Senate Candidate Joins Movement To Repeal Healthcare Law

Add Ovide Lamontagne to the list of candidates running for office this November who have taken a pledge to fight to repeal the healthcare reform law signed by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

“What was known is that [the law] would take over nearly one sixth of our economy and puts it in the hands of the command and control planners of the federal government,” said Lamontagne, who is running for the seat occupied by the outgoing Judd Gregg (R). “What was not known was just how incredibly complex and overwhelmingly bureaucratic Obamacare would be.”

Lamontagne, who will face U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) in this fall’s election, joins conservative Republicans Sharron Angle (Nev.), Ken Buck (Colo.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), Mike Lee (Utah), Dino Rossi (Wash.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) as candidates who have vowed on record to reverse some, if not all parts of the law.

For some, their desire to repeal the law is rooted in its mandate on individuals to purchase health insurance by 2014 or risk facing punishment. According to Lamontagne, it’s the creation of added government to help carry out the law’s provisions.

“The legislation creates almost 160 new programs and bureaucracies…This is “progressive’ engineering at its worst.”

Additionally, Lamontagne says he is wary of newly appointed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Director Donald Berwick.

“Mr. Berwick, known for his views promoting rationed medicine, will now act as a health care Czar, overseeing a massive shift of a significant part of our economy to the federal government.”