Kingwood TEA Party Issues Forum

Featuring Chip Roy, Director of Center for Tenth Amendment Action at Texas Public Policy Foundation

Chip recently served as the First Assistant Attorney General of Texas. Prior to that, he was Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, and he has served as senior counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Co Hosted by FreedomWorks and Texas Public Policy Foundation

Texas Public Policy Foundation Has Been Leading The Effort To Ensure That Congress Fully Repeals Obamacare

Synopsis: As Congress continues debating healthcare reform, the Texas Public Policy Foundation has been leading the effort to ensure that Congress fully repeals Obamacare—its taxes and subsidies, its onerous insurance regulations and mandates, and its misguided and costly expansion of Medicaid—while also promoting the importance of empowering patients and respecting states by lowering costs, increasing quality of care, and maximizing choice and competition.

TPPF - Repeal and Respect: Key Principles For Renewing American Healthcare

Synopsis: As Congress prepares to debate healthcare reform, TPPF published a primer on three guiding principles for how to properly approach the issue, while also respecting states, patients, and consumers.

TPPF - Repeal Obamacare and Respect The States

Synopsis: Congress is missing the mark by focusing on coverage numbers and partially repealing the law. The GOP proposal maintains Obamacare’s crushing insurance regulations and mandates, leaves the Medicaid expansion intact, and replaces federal subsidies with a new costly federal entitlement in the form of a refundable tax credit. Congress should make good on their promise to fully repeal Obamacare and respect states by block-granting Medicaid and promoting market-centered reforms.

TPPF - Yes, 51 Senators Can Fully Repeal Obamacare

Synopsis: Congressional leadership is being misleading about the ability to fully repeal Obamacare using budget reconciliation. It can be done. Congress just needs to find the will.

TPPF - Full Analysis of the GOP Healthcare Bill

Synopsis: The substance of the House’s partial repeal and replace bill.

TPPF - House Republicans’ Health Care Bill By the Numbers

Synopsis: Key numbers associated with the House bill in the aftermath of the CBO report.

TPPF - Comparison Between Obamacare and the House GOP Proposal

Synopsis: A visual representation of the key policy features shared by both the House bill and Obamacare.

National Review - The Republican Healthcare Crack-Up

The failure of Republicans’ first attempt is no excuse to give up on moving health care in a conservative direction.