Joe Pitts: “Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius seemed shocked to find that placing new mandates on health insurers…”

“Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius seemed shocked to find that placing new mandates on health insurers leads to increased costs. After press reports last week indicated that insurers are raising premiums because of ObamaCare, the Secretary wrote a letter to the health insurance association which is nothing more than bullying. The Secretary called the measures onto the carpet, insisting that there would be "zero tolerance for misinformation and unjustified rate increases." Why are these rate increases unjustified? Because government bureaucrats thought that all the new rules and mandates would only lead to increases of 1 or 2 percent. Now insurers functioning in the real world are increasing premiums by up to 9 percent. Bullying and threats aren't going to make ObamaCare work. This unprecedented expansion of government power is only making health care more expensive. The solution is to repeal this law and replace it with real market-based reforms that take power away from unelected government bureaucrats.”