Ander Crenshaw Pounds Away on Fourth Anniversary of Obamacare

With the fourth anniversary of President Barack Obama signing his federal health-care proposal into law, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., took aim at it on Saturday.

Four years ago, the president signed Obamacare into law, and Americans have seen nothing but broken promises since. If you like your health care, youll be able to keep it, he told the nation, while also claiming families would save thousands of dollars on health-care premiums, Crenshaw said. The real picture: individuals and families have been turned away from their insurance; premiums and deductibles have increased; and weve seen strings of delays as well as problems with the programs official website.

My record against this ill-conceived law is crystal clear: I opposed it from the start, voting Nov. 7, 2009, against the bill and for the Republican alternative, Crenshaw continued. Today, I stand as strongly against Obamacare as I did then, voting to dismantle, defund, and repeal it more than 50 times since.

That record includes a successful effort to deny the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) additional funding for the implementation of Obamacare, Crenshaw added. As chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, I led the effort to write legislation to hold the IRS accountable for its use of taxpayer dollars. Thanks to our subcommittees determination, in fiscal year 2014, this agency is provided $1.6 billion below the budget request and $526 million below the fiscal year 2012 level. With recent revelations of targeting Americans based on political belief, the IRS has to clean up its act. Now, with this language signed into law, the agency cannot use additional funds for the implementation of Obamacare. And, among other measures, it is expressly prohibited from using funds to target Americans based on political belief.

My bottom line: Americans deserve true choice and cost-effective health care that wont harm the economy, raise taxes, or bankrupt our childrens and grandchildrens futures, Crenshaw said in conclusion. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has not delivered the results America needs -- more choice and higher quality of care without damage to the economy. Thats the direction I will continue to move in on behalf of my constituents and all Americans.