Brad Knott: “I thank Congressman Haridopolos for hosting this Special Order hour on one of the critical issues that we face as a…”

“I thank Congressman Haridopolos for hosting this Special Order hour on one of the critical issues that we face as a nation and have faced for the better part of 20 years now. I am referring, of course, to ObamaCare, a deceptively named bill, the Affordable Care Act, which has, of course, been a disaster for Americans all over the country. Before it was passed, Democrats essentially allowed big insurance companies and Federal bureaucrats to craft an extremely regulated patchwork of rules and cloudy regulations to enrich themselves at the expense of the American patient and American physician. They then jammed it through Congress without a single Republican vote, ushering in a new era of high costs, restricted access, and lower quality healthcare. As is the case far too often, this law is now harming precisely the groups of people it was designed to assist. At its core, ObamaCare is a redistributionist program that empowers a public and private bureaucracy rather than patients and physicians. In various medical fields that are not part of the ObamaCare web, the harmful effects of its policy have not been seen since the law's passage. For example, over the past decade, the cost of outpatient services rose between 80 and 100 percent on average. Prescription drugs are up, at times, 200 percent.”