{"id":16644,"date":"2012-12-05T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16644"},"modified":"2012-12-05T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:15:45","slug":"text-of-marco-rubio%e2%80%99s-speech-to-jack-kemp-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16644\/text-of-marco-rubio%e2%80%99s-speech-to-jack-kemp-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Text of Marco Rubio\u2019s Speech to Jack Kemp Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Events kindly provides the full text of Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2012\/12\/05\/full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-remarks-at-jack-kemp-leadership-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rubio\u2019s speech<\/a> at last night Jack Kemp Foundation ceremony bestowing on him its annual Leadership Award.<\/p>\n<p>While the entire speech is a must-read, a passage on a specific health care reform struck this conservative as especially attractive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to promoting Flexible Savings Accounts, we should create a health insurance system that focuses on empowering people, not bureaucracy. People should be able to buy a health care plan that fits their needs and budget, from any company in America that is willing to sell it to them. And they should be able to buy it with tax free money, just like their employers buy it for many of them now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is, until Obamacare fully kicks in.\u00a0 Since Obamacare\u2019s regulations on employers only apply to full-time workers, there is a regulatory incentive to minimize the amount of full-time workers one employs.\u00a0 In order to avoid either the stiff compliance costs or the steep penalties for failing to comply, employers are likely to increase the trend of laying-off workers, scaling back hours, or using contract workers in order to avoid the profit-killing expense of paying for all of Obamacare\u2019s new required benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the entirely predictable response to Obamacare\u2019s mandates, millions of American workers are likely to be caught in an employment trap where they work just enough at two or more jobs not to qualify as full-time employees with benefits.\u00a0 If Republicans are unable to repeal Obamacare, then fixing the tax code to allow independent workers to buy affordable health plans with pre-tax dollars is one of the next best moves.\u00a0 Marco Rubio seems poised to lead that charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Events kindly provides the full text of Senator Marco Rubio\u2019s speech at last night Jack Kemp Foundation ceremony bestowing on him its annual Leadership Award. While the entire speech is a must-read, a passage on a specific health care reform struck this conservative as especially attractive: In addition to promoting Flexible Savings Accounts, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3956,3074,3308,352,35,1447,300],"class_list":["post-16644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-compliance","tag-cost","tag-health","tag-marco-rubio","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16648,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644\/revisions\/16648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}