Obamacare Resistance Panel Coming Next Week

In a continuing effort to lead the conservative opposition to President Obama's health insurance overreach, the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire will host a forum next week to identify which actions the next N.H. Legislature should take to continue the fight to repeal or amend Obamacare.

“In 2011 and 2012, the RLCNH was at the forefront of promoting successful legislation resisting Obamacare and nullifying its effects on New Hampshire's citizens,” said Carolyn McKinney, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “We hope to again lead the effort in the next session to make sure New Hampshire continues to resist the law and also sends a strong message to Congress that this is a law that must be repealed or amended, and that's what this forum is about.”

The forum, “Resisting Obamacare: State and Federal Responses to an Unjust Law,” will be held at 6 p.m., July 19, in the Humanities Room of the Library at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. The forum is co-sponsored with Cornerstone Policy Research, First Principles, and FRCAction.

Panelists for event are N.H. House Speaker William O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, who will discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and its implications for New Hampshire; State Rep. Andrew Manuse, R-Derry, also executive secretary of the RLCNH, who will discuss New Hampshire's nullification efforts in the current session and what needs to be done to keep up the opposition effort in the next biennium; and Connie Mackey, president of FRCAction PAC, who will discuss the next steps that need to be taken at the federal level to repeal or amend Obamacare.

William Fahey, president of Thomas More College, will give an introductory speech.

In the 2011-12 session, the Legislature passed and the RLCNH supported HB 1297, a bill to prohibit the creation of a state health insurance exchange and hinder the federal government's ability to implement the law in New Hampshire; SB 148, a bill that nullifies the individual mandate; and HB 601, a bill that creates an oversight committee to control the activities of state department officials as they interact with federal agents on Obamacare's implementation.

In the 2013-2014 session, the RLCNH is recommending bills to clarify that SB 148 also applies to the court's new interpretation that the mandate is a tax; to reject any expansion of the state's Medicaid program; to resist implementation of a partnership health insurance exchange with the federal government and block any funding for it; and to eliminate health insurance mandates or at least make it legal for insurance companies to offer a mandate-free insurance package.

Earlier this week, RLCNH Chairman outlining why Obamacare will be a state and federal election issue.