Deroy Murdock devotes his latest column to the implications of Tuesday’s Ohio referendum results for the future of ObamaCare.
By a vote of 61 to 39 percent on Tuesday, energized Democrats and their Big Labor comrades rejected Ohio GOP Governor John Kasich’s limits on union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining privileges. But this solid liberal win could not prevent the Left’s simultaneous defeat on ObamaCare. By a much wider 66 to 34 percent, these same union-heavy voters chose to immunize Ohioans from the individual mandate that is the beating heart of ObamaCare.
This dramatic rebuke illustrates just how deeply Americans disdain the 2,801-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Conservatives should use this huge victory to cure the ObamaCare infection before it further sickens America. The GOP House quickly should adopt and transmit to the Senate a bill to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a pro-patient, market-friendly substitute.
Murdock discussed his opposition to ObamaCare during a November 2010 presentation at N.C. State University and during an interview with Carolina Journal Radio/CarolinaJournal.tv.
