Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Hobby Lobby case. This business is simply asking that owners' rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act are respected. In an ironic bit of timing, the administration just effectively waived the March 31 deadline for signing up for an ObamaCare plan. Despite President Obama's continuous extra-legal rewriting of his health care law, he remains unwilling to accommodate religious businessowners who are providing health care coverage for employees. Yesterday also brought a news report from North Carolina of 200 substitute teachers having their hours cut in order to comply with ObamaCare mandates. The teachers' plight is not unique. As Republicans noted during the original debate over this law, putting the government in charge of 1/7th of the economy is a recipe for disaster. We need to repeal ObamaCare and enact health reform that empowers patients, not bureaucrats. ____________________
On the recordMarch 26, 2014
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