_______________________, read first time and referred to Committee on
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States
Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).
Whereas, The United States Congress passed and the
President signed into law the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (Pub. L. No. 111-148) on
March 23, 2010;
Whereas, This act, as amended by the Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act (Pub. L. No. 111-152),
comprises America's comprehensive federal health care
reform, commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act
(ACA);
Whereas, The result of this law will be to create a
government takeover of the health care industry that will
increase health care costs, raise taxes, hurt senior citizens,
destroy jobs, reduce the quality of care that Americans will
receive, restrict consumer choice, limit individuals' access to
private health insurance, and reduce the ability of American
companies to compete;
Whereas, The ACA will constrain the freedom of
individuals to choose their own doctors and will interfere
with individuals' ability to make personal health care
decisions;
Whereas, A single-payer health care system, which forces patients to enroll in a one-size-fits-all plan with rich benefits and weak cost sharing, will cause spending for health care to
escalate and policymakers to ration care as a
cost-containment measure;
Whereas, According to the Congressional Budget Office,
the ACA could cause millions of Americans who receive
health insurance through their employers to lose their health
insurance coverage; in addition, the Congressional Budget
Office reports that premiums in the individual and small
group markets may substantially increase;
Whereas, The Department of Health and Human Services
will dictate the benefits insurers must offer and their fees;
Whereas, In view of the fact that physicians lose money
servicing government patients on Medicare and Medicaid,
the ACA will exacerbate this problem by further reducing
Medicare and Medicaid fees to doctors and hospitals and
will discourage persons from entering the health care field;
Whereas, The ACA will increase taxes on employers who
do not offer adequate insurance and will increase taxes on
investment income, which in turn will reduce capital
available for job expansion, reduce economic growth, and
result in fewer jobs for Americans;
Whereas, The ACA will harm seniors by making cuts from
the Medicare budget and causing seniors to lose the health
insurance coverage they currently possess;
Whereas, The provisions of the ACA will add to the
national debt; and
Whereas, The provisions of the ACA aimed at reducing
health care spending address the symptoms of the cost of
health care rather than the root causes of growth in health
care spending: Therefore,
SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly rejects the Affordable Care Act and calls for the repeal of the act by the Congress of the United States.