Yesterday, President Obama released a health care proposal that represents a doubling down by Democrats in their determination to defy the will of the American people and pass a government takeover of health care.  Their latest iteration of health care “reform” manages to “take the worst of both the House and Senate bills and combine them into something more destructive,” as the Wall Street Journal put it in an editorial today.   

As House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said in a press briefing today:

Americans are still asking ‘where are the jobs?‘  Yet the Democrats’ new health care proposal increases the Senate bill’s tax on employers who do not provide coverage from $750 to $2,000 per employee.   CBO and numerous health care economists have made it clear that such a provision will reduce wages and eliminate jobs.  Republicans have offered common-sense reforms to help small businesses create jobs.  That’s what the American people want, not the job-killing agenda that Democrats keep trying to jam down their throats.