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ObamaCare Has Failed Iowans
Santorum: Mitt Romney Hit the Reset Button in Puerto Rico
Iowa House Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Des Moines, IA – In the midst of an economic crisis that has left millions of Americans unemployed, the Obama Democrats decided to pursue the holy grail of their legislative agenda: government takeover of health care. Today, we solemnly remember President Obama signing into law the takeover of one-sixth of America's economy.

The Obama Democrats made many promises; they were successively broken. Promises of decreased healthcare costs for families, promises of keeping the health insurance individuals want, promises of a "bending curve" on government spending on health care.

What American families have been subjected to is the largest increase in healthcare costs in the last 6 years, now averaging $15,073 per family, thousands of people being dropped from their coverage, and a CBO estimate that ObamaCare will cost nearly DOUBLE what it was originally projected to cost.

Chairman A.J. Spiker stated today, "ObamaCare is classic liberal legislation. It costs too much, spends too much, regulates too much, violates individual and religious liberties, puts unchecked power in the hands of faceless, nameless bureaucrats, requires supposedly free people to purchase a good or service and doesn't fix the fundamental problem of rising costs of healthcare for American families.

"It is obvious why President Obama and his Democrats aren't out campaigning on their most significant legislative achievement. Polls show that 72% of Americans think ObamaCare is unconstitutional and a supermajority wants the individual mandate repealed immediately. When millions of Americans are hurting, taking over healthcare and spending trillions of taxpayer dollars is not a winning campaign issue.

"Mandates and boards of bureaucrats are not the answer to our healthcare problems. Thankfully, we have Iowa leaders like Rep. Tom Latham and Rep. Steve King who are working to repeal this massive takeover of healthcare and to replace it with a market-based solution to rising healthcare costs.

"Iowa voters remember today that during a recession, the Obama Democrats decided to pass a bill has hurt small businesses and made health care more expensive for families."

Santorum: Mitt Romney Hit the Reset Button in Puerto Rico

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:30 AM PDT

In a conference call with bloggers yesterday Rick Santorum criticized Mitt Romney as being the "etch a sketch" candidate on Obamacare having advocated for a national mandate in 2009 and now saying he's against it. He said Romney is "uniquely disqualified" to take on President Obama on health care reform because Romney's plan in Massachusetts served as a model for Obamacare and because he still defends it today.

He said that Obamacare, like Romneycare, will bring about a standardization of care. He noted that's not a bad thing in some circumstances when the illness is well known and there is an accepted protocol for treatment, but not for diseases such as Lyme Disease when so much is not known. He believes that health care should be market-driven and not dictated by the state.

Santorum then said that Mitt Romney while campaigning in Puerto Rico hit the reset button. While Rick Santorum when asked said that Puerto Rico should recognize English as an official language upon acceptance as a state knowing it would be unpopular, he noted that Mitt Romney gave a different answer. Santorum said Romney told the Puerto Rican Republicans that he had no problem accepting Puerto Rico as a state without accepting English as an official language, but when he was Governor he opposed bilingual education in Massachusetts. Santorum said, "I don't say one thing in the states and then another in our territories" claiming that Romney would say anything in order to win delegates.

You can listen to audio of the conference call here or in the player above.

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Iowa House Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:51 AM PDT

The Iowa House is considering House File 2435 which would fund the Department of Public Health, the Department of Human Services, as well as, other health and human services activities. State Representative Annette Sweeney (R-Alden) has introduced an amendment (H-8213) entitled the "Whole Woman's Health Funding Priorities Act." This amendment is co-sponsored by State Representatives Tom Shaw (R-Laurens), Dwayne Alons (R-Hull) and Kim Pearson (R-Pleasant Hill). It enjoys broad support within the Iowa House.

What it would basically accomplish is to direct funds to organizations and services that provide comprehensive health care for women. This would keep taxpayer dollars from being diverted to organizations, like Planned Parenthood, who do abortions as they do not provide comprehensive health care for women.

The primary language in the amendment stripping money away from abortionists reads:

1. Subject to any applicable requirements of federal law, regulations, or guidelines, any expenditures or grants of public funds for family planning services by the state made by a department shall be made in the following order of priority:
a. To public entities.
b. To nonpublic hospitals and federally qualified health centers.
c. To rural health clinics.
d. To nonpublic health providers that have as their primary purpose the provision of the primary health care services specified in 42 U.S.C. § 254b(b)(1).

2. A department shall not enter into a contract with, or make a grant to, any entity that performs abortions that are not federally qualified abortions or maintains or operates a facility where abortions that are not federally qualified abortions are performed.

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