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Karl Rove has a piece at FoxNews titled "Republicans must resist game of chicken with president over ObamaCare." In it, the establishment's favorite political guru dispenses bad advice to grassroots conservatives, based on the assumption that defunding the health care law on a spending bill "won't work." He's wrong about that.
Today is an important day - we're one giant step closer to reversing the government takeover of our health care.The deadline for states to begin setting up their own, state-run health care exchange under ObamaCare was today, December 14th. This deadline was a crucial trial for ObamaCare, and the verdict is in -- 26 states, a majority of the union, are currently declining to set up an exchange.Below is a map of how each state stands on the exchanges:
Forty-six national organizations, fighting to reverse the government takeover of health care, have signed the following letter, urging Republicans at all levels to stand firm against ObamaCare's health care "exchanges" and to take decisive action to resist the recent IRS power grab that threatens to impose exchanges on all 50 states in violation of law.
ObamaCare needs to go, and FreedomWorks has a Five Point Plan for Full Repeal. One of best ways states can stop ObamaCare's unprecedented intrusion into the lives and pockets of their citizens is to block the creation of health care exchanges.
As the third part of our series “How to Beat ObamaCare”, FreedomWorks’s own health care policy expert Dean Clancy sat down with Wisconsin State Senator & certified pediatric nurse practitioner Leah Vukmir to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare. In just thirty minutes, Dean & Leah discussed repealing and replacing ObamaCare with true patient-centered care, how Wisconsin and other states are handling the health care exchanges, and how to take control from the government and give it back to consumers.