Senate Minority Leader Responds to the White House's Defense of the Health Care Law

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew’s interview on Fox News Sunday. McConnell said to Chris Wallace, “The president said it was not a tax, the Supreme Court which has the final says it is a tax. The tax is going to be levied to 77 percent on Americans making less than $120,000 dollars a year, so it’s a middle class tax … increase.”

He predicted the health care debate will continue on to the November election. Wallace referenced Mitt Romney’s enacted health care reform plan and noted that residents there paid more than $20 million dollars last year because of the mandate therefore, he asked “wasn’t it a Romney tax on the middle tax?”

McConnell said that was a Massachusetts decision, not a national decision. Also, he said “Every Democratic senator voted for ObamaCare. It passed with not a vote to spare … This law is deeply unpopular with the American people. These senate races across America will indeed be a referendum on this job killing, health care tax increasing measure.”