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Sick of Obamacare? We've Got Something Different
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:38 PM :: 3321 Views :: Health Care

Sick of Obamacare? We've Got Something Different

by Amy Payne, Heritage Foundation, December 4, 2013 

The salesman in chief is back on the road.

President Obama will be spending the month of December once again explaining Obamacare to the American people. Because if he explains it one more time, maybe people will like it?

We expect these holiday greetings will go over about as well as a three-year-old fruitcake. Obama’s been selling the law for about that long, yet public opinion has turned against it.

The President said yesterday that he’s “learned not to make wild promises” anymore about the rollout of the health care law. But it’s clear he’s not going to stop making wild claims about Obamacare—and Obamacare’s critics.

Who Wants Repeal?

As we enjoy the holiday season, the President and congressional Democrats intend to warn the country that conservatives want to repeal Obamacare.

But according to a new poll, so do 50 percent of likely U.S. voters.

That’s right—there is broad support for repealing Obamacare and starting over with health care reform. So what happens then?

What Happens After Repeal?

President Obama and his allies have made no secret of their plans: They cast Obamacare skeptics as The Ones Who Want to Take You Back to the Health Care Dark Ages.

Unfortunately for Obama’s public relations push, conservatives have no such intention. Repealing Obamacare—and saving Americans from the law’s woes—is only the beginning of what we would like to see in American health care. It would merely get this monstrosity out of the way so that truly helpful reforms could begin.

Obama said yesterday that critics just want to “go back to the status quo” and that they “haven’t presented an alternative.”

This is laughable. Obamacare is hardly the only game in town. Heritage experts—and many other policy researchers—have been offering health reform ideas for decades. Heritage has specifically outlined an alternative to Obamacare.

So while the White House spends December selling Americans the same old stale (and failing) ideas, we’ll be looking forward (to borrow an Obama buzzword). We’ll be highlighting the ways Congress could do health care reform better—and what it would mean to you and your family.

Forward this to someone who would want to hear about real alternatives to Obamacare. They can sign up for the Morning Bell here.

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