In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-4) is meeting with health care professionals to assess the impact of the ruling on patient care and to discuss proposals for improving health care concerns going forward. She took part in a roundtable discussion today with a group of health care providers at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia and received a tour of the facility.
“This meeting was a valuable tool as I work to find alternatives to ObamaCare,” said Hartzler. “Our conversation involved concerns the hospital has fully implementing the law and discussed suggestions for better solutions for health care reforms. We also discussed medical liability reform, physician shortages, and Medicare’s sustainable growth rate, the formula that calls for deep cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors.”
“I remain committed to repealing this government takeover of health care,” added Hartzler. “This law will not solve our health care problems; it will only make things worse. It is essential to find solutions that address the issue of affordability, accessibility, patient control of health care decisions, and will protect the right of Americans to keep their current insurance policies.”
Yes there is a tax penalty to those who can afford to purchase health insurance through the exchanges, but refuse to do so. Rather than call it the “Obamacare Tax,” I call it the “I’m a deadbeat and expect you to pay for my health care even though I can afford insurance Tax.” According to the Congressional Budget Office, approximately 1 percent of the 30 million currently uninsured would be subject to the tax.
ReplyDeleteI’m also surprised that any Republican would be opposed to making deadbeats, bottom-feeders and parasites pay their fair share after what some conservative writers of letters to the editor have said about welfare, food stamps and unemployment compensation.
Further, if and when our Republican congressman boasts he/she voted to repeal affordable health care, here’s what he/she voted to repeal: giving you a rebate from your insurance company coming in August that the health care act requires because insurance companies spent too much on administrative costs and CEO salaries, rather than your health care.
He will have voted for you being denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition (nearly all insurance companies think being over 50 is a pre-existing condition); for insurance companies denying your adult children under 26 staying on your policy; for insurance companies denying children with pre-existing conditions from being covered; against senior citizens having their medications fully covered under Medicare by closing the doughnut hole; for insurance companies putting a lifetime cap on the amount of coverage you receive; and against requiring insurance companies to spend at least 70 percent of the premiums you pay on health care costs.
As far as Republicans inclination to replace affordable healthcare if they repeal it, let me remind you they were successful at blocking health care reform in 1993 during the Clinton administration, and have made ZERO effort to replace it in the intervening 19 years.
In the years since, health care costs have increased exponentially and are continuing to rise faster than any other sector of our economy.
Thus, if you believe the GOP is going to replace affordable healthcare, then you’ll just as easily believe The Joplin Globe is about to become a left-leaning, socialist newspaper.