Obamacare must be repealed, it was never set up correctly
letter to the editor
To the Editor:
I feel it necessary to respond to last week’s guest columnist, who is a frequent contributor to the letter to the editor’s page. Consider the following:
The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was not passed by a single Republican. When the Senate passed Obamacare and sent it back to the House, the House made no changes to the Senate bill, as Senator Kennedy had recently died and any House amendments would not have been approved back at the Senate, so the House, on a Democrat only vote, passed the Senate bill as it came to them.
Harry Reid had cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi so that the House would pass the Senate bill without any changes, if the Senate then agreed to pass a separate bill by the House that would then make changes to the Senate version of Obamacare, known as the Reconciliation Act of 2010. In order for the House bill to get passed the Senators again changed their internal rules and used the Reconciliation Rule, which was never intended to be used for legislation of this magnitude, yet it was, and poof, we had Obamacare.
Not a single Republican vote supporting this legislation. Further, consider the quote of Democrat Representative Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process, “We’re making up the rules as we go along.” And this has continued to occur each year we have suffered under this bad legislation, including an average increase in Obamacare pricing of 25 percent for 2017 premiums.
The number of covered people, as printed in last week’s column, is grossly overstated by one-third. Maybe this was a Post typo yet the number is closer to 20 million and a few million of them had to move to Obamacare as their old health insurance plans were no longer available. Keeping one’s doctors and former health plans was another Obama untruth.
Then, to say we are down to about nine percent without health insurance is a convenient way to state the fact that in the U.S.A. this represents over 28 million people who have chosen to ignore a federal law, though Obamacare is supposed to be the solution for all those without access to health care. It is evident that we still have more people without health insurance than who have been assisted by Obamacare, though a solution was provided and legislated by the Democrats to all Americans.
In summary, Obamacare must be repealed, as it was never set up correctly and we all have heard Nancy Pelosi given credit for the line, “Well, we have to pass it, to see what is in it.” This has been bad legislation from the start. Please give this Congress and our current president time to properly address a replacement health plan that we can all live with, and not have something shoved down our throats.
Doug Charnley
Medina
I feel it necessary to respond to last week’s guest columnist, who is a frequent contributor to the letter to the editor’s page. Consider the following:
The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was not passed by a single Republican. When the Senate passed Obamacare and sent it back to the House, the House made no changes to the Senate bill, as Senator Kennedy had recently died and any House amendments would not have been approved back at the Senate, so the House, on a Democrat only vote, passed the Senate bill as it came to them.
Harry Reid had cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi so that the House would pass the Senate bill without any changes, if the Senate then agreed to pass a separate bill by the House that would then make changes to the Senate version of Obamacare, known as the Reconciliation Act of 2010. In order for the House bill to get passed the Senators again changed their internal rules and used the Reconciliation Rule, which was never intended to be used for legislation of this magnitude, yet it was, and poof, we had Obamacare.
Not a single Republican vote supporting this legislation. Further, consider the quote of Democrat Representative Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process, “We’re making up the rules as we go along.” And this has continued to occur each year we have suffered under this bad legislation, including an average increase in Obamacare pricing of 25 percent for 2017 premiums.
The number of covered people, as printed in last week’s column, is grossly overstated by one-third. Maybe this was a Post typo yet the number is closer to 20 million and a few million of them had to move to Obamacare as their old health insurance plans were no longer available. Keeping one’s doctors and former health plans was another Obama untruth.
Then, to say we are down to about nine percent without health insurance is a convenient way to state the fact that in the U.S.A. this represents over 28 million people who have chosen to ignore a federal law, though Obamacare is supposed to be the solution for all those without access to health care. It is evident that we still have more people without health insurance than who have been assisted by Obamacare, though a solution was provided and legislated by the Democrats to all Americans.
In summary, Obamacare must be repealed, as it was never set up correctly and we all have heard Nancy Pelosi given credit for the line, “Well, we have to pass it, to see what is in it.” This has been bad legislation from the start. Please give this Congress and our current president time to properly address a replacement health plan that we can all live with, and not have something shoved down our throats.
Doug Charnley
Medina
