Republican House congressmen have passed a key piece of legislation proposed by the Obama Administration, betraying conservatives again.

“The 21st Century Cures Act” is a healthcare initiative is designed to make a repeal of Obamacare more difficult. Yes, American voters want Obamacare gone, but it may now be replaced under similar conditions with a different name.

In a press release, the Obama Administration painted the bill as “critically important legislation.”

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Here’s a selection from the statement:

Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 34, the 21st Century Cures Act This critically important legislation will get states the resources they need to fight the heroin and prescription opioid epidemic. It invests the $1 billion the President has repeatedly said is necessary to help communities that have seen far too many overdoses. It also responds to the Vice President’s call for a Moonshot in cancer research by investing $1.8 billion in new resources to transform cancer research and accelerate discoveries. Plus, it invests nearly $3 billion to continue the President’s signature biomedical research initiatives, the BRAIN and Precision Medicine Initiatives, over the next decade to tackle diseases like Alzheimer’s and create new research models to find cures and better target treatments.

Huge investment for research initiatives and an epidemic of addiction sounds important. Who will pay for it, though?

Will the spending sources be something voters can approve of, specifically the conservative voters these congressmen claim to represent? You remember them, right congressmen? They’re the people who gave you your jobs.

Conservative Review reports:

Common sense dictates that it is a noble goal to fight opioid abuse, cure cancer, and tackle Alzheimer’s. Then why would the leading conservatives in the House and Heritage Action for America oppose the bill? Because it sucks. Congress has so many priorities and great-sounding programs that it wants to fund with your tax dollars, yet they flat out refuse to pay for this new funding by cutting other spending. The national debt is approaching a staggering $20 trillion, yet Republicans — supposedly the party of fiscal responsibility — is pushing a bill that will pile further mountains of debt on future generations. […] So a health care bill loaded with a special interest provision and zero spending offsets garner the support of the establishment Republican leadership and a bulk of the Republican caucus. This should make conservatives very afraid that the weak-kneed House and Senate Republicans don’t have the stomach for a flat out repeal of Obamacare — with no replace bill.

So why rush the bill through now? Wouldn’t republicans want the involvement of a republican presidency?

Republican members of the House were unwilling to wait just one month in order to help craft a more conservative version, rather than give the people what we already know they don’t want.

The act is just another leftist proposal meant to stand in when Obamacare is inevitably repealed.

Establishment republicans in the House who let it happen betrayed us either through spinelessness or their own unwillingness to vote the interests of people they can only misrepresent.





