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July 2013 GOP spends $60 million on
symbolic repeals.
According to ThinkProgress, each vote by the GOP-controlled House of Representatives to repeal of Obamacare
costs taxpayers approximately $1.5 million, depending upon the time spent
preparing and voting on the bill. This latest attempt by House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) and his republican associates brings the total spent on repeal
bills which they know will never be enacted up to almost $60 million.
From the Office of Phil Roe M.D. TN 1st
(R) dated 17 July 2013
“…Last week the administration
announced that it would delay the employer mandate by one year. This decision
does nothing to help the individuals that are still being forced to carry
health insurance because of this law and there’s no way to guarantee it will
reverse the damage that has already been done because of this law. This week
the House will take action to delay both the employer and individual mandate. I
look forward to seeing the same enthusiasm to protect families by delaying the
individual mandate as we saw from President Obama when his administration took
steps to protect businesses.
This delay is a step in the right direction
towards protecting the American people from an economic catastrophe, but we
can’t stop here. Obamacare is bad medicine for America, and the only cure is a
full repeal.”
The Congressman has called for a full repeal of the
Affordable Care Act. The GOP and its
teavangelist compatriots have made 39 attempts in Congress to repeal the
law. They have nothing to replace the
law except to remain with the current status and to support a broken system
that enriches insurance companies and their executives while denying care to
many of the insured Americans whose premiums have secured them only minimalist
care before landing them in poverty.
From the office of Senator Alexander (R) 20
July 2013
“. Last week, Senator Corker joined
all Senate Republicans in a
letter to President Obama urging him to permanently delay the
implementation of the health care law.”
The GOP has
long been in the pocket of the health insurance industry. The salaries and benefits packages that the
industry CEO’s pull down are more obscenely over-inflated. Any major health insurance CEO has an hourly
compensation rate that is more than twice what my yearly income is, or ever
was. The attempt to repeal the
Affordable Healthcare Act – Obamacare – is not only an attempt to marginalize
the Obama presidency, a GOP goal since 2008, but also a means to assure that
the health insurance lobbyists keep the re-election funding coming in while the
health insurance industry CEO’s draw their ever increasing compensation
packages.
The thing
that I find most frustrating about the health insurance and other health
matters such as women’s health is that those members of Congress who are
physicians should know that the GOP lack of any plan to replace Obamacare would
only exacerbate the method of health care non-delivery we currently enjoy. The number of uninsured will grow
exponentially. Employers will cancel
employee coverage, as is already happening due to the ever-escalating cost of
health insurance combined with the spiraling number of insured who are being
denied benefits after paying premiums for years.
States will
continue to undermine women’s health care.
They will disregard any science-based concerns while once again allowing
physicians who should know better to advance religion-based suppositions and
misinformation as if they were proven science.
Unable defeat
Obamacare in reality, the GOP continues to waste taxpayer money by staging
repeated “symbolic” repeal votes. These
are estimated to cost $1.5 million per incident. That’s nearly $60 million for the 39 attempts
to overturn reality. Someone in the GOP
caucus needs to remind the caucus and leadership that the definition of
insanity:” doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results." –Einstein.
Doctor Roe, how about pushing for a dose of reality
instead of simply rubber stamping the waste of $60 million by the actions of
people who want to role the calendar back to the antebellum period. While they are so engaged, maybe they can
vote germ theory out of existence too.
After all that’s one way to deal with multiply resistance bacteria, pretend
they don’t exist, that there is no scientific fact supporting their existence.
Further proof of a GOP that has no health care plan
beyond “Get sick – die quick” is the
GOP/teavangelist willingness to waste money on symbolic votes while demanding
the poorest and most vulnerable citizens in the nation, including many veterans
and active duty personnel be stripped of their meager safety nets already
damaged by the “sequester.”
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