Boehner: “Problem With #ObamaCare Isn’t Just the Website, It’s the Whole Law”

NOVEMBER 3, 2013 | VIEW ONLINE In this week’s Speaker Alert, we take a look at ongoing problems with the president’s health care law (higher premiums, canceled plans, broken promises), why Democrats are pushing for higher taxes (again), and a Congressional celebration of both a “man of the House” and the best friend America ever had. IT’S NOT JUST THE WEBSITE “It’s the whole law”: “The problem with ObamaCare isn’t just the website,” says Speaker Boehner. “It’s the whole law.” Boehner says the president sold his health care law on “a pack of lofty promises,” but “what he said simply wasn’t true.” “Consumers are suffering from sticker shock”: Families and workers across the country are paying higher premiums because of ObamaCare. “You don’t get to keep your premiums”: “It’s not the truth,” one woman told KING5 local news. “You don't get to keep your premiums. You don't get to keep anything” under ObamaCare. “Whopper”: President Obama’s famous pledge – that if you like your doctor or your health care plan, you can keep it – has been deemed a “whopper.” See what Republicans were sayingabout this promise as long as four years ago. “He really didn’t mean it”: Check out and RT our new “Vine,” highlighting a CBS News report that says  “more than two million Americans have been told they cannot renew their current insurance policies…” “System is down”: At the exact same time that Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was telling Congress the ObamaCare “website has never crashed,” the site was inaccessible. MORE FROM SPEAKER.GOV Honoring Winston Churchill: “Winston Spencer Churchill was the best friend the United States ever had,” said Speaker Boehner at a ceremony dedicating a bust of Churchill in the U.S. Capitol. Watch Boehner here, see photos of the event here, and watch the special performance of ‘Stand By Me’ by The Who frontman Roger Daltrey here. “Winston Churchill returns to the United States Capitol”: Speaker Boehner’s remarks were punctuated by audio from an address Churchill delivered to a joint session of Congress in 1941.Watch and listen here. “Man of the House”: House and Senate leaders, along with Presidents Clinton and Obama, celebrated the life of former Speaker Thomas S. Foley at a ceremony last week. See photos and video from the event here. Democrats’ tax hike obsession: As budget talks get underway today, Congressional Democrats are wasting no time in launching another push for tax hikes that will hurt the economy and make it harder to create jobs.