The Heritage Foundation Wrote Obamacare, Now Sending Women Out to Protest Obamacare

Obamacare began in 1989 as Republicans looked for unconstitutional, big government solutions to beat the Democrats to the power grab of healthcare control. The Republicans worked with the Heritage Foundation to come up with the plan that would be introduced as the alternative to Hillarycare in 1994.

The Heritage Plan included tax credits--which is the primary difference between their plan and Obamacare. The Heritage Foundation, claiming to be conservative and Constitutional, planned their system around the federal mandate, in which the federal government forces Americans to purchase healthcare insurance.

A few years later, Governor Mitt Romney pushed this plan in Massachusetts and to this day won't apologize for any of it including the mandate. Romney is on record saying mandates are good and conservative--even though it clearly conflicts with the Constitution.

The New York Post reports:

In fact, we have already seen the start of this process in Massachusetts, where Mitt Romney’s health care reforms were nearly identical to President Obama’s. Romney’s reforms increased the demand for health care but did nothing to expand the supply of physicians. In fact, by cracking down on insurance premiums, Massachusetts pushed insurers to reduce their payments to providers, making it less worthwhile for doctors to expand their practices. As a result, the average wait to get an appointment with a doctor grew from 33 days to over 55 days.

So what is the Heritage Foundation doing today? They have organized a group of women to go to Washington, DC, to protest Obamacare.

Co-hosted by the National Review Institute

Religious liberty has become an early casualty in Obamacare’s collision course with liberty. Obamacare’s anti-conscience mandate forces employers to provide health insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization -– regardless of religious or moral objections to such services.

The mandate’s coercion of employers is a serious affront to religious liberty and a warning sign of the problems inherent in a centralized health care system. Conflicts between individual liberty and the dictates of government bureaucrats on deeply personal health care decisions will only increase as implementation of what Obamacare deems to be an “essential benefits” package continues.

Join us as an expert panel discusses the specific religious liberty violations of the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate and the health care law’s profound threat to personal freedom.

More About the Speakers

The Honorable Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY)U.S. House of Representatives

Followed by a panel discussion with
Hadley HeathPolicy Analyst, Independent Women’s Forum

Maggie KarnerDirector, Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod Life and Health Ministries

Pia de SoleniDiotima Consulting, LLC

Lori WindhamSenior Counsel, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

Co-hosted byJennifer MarshallDirector, DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, The Heritage Foundation

Kate O'BeirnePresident, National Review Institute

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Jennifer Marshall

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So the Heritage Foundation suddenly cares about freedoms despite the fact they wrote most of the Obamacare legislation--including the mandate that robs Americans of their freedom to choose while creating more big government. Do you see why the Heritage Foundation isn't this conservative think tank that should be trusted? In 1994, the Heritage Plan was good. In 2012, it's bad. I doubt the Heritage Foundation would be marching in the streets had Republicans pushed this through as first intended.