Health Care Compact (HB 227) Passes out of OH House Committee

From State Rep. Wes Retherford --

Health Care Compact Bill Passes From Committee, Awaits Vote In House

Proposal will give Ohio more control over costs and health care outcomes

April 02, 2014

Columbus - State Representative Wes Retherford (R-Hamilton) has announced that House Bill 227—legislation that would enter Ohio into a multi-state health care compact—has passed from the House State and Local Government Committee.

A multi-state health care compact would allow Ohio to have full control over the federal health care dollars spent within the state, which in Ohio alone would equate to $35 billion annually. 

Additionally, states within the compact have the authority to craft their own health care systems and regulations to best suit their individual needs, rather than relying on centralized control by the federal government.

“In terms of health care, I do not believe that the current ‘one size fits all’ ideology used by the federal government works,” said Rep. Retherford, who jointly sponsored House Bill 227 with State Representative Terry Boose (R-Norwalk). “Instead, I think that each state deserves to decide what is needed. Ohio knows what’s best for Ohioans. That is the bottom line and that is what we are trying to do with this bill.”

Eight states have passed health care compact legislation. The compact would go into effect with the approval of the U.S. Congress.

House Bill 227 now awaits a vote by the full House.

Action Alert: Stop Obamacare in Ohio - Calls Needed for the Health Care Compact (HB 227)

This Action Alert is for any Ohio resident who does not want the federal government controlling their health care decisions, is paying higher insurance premiums, has recently lost health insurance, can no longer use your regular doctor, has lost their job or had your work hours reduced due to the implementation of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act.

As posted here before, the Health Care Compact (HB 227) is currently in the OH House State & Local Government Committee.  The Health Care Compact was introduced by OH Rep. Wes Retherford & Rep. Terry Boose.

Proponent testimony in support of the Health Care Compact (HB 227) was given in February.  (To read the testimony click here.  Then scroll down to Feb 18, 2014, open the menu and scroll down to HB 227.)

Opponents of health care freedom in Ohio are trying to stop the Health Care Compact (HB 227) and will be giving opponent testimony in the OH House State & Local Government Committee this coming Tuesday.  It is important that we let the committee members know Ohio wants health care freedom.  

How you can help!

Please sign the petition in support of the Health Care Compact to show Ohio legislators you support true health care freedom in Ohio.  After you sign it please forward it your friends, family and social network.

Click Here To Sign Petition 

Please contact the below members of the OH House State & Local Government Committee and encourage them to support the HCC and putting Ohio residents back in control of the decision making process regarding our healthcare.

State & Local Government Committee

GOP Members

Rep. Terry Blair (R)  Chairman

Phone: (614) 466-6504 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Marlene Anielski (R) Vice-Chair

Phone: (614) 644-6041 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Richard Adams (R) Co-Sponsor

Phone: (614) 466-8114 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Terry Boose (R) Sponsor

Phone: (614) 466-9628 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Tim Brown (R)

Phone: (614) 466-8104 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Tony Burkley (R)

Phone: (614) 644-5091

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Rex Damschroder (R)

Phone: (614) 466-1374 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Cheryl Grossman (R)

Phone: (614) 466-9690 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Bob Hackett (R)

Phone: (614) 466-1470 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Brian Hill (R)

Phone: (614) 644-6014 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Ron Maag (R) Co-Sponsor

Phone: (614) 644-6023 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Ron Young (R) Co-Sponsor

Phone: (614) 644-6074 

Contact: Click Here

Democrat Members

Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D) Minority Leader

Phone: (614) 466-2004 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Ronald Gerberry (D)

Phone: (614) 466-6107 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Matt Lundy (D)

Phone: (614) 644-5076

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Bill Patmon (D)

Phone: (614) 466-7954 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. John Rogers (D)

Phone: (614) 466-7251 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Michael Sheehy (D)

Phone: (614) 466-1418 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Stephen Slesnick (D)

Phone: (614) 466-8030 

Contact: Click Here

States Lining Up to Retake Control of Healthcare

With more and more states looking for ways out of the failed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Health Care Compact is the one option that not only lets them remove themselves from the chains of the PPACA, but will also give them the fiscal freedom and legislative liberty to address their health care concerns and costs at the state level.

Currently 8 states (UT, TX, OK, MO, IN, AL, SC & GA) have passed the Health Care Compact, and it has been introduced in 9 more states (WA, CO, KS, LA, TN, MI, FL, NH & OH). 

Ohio is hoping to be the ninth state to pass the Health Care Compact, Ohio HB 227 which is making its way through the OH House State & Local Government Committee and will hopefully be on the House Floor for a full vote.

From the Daily Caller --

The states cannot rely on Washington to correct the travesty that is Obamacare. After forty-seven votes to repeal or reform the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Congress has not been able to even hold Health and Human Services (HHS) accountable for the website folly, including over $1 billion spent for federal exchange and data services contract awards.

From the opaque political proceedings, to passage by desperate arm-twisting and bribes, to the exceptions granted favored groups including members of Congress and staff, to the eighteen unilateral, politically expedient White House revisions, to the un-competitively contracted website disaster, the formation and implementation of PPACA has done grave injury to the political process.

Americans are now watching the entire Act collapse under the weight of its own illegitimacy. Obamacare has, thus far, served to discourage Americans from working, vastly expanded the Medicaid entitlement, caused the cancelation of millions of private insurance plans, pledged tax funds to underwrite insurance’s losses, increased premium costs by an average of 41 percent, and distanced doctors from patients.

Jonathan Turley, noted constitutional scholar who generally supports President Obama’s policies has said,

I think many people will come to loathe that they remained silent during this period. . . . I think that many people will look back at this period in history and see nothing but confusion as to why people remained so silent when the president asserted these types of unilateral actions. You have a president who is claiming the right to basically rewrite or ignore or negate federal laws. That is a dangerous thing.

Of course, when Americans think of federal law, this spectacle of harried negotiation and frantic deal-making that produced a 2,700 page reconciliation product called the PPACA “law” was as repugnant as Washington sausage-making gets. Key Senators and Congress-members writing in a pending federal appellate amicus brief called the law “disjointed, confusing, and even self-contradictory,” describing it as a “preliminary draft” that was pushed to preempt the filibuster after the election of Republican Senator Scott Brown.

The American public is well aware that Congress generally did not read the PPACA, nor did members deliberate the terms in reconciliation. Now that we are all “finding out what is in it,” sixty-four percent of Americans polled said that the ACA would not have passed “if we knew then what we know today.”

States seeking a way to defend the constitutional order have signed on to lawsuits challenging the legal foundations upon which Obamacare is rationalized. So far, legal challenges have failed.

There is another way that states may organize to pull healthcare back from Washington: the Healthcare Compact. Eight states have already agreed to join in a compact designed to restore control of medical services and systems to the states. An additional ten states are now actively considering adopting the Compact.

Recently, Congressman James Lankford introduced H.J. Res. 110 to authorize “member states … to implement their own health care systems without interference from federal bureaucrats.”

Interstate compacts between states have been in place since before the nation was formed. They have been used over two hundred times to address regional concerns, settle disputes, and defend state sovereignty. For example, compacts have been utilized to organize emergency management, resolve transportation issues, and establish regulatory consistency. Currently, many states are now participating in twenty-five or more compacts.

The Healthcare Compact simply returns healthcare administration to the states. Comparable to a block grant, this compact would provide for allocation of funds back to the states as currently designated by Washington. The Compact also establishes an advisory Healthcare Commission that would convene to recommend non-binding resolutions, assess healthcare issues, and publish data.

At the very least, Congress is obligated to make good on attempts to repeal Obamacare and should expedite approval of the multistate Healthcare Compact. The grant of congressional consent would uphold constitutionally mandated state police power vesting oversight of “health, safety, and welfare” matters in the states. This sovereign state authority logically includes the regulation of healthcare policy.

The federal government has countered that it has the constitutional power to tax and spend for the general welfare and that universal healthcare is a justifiable federal interest. Indeed, this taxing authority rationale was the basis for Chief Justice Roberts’ legal defense of the individual mandate. However, even a wildly imaginative interpretation of the tax-and-spend power could not be construed to license the capricious federal meddling and legislative tampering now imposed upon the most personal medical affairs of state citizens.

States should not pass on this opportunity to reacquire control of healthcare matters while resolving the question of state sovereignty. Moreover, Congress has a constitutional duty to allow state laboratories of advanced technology, medical innovation, and economic incentive to fix the mess that Washington has made.

Some states like Vermont have already expressed interest in a single payer plan whereas other states might choose a plan based upon Indiana’s successful trial of health savings accounts for government employees. Private organizations have demonstrated great results with cooperative plans that promote individual responsibility and comparative shopping for medical services. Health maintenance organizations like Kaiser Permanente have been able to offer reasonable premiums while featuring preventative programs. States are far better positioned than the federal government best to determine the options that are most efficient and effective.

If entrepreneurial states are given a chance to show that they can do a vastly superior job of providing quality care at competitive cost, they will also restore faith in the American reputation for innovative, reliable, and quality medical care. More importantly, returning healthcare to state management will advance a core American ethic: state dynamism and self-determination.

Karen Lugo is Director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Action at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin. 

Rep. Lankford (R-OK) Introduces Bill to Free States from Obamacare

Congressman James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the one bill that will give states the ability to free themselves from the chains of Obamacare - the Health Care Compact (H.J. Res. 110).  

To date, eight states have joined the Health Care Compact (Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah), and legislation has either passed the state legislature or is being considered in 12 additional states.

Interstate compacts are governing tools that have been used on more than 200 occasions to establish agreements between and among states. Mentioned in Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution, compacts are constitutional instruments that provide authority and flexibility to the states for administering government programs without federal interference. Congressional consent is required for states to enter into a legally binding compact.

Why is the Health Care Compact Important for Ohio?

In Ohio, many think or were led to believe the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment (OHCFA) completely stopped the implementation of Obamacare in Ohio.  It does not and never did.  (Click here to read text of OHCFA)

Simply put, while a good first step, the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment only stopped an Ohio resident from being forced into purchasing health insurance or from being forced into a health care system from the state or federal government. 

Due to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment passed in 2011, now only prohibits Ohio residents from being forced to purchase health insurance or from being forced into a health care program at the state level. 

Whereas any member state of the Health Care Compact, once approved by Congress, will be free from the chains of Obamacare and will be able to draft task specific health care laws that best suit their state -- without being bound by the federal constraints and mandates of ACA.

Continuing the fight against Obamacare in Ohio, Ohio Rep. Terry Boose & Rep. Wes Retherford introduced HB 227 and are hoping Ohio becomes the ninth state to pass the Health Care Compact.

From Breitbart -- 

Washington, DC—Representative James Lankford (R-OK), Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, today introduced the House Joint Resolution legislative proposal for the Health Care Compact, a breakthrough governance reform that allows states to clean up the health care mess created by the federal government.

“The Health Care Compact is a way for states to protect their residents from the top-down, one-size-fits-all health care ‘solutions’ that have been imposed from Washington DC, including Obamacare,” said Lankford.

“The compact transfers health care decision-making authority and responsibility from the federal level to member states. Those member states are then free to implement their own health care systems without interference from federal bureaucrats, using federal health care funds already collected and spent in their state.”

To date, eight states have joined the Health Care Compact (Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah), and legislation has either passed the state legislature or is being considered in 12 additional states.

Interstate compacts are governing tools that have been used on more than 200 occasions to establish agreements between and among states. Mentioned in Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution, compacts are constitutional instruments that provide authority and flexibility to the states for administering government programs without federal interference. Congressional consent is required for states to enter into a legally binding compact.

The Health Care Compact does not conflict with efforts by state attorneys general, state legislators or Members of Congress to repeal or modify the President’s health care law.

“I still strongly support a full repeal of Obamacare. While we wait for this President and Senate Democrats to move beyond their intransigent support of this unworkable law, Congress can give interested states a way to solve their state’s health-care problems themselves. States that like their Obamacare can keep their Obamacare. The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.”

On average, more than 96 percent of health care is provided and consumed within a state by residents of that state. The Health Care Compact recognizes that with the lion’s share of health care being locally provided and locally consumed, regulating it at the state level makes more sense than the centralized, one-size-fits-all policies mandated from Washington. Centralized micromanagement of a complex industry serving more than 300 million people will not work.

“With $2.3 trillion spent annually and almost 3,000 pages of regulations for Medicare and Medicaid, federal management of our complex health care system has proved to be incompetent, inflexible and incomprehensible to the average American,” observed Lankford. “States already manage Medicaid, but they are burdened with thousands of pages of federal regulation, which makes the system inefficient and impersonal. The Health Care Compact moves decision-making closer to the people, freeing states to address health care innovation, increased options and affordability."

“I am proud to join the many state legislators, governors, businessmen and hard-working Americans who have worked to build support and momentum for the idea of the Health Care Compact, and I am proud to introduce the common-sense bill for this sensible solution,” concluded Lankford.

For a copy of the bill text, please click here.

Defenders of Liberty in Ohio Continue Fight against Obamacare

For Immediate Release

Contact: Marianne Gasiecki    

mansfieldteaparty@gmail.com

February 9, 2014 

Defenders of Liberty in Ohio 

Continue Fight against Obamacare

Ohio - Recently named "Defenders of Liberty" in the latest American Conservative Union rankings for state legislators in Ohio, Rep. Wes Retherford and Rep. Terry Boose  are continuing the fight against Obamacare in Ohio. 

Leading by example, as sponsors of the Health Care Compact (HB 227), which would allow Ohio to be completely and constitutionally removed from the chains of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), Retherford & Boose, along with an All Star cast of Ohio conservatives, are proving they are dedicated to stopping Obamacare in Ohio, as well as looking for common sense solutions in addressing health care issues.

Due to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment passed in 2011, now only prohibits Ohio residents from being forced to purchase health insurance or from being forced into a health care program at the state level.  Becoming a member state of the Health Care Compact will give Ohio the Constitutional freedom and liberty to make common sense and fiscally sound decisions on what is best for Ohio regarding health care - without being bound by the federal constraints and mandates of ACA.

"As our country deals with the devastating effects of the so-called Affordable Care Act, many have thrown in the towel believing it is now the law of the land," stated Tea Party Patriots State Co-Coordinator Marianne Gasiecki. "We are fortunate in Ohio to have a group of legislators willing to defend our liberty and fight for true health care freedom that we can only get through the Health Care Compact." 

"All too often we hear politicians talk tough but run away at the slightest challenge. It is nice to see elected officials in Ohio such as Retherford and Boose, and those supporting the Health Care Compact, walking the walk of true Defenders of Liberty as they push on with the only way to Constitutionally remove us from the freedom sapping shackles of Obamacare," said Ralph King Tea Party Patriots State Co-coordinator.

"Because of the determination and dedication being shown by these Defenders of Liberty in Ohio we look forward to joining the other 8 states that have passed the Health Care Compact and hope that Ohio will soon be the ninth state," stated King.

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The Health Care Compact: The Best Path Forward

To learn more about the Health Care Compact currently in the OH House, click here.

From Breitbart --

There is no need, at this point, to belabor the problems with the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Suffice it to say that millions of Americans have been negatively impacted by the new law, and that number will grow in the coming months and years.

The question now is what to do about it. Democrats are dividing into two camps: those who want to stand by the President’s signature achievement until the bitter end, and those who are running from Obamacare, trying to save their political careers.

At the same time, Republicans are just trying to stay out of the way. Having voted against the bill, regained control of the House in its wake, and attempted to repeal the ACA multiple times, they are enjoying their moment of vindication. They rightfully fear that any attempt to “fix” Obamacare will allow Democrats and the media to portray them as “co-owning” any problems that occur downstream. And there will be more problems.

But while the Republicans are in a much stronger position than they were at the time of the government shutdown, they are still in a strategic quandary. On the one hand, Obamacare is exacting a very real human toll in the country, and the longer they stand aside doing nothing, the more they will be painted as insensitive and unresponsive to the damage. And many voters, in the midst of a personal crisis, don’t really care who caused the problem. They just want it fixed.

On the other hand, once Republicans provide specifics on the “replace” part of their “repeal and replace” plan, Democrats will switch from defense to offense. If history serves as a guide, we can expect Republicans to propose a policy cooked up in one of the top Washington DC conservative think tanks: Cato, Heritage, AEI, Manhattan, etc. Or perhaps they will dust off Rep. Paul Ryan’s free market plan for reforming health care. But no matter its provenance, their plan will be perceived as pushing a “conservative” solution for the country, designed and implemented in Washington, DC. 

Such a move, once made, will put Democrats back on their home court, attacking Republican plans as heartless and greedy. And these attacks will continue into the 2014 election cycle.

So what can be done? Well, it might help to ask, “If you had to come up with the ideal plan going forward, what would it look like?” It might have the following elements:

• It would empower state and local governments to address the problems created by Obamacare (something they’re already doing in response to the website problems) while Washington, DC attempted to sort out the mess. 

• It would not require the repeal and replacement of Obamacare all at once (something that is politically unfeasible) but would allow health care regulations to be gradually adapted and changed on a state-by-state basis to meet the particular conditions in each state.

• It would make a serious impact on the long-term federal liabilities of the health care  system (liabilities that didn’t go away under ACA). 

• It would support insurance markets that are overseen by knowledgeable regulators who have decades of experience and are, in many cases, directly accountable to voters.

• It would already have received strong support from elected officials of both parties.

• It would accommodate a wide variety of health care policy solutions, from single-payer to health savings accounts to accountable care organizations, and would provide the funding to support any of them.

• It would be something that can be put in place quickly to help mitigate the damage currently being done by Obamacare.

Believe it or not, such an ideal plan already exists, and its legislation has already passed in 11 state legislatures and been signed into law in eight of those states. It’s called the Health Care Compact.

There are two basic parts of the Health Care Compact. First, it provides states with a “regulatory shield” that allows them to regain control over health care regulation in their state. Second, it takes all federal health care spending in a state and turns it into an annual mandatory transfer payment to that state, indexing it for changes in inflation and population.

Unlike the 2,200+ page Affordable Care Act, the Health Care Compact is remarkably simple. Weighing in at just four pages, it can be read and understood by every member of Congress. And its purpose is straightforward: shift the responsibility and authority (both regulatory and fiscal) for health care from the federal government to compacting states. And it can happen quickly; all that is required is Congressional consent for the compact to become operative.

There are no special restrictions on the kind of health care system a state may adopt under the Health Care Compact (other than normal Constitutional constraints). Vermont has already passed legislation to create a single-payer system; Utah was well on its way to creating a private market for health insurance prior to ACA and can now restart that effort; Massachusetts has a program, popular in that state, that was passed by Democrats and signed by Republican Gov. Mitt Romney.


These and other policy solutions would be allowed under the Health Care Compact. In fact, it is likely that we will see a different solution emerge for each state, customized for the particular demographics, policy preferences, and provider networks in that state.

Participation in the Health Care Compact is solely at the option of each state. States that wish to stay in the federal system are free to do so. And states are not required to drop federal health care programs upon joining the compact; they can stay in those programs until such time as they are prepared to provide a workable substitute for their citizens—as long as they foot the bill. And with the transfer of federal dollars to the state, they have the resources to do so.

Now, the Health Care Compact requires Congressional consent. But the frightening situation facing both parties today makes such consent politically viable.

For Republicans, the Health Care Compact provides the optimal solution to their current challenge: how to help Americans hurt by Obamacare without pushing a conservative policy that would generate even more uncertainty, or attempting a “fix” that could leave them sharing the blame for its failure. Leave it to the states to work through, while providing those states with the funds the federal government already collects and spends in that state. And because it shaves about $3 trillion from the next ten years of federal health care commitments, it is also fiscally prudent.

For Democrats, the Health Care Compact provides a lifeline that can save them from electoral disaster. By providing an state option to take control of health care regulation, they can enable their supporters—many of whom are eager for single-payer—to pursue their goals in their state, rather than being forced to fight to the death for a system that many already feel is just a warmed-over conservative policy.

Because the Health Care Compact is voluntary for states, fiscally sound, Constitutionally licit (there are over 200 interstate compacts in operation), policy neutral (allowing blue states to pursue blue solutions and red states to pursue red solutions), and adopted by eight states thus far with more on the way, it is the only practical response to Obamacare debacle.

Rahm Emanuel famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” What is less famous was his next sentence: “And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Three years ago, it seemed a little crazy to think that Congress might ever consent to the Health Care Compact. But with a serious crisis underway, it is not only conceivable, it is the best path forward.

So it is time for Congress to consent to the Health Care Compact, and free the states to clean up the mess they’ve created. It’s time to turn a Washington failure into an American success—one state at a time.

Leo Linbeck III is a husband, father of five, construction, real estate, and biotechnology executive, on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and is an education and political reformer.

Ohio Moves One Step Closer to True Healthcare Freedom

In utilizing provisions set forth in the U.S. Constitution (Article I Section 10), Ohio took another step closer to shedding the federal chains of Obamacare.

Giving Sponsor testimony in the OH House State & Local Government Committee on HB 227, the Health Care Compact, Rep. Wes Retherford & Rep. Terry Boose did an excellent job explaining the fiscal & legislative benefits and freedoms that will be gained by passing the HCC and becoming a member state.  

To read Rep. Retherford's testimony - click here / to read Rep. Boose's testimony - click here.

Already passed in eight states and introduced in nine more, including Ohio, the Health Care Compact, when approved by Congress, will allow the member states to completely remove themselves from the train wreck of Obamacare.

Legislatively, the HCC will allow member states to draft and pass healthcare related legislation task specific to the needs of their state....

Enters Ohio into the Health Care Compact, which, with the permission of the United States Congress, allows Ohio, as a member state, to suspend the operation of all federal laws, rules, regulations, and orders regarding health care that are inconsistent with Ohio laws adopted pursuant to the Compact.

The bill enacts and ratifies the Health Care Compact which, with the permission of the United States Congress, allows Ohio, as a member state, to regulate health care within the state (particularly, insurance), and to enter into the Compact with any other state that has legally joined in the Compact. From OLSC Bill Analysis

Financially, the HCC will bring our state dollars back to the state free of federal strings that will allow them to be spent in a manner that best suits the healthcare needs of Ohio residents....

Member states get an amount of money from the federal government each year to pay for health care. The funding is mandatory spending, and not subject to annual appropriations.

Each state’s funding is based on the federal funds spent in their state on health care in 2010. Each state will confirm their funding before joining this Compact. This funding level will be adjusted annually for changes in population and inflation.

As you can see, had the HCC been in effect, there would have been no need for Governor Kasich to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. 

The same funds that come with Obamcare strings attached under Governor Kasich's current Medicaid expansion would have already been allotted back to our state, as a member state of the HCC -- with NO Obamacare strings attached. 

While D.C. dawdles we need to start moving in a way that Constitutionally empowers the states to address the ever growing health care problems in a manner that best suits their state - as a member state, the Health Care Compact will allow Ohio to do exactly that.  

Please contact the below members of the OH House State & Local Government Committee and encourage them to support the HCC and putting Ohio residents back in control of the decision making process regarding our healthcare.

State & Local Government Committee

GOP Members

Rep. Terry Blair (R)  Chairman

Phone: (614) 466-6504 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Marlene Anielski (R) Vice-Chair

Phone: (614) 644-6041 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Richard Adams (R) Co-Sponsor

Phone: (614) 466-8114 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Terry Boose (R) Sponsor

Phone: (614) 466-9628 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Tim Brown (R)

Phone: (614) 466-8104 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Tony Burkley (R)

Phone: (614) 644-5091

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Rex Damschroder (R)

Phone: (614) 466-1374 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Cheryl Grossman (R)

Phone: (614) 466-9690 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Bob Hackett (R)

Phone: (614) 466-1470 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Brian Hill (R)

Phone: (614) 644-6014 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Ron Maag (R) Co-Sponsor

Phone: (614) 644-6023 

Contact: Click Here

Rep. Ron Young (R) Co-Sponsor

Phone: (614) 644-6074 

Contact: Click Here

The Health Care Compact: 8 States & Counting -- Let's make Ohio #9!

OH Rep. Wes Retherford will be giving his sponsor testimony for the Health Care Compact (HB 277) on Tuesday November 19th, and is asking for our support and presence.  

If you can join us in Columbus in support of Rep Retherford's testimony on HB 227 or if you are interested in joining us for a up coming conference call to learn more on the Health Care Compact efforts in Ohio, please click here.

From The Health Care Compact --

As of this writing, the Health Care Compact (HCC) has been signed into law in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah. The bill has been introduced and is under consideration in nine other states. 

All of this progress is due to the grassroots advocacy and support of thousands of Americans like you who believe the federal government should stay out of health care.Together, we’re sending a clear message to Congress: America wants a wiser alternative to Obamacare.

Every state we gain increases the pressure on Congress to recognize the HCC as a means for member states to bypass the financial disaster of Obamacare—and to affirm the states’ right to operate at a smaller, local government level on issues like health care.

With more provisions of Obamacare set to take effect on January 1, we’ve arrived at a “strike while the iron is hot” moment in the HCC movement.The financial, ethical, and practical problems of Obamacare are becoming more real to the American people, and it’s up to us to show them that there is an alternative . . . one that is simple, locally empowering, and mandated by the Constitution.

There has never been a better time to tell your friends, neighbors, and coworkers about the HCC, because more people are open to the idea than ever before. There’s also never been a better time to throw your financial support behind the HCC, as the momentum builds for advocacy and awareness.

Please click here and sign the petition to show your support of HB 227 & the Health Care Compact efforts in Ohio.

Ohio Health Care Compact: moving the ball down the field

From our Ohio Tea Party Patriot co-coordinator, Marianne:

Many of you are aware of the work Tea Party Patriots of Ohio has been doing with Rep Wes Retherford and the Health Care Compact, to stop the Obamacare train wreck.

The Health Care Compact is an interstate compact.  It has already been passed in eight states and has been introduced and under consideration in nine other states, including Ohio.

Rep. Retherford will be giving his sponsor testimony on HB 227 November 19th, and is asking for our support and presence. Please let us know if you'll be able to join us, and we'll continue to forward information regarding the testimony and the Health Care Compact, as we are updated.

Eight states and their governors have already signed the Health Care Compact legislation into law.  Let's make Ohio the 9th!

Want to Learn More?

Take Action

The Health Care Compact is our answer to the question "Who should govern?"  The Health Care Compact promotes:

* self-governance by bringing the decision making process closer to the people.

*  Click here for a brief video explaining the Health Care Compact

*  Visit the Health Care Compact website

*  Join us in Columbus in support of Rep Retherford's testimony on HB 227  Click Here if you can join us or participate in a conference call

*  Sign the petition to show your support of self-governance through the Health Care Compact.  Click Here to Sign.

We received over 2,000 signatures in one week's time when showing our opposition to Medicaid expansion.  Let's show our support of self-governance and sign the petition for the Ohio Health Care Compact. 

Shouldn't our elected representatives be allowed to represent us, rather than being stripped of their authority to do so?

*  Forward the Ohio Health Care Compact petition to all your friends and family, and ask them to forward it to all they know.

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