“ Yes. Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and is already increasing the cost of healthcare. Obamacare should be repealed and replaced with commonsense healthcare reforms that will lower costs for all Americans. We can get healthcare to affordable levels by enacting tort reform in our legal system, by allowing insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, by encouraging health savings accounts that give consumers the opportunity to find better deals, and by taking other steps that create competition. Insurance plans should be portable so that you don't lose access to healthcare if you lose your job. There are many other reforms that will lower healthcare costs for all Americans, but the first step is repealing Obamacare. ”

“ Yes, I would fight to immediately repeal Obamacare. Obamacare is an overreach by the federal government and another government mandate which flies in the face of the limited federal role the Founding Fathers envisioned for our system of government. Obamacare is a response to the legitimate issue that some Americans -- between 5 and 10 percent -- lack health care coverage. However, it is a wrong, typically "bigfoot" government response. We should target solutions to the 5 - 10 percent who do not have health insurance rather than risk wrecking the system for the 90 - 95 percent who do have insurance. I support free market solutions to bring health care costs down, including tort (lawsuit) reform, allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines like we do with auto insurance - which promotes competition and lowers costs - and we should permit people in all states to purchase catastrophic coverage. Some states, like New York for example, do not allow the purchase of catastrophic coverage. Obamacare will be an enormously costly government program that will impose on at least 90 percent of our population a mandate that it does not need. ”

“ Yes. If elected to Congress, I would vote to repeal Obamacare and instead replace it with state-based, market oriented solutions that would make healthcare both affordable and accessible. I believe that Obamacare will prove to be both unworkable and unaffordable and should be repealed as it was neither read nor understood by members of Congress before its passage. It is worthy to note that I have been consistent in my opposition to Obamacare since the passage of the legislation. In March of 2010, I wrote to then Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asking him to join in the suit contesting the constitutionality of Obamacare (see that letter here: www.tinyurl.com/c67maea).

Obamacare is one of the biggest impediments to job growth in recent history causing vast numbers of businesses to postpone hiring as a result of its costs and uncertainty and, in turn, prolonging the economic downturn and therefore costing additional jobs.

I believe the additional 21 new taxes that will be implemented in connection with this legislation will be harmful to businesses and families and is not the right remedy for an ailing economy. Our nation simply cannot afford the 800 billion dollars in new taxes that Obamacare will create over the next 10 years. Coupled with this enormous economic burden, Obamacare would take 500 billion dollars out of our already underfunded Medicare program. Improving the health care system is critical; however doing so with unaffordable policies is not the answer. ”

“ I would vote to repeal Obamacare and work to replace it with a solution that addresses the rising costs of health care while using solutions driven by market based forces. Repealing and replacing Obamcare can be accomplished with some initial reforms that have bipartisan support – legal or tort reform to reduce redundant testing and costly defensive medicine, allowing the sale of insurance across state lines to create cost competition and streamlining of regulations that delay new technologies and treatments. ”