Ben Carson Will Back Congressional Candidates Opposed to Obamacare

Dr. Ben Carson burst on the national scene last year when he criticized President Barack Obamas health care law at the National Prayer Breakfast. Carson is generating buzz as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016 and is currently leading the American Legacy PACs Save Our Healthcare project.

Carson is running petitions against the health care law and has gathered around 140,000 signatures, and he showcased his work in an email to supporters sent out late on Tuesday night. Calling his actions a national citizens effort, which I am leading, to hold Washington accountable and replace Obamacare with patient-centered reforms, Carson noted that one of his supporters was a former patient of his that he spoke with via phone last week.

As we recounted our brief time together, it reinforced something that seems to unfortunately get lost in the whole political debate over health care: this is about our health, and the health of those we love and care about, Carson wrote. Nothing is more personal. Put aside the discussion about taxes and mandates for a moment. The underlying and irreconcilable flaw of Obamacare is that it forces us to surrender our personal decision-making power to a distant bureaucracy, which however well-intentioned, will neither save us money nor provide the care we deserve.

Carson left no room for doubt that he intends to be extremely active against Obamacare, including on the campaign trail for congressional candidates.

It is our sincere prayer that through the Save Our Healthcare call to action, we can recruit every American concerned about the future of health care, and convince them that a new and better direction is possible, Carson insisted. Over the course of the year, we will lay out this new direction, step by step, so we can build trust with the American people along the way and then its up to us to elect people to Congress who will implement our vision.