Roy Blunt: “I wish to speak about the same topic as my good friend from Oklahoma. I was at the Supreme Court listening to the…”

“I wish to speak about the same topic as my good friend from Oklahoma. I was at the Supreme Court listening to the arguments on this case, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, and another case involving a Pennsylvania company which I wish to speak about as well. Of course, this case, as the Senator from Oklahoma has pointed out, starts with the Affordable Care Act and what many people and I believe the Supreme Court will decide is a blatant violation in religious freedom in the way that act would be applied. There is nothing in the act that deals with the rule which sets those big fines up or establishes how those fines would be collected--or, in fact, nothing in the act which specifies specific things that have to be in the so-called model plan. That all is up to the administration, all up to the Department of HHS--unless the Court or the Congress does what needs to be done here, which is to say there are certain boundaries you can't cross. The so-called Affordable Health Care Act--which seems to be providing neither better health care nor better affordability--was signed into law 4 years ago this week. In that 4 years we have seen disastrous effects of the health care act. One of those is the workplace effect where more and more people work less and less. Why do they work less and less? Because for the first time ever the government has said businesses and people had an obligation to provide insurance for somebody who worked more than 30 hours.…”