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In its latest Issue Brief, The Heritage Foundation makes the case why full repeal of ObamaCare is necessary. Heritage explains that the problems of ObamaCare run deeper than the issues that were argued before the Supreme Court (the individual mandate and Medicaid). 

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.  

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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) writes in Politico that the "debt crisis is, above all, a health care spending crisis. About one-quarter of all federal government spending goes to health care — a percentage that would rise dramatically under the president’s new health care law." 

Ryan writes PPACA is "a 2,700-page mistake that has compounded the worst problems in American health care, weakened our economy and accelerated out-of-control government spending. The law’s many restrictions and mandates have jeopardized access to affordable, quality health care for millions of Americans."  He continues by stating that the "only sure way to control costs is to reform the government’s role in health care at every level by introducing choice and competition."  That means that the solution to the nation's debt problem is to repeal PPACA and replace it with a system that relies on patients acting as informed consumers.

Read Rep. Ryan's article here.  

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D4PC Morning Rounds: Thursday, July 21, 2011

Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.

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"Government Mandates Make Health Savings More Elusive", Forbes.com 

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From Fox News:

"When the GOP-led House voted in January to repeal President Obama's health care law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wouldn't even take up the measure in his chamber and he scorned Republicans for wasting time on 'symbolic votes.'

"But after Congress struck a last-minute budget deal Friday night to avert a government shutdown, Reid will have to eat his words."

Continue reading on FoxNews.com. 

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Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, wrote an editorial recently which appeared in Investor's Business Daily with her take on Mitt Romney's plan to sign an executive order effectively extending an Obamacare waiver to every state.

"Mitt Romney may have waived goodbye to the GOP nomination with his assertion that he could start unraveling ObamaCare by issuing an executive order as soon as he moved into the White House.

"Simply put, executive orders cannot contradict statutory law. Waivers are not a solution and might well detract from the ultimate goal of repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with a truly free market alternative that puts patients — not bureaucrats — in charge of their health care."

Read her full editorial here. 

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