Millions helped, saved even, by ACA not important to Roskam
Go to my Congressman Peter Roskam's website www.roskam.house.com and there's no mention of the game changing Supreme Court decision upholding the federal subsidies provision of the Affordable Care Act, allowing six million folks to afford health insurance for the first time. That is because 'Shelby County v. Holder' put the final nail into the coffin of the GOP attempt to destroy the ACA. For the past seven years Roskam has been working feverishly first, to prevent its passage, then voting 55 times since its 2010 start up to overturn it. His website today makes nary a mention of the revolution that has occurred by granting 15 million Americans health care. Six of those millions are low income folks, getting subsidies by Uncle Sam, amounting to an average of $3,300, nearly 75% of their annual health care costs. Much of those subsidies are going to younger, healthier enrollees, slowing the rate of increase for all. How slow? While Roskam endlessly trots out the GOP canard the ACA will spike insurance costs, the 2015 increase is a mere 2%, well below the annual average before ACA.
But the ACA revolution improving the lives (saving thousands actually from early death) of the 15 million new customers spreads far beyond those previously shut out. The health insurance industry is thriving, reinventing itself as companies develop new business models to accommodate the vast new customer base. Their innovations such as increased use
electronic medical records and tighter coordination between large and small hospitals, is cutting costs and improving efficiency. Merger interest in these thriving health insurance companies has spiked; something the fear mongering Roskam could never have foreseen. Wall Street loves the ACA.
In Roskam's bizarre, know nothing worldview, the ACA is still 'job killing Obamacare'. That only works if you, like Roskam, utterly dismiss the average of 240,000 new jobs created every month since the ACA became law. Unlike an elephant, Republican Roskam forgets, but only those nasty, inconvenient truths.
Other critical issues aside, Congressman Roskam's conduct on the ACA is a disgrace to the legislative process. It is cynical beyond calculation when you consider the millions of folks who would be bankrupt, suffering poorer health, or even dead without it. At some point Roskam should examine his heart and his soul to determine if this is the best he can do as a public servant, indeed, as a human being. We Sixth District residents should call his office at 202-225-4561 to voice our opposition to seven years of false, unconscionable fear mongering using the medically uninsured as political props. Be concise, polite but firm in requesting he stop impeding the greatest improvement in societal medical care in our lifetime.
But the ACA revolution improving the lives (saving thousands actually from early death) of the 15 million new customers spreads far beyond those previously shut out. The health insurance industry is thriving, reinventing itself as companies develop new business models to accommodate the vast new customer base. Their innovations such as increased use
electronic medical records and tighter coordination between large and small hospitals, is cutting costs and improving efficiency. Merger interest in these thriving health insurance companies has spiked; something the fear mongering Roskam could never have foreseen. Wall Street loves the ACA.
In Roskam's bizarre, know nothing worldview, the ACA is still 'job killing Obamacare'. That only works if you, like Roskam, utterly dismiss the average of 240,000 new jobs created every month since the ACA became law. Unlike an elephant, Republican Roskam forgets, but only those nasty, inconvenient truths.
Other critical issues aside, Congressman Roskam's conduct on the ACA is a disgrace to the legislative process. It is cynical beyond calculation when you consider the millions of folks who would be bankrupt, suffering poorer health, or even dead without it. At some point Roskam should examine his heart and his soul to determine if this is the best he can do as a public servant, indeed, as a human being. We Sixth District residents should call his office at 202-225-4561 to voice our opposition to seven years of false, unconscionable fear mongering using the medically uninsured as political props. Be concise, polite but firm in requesting he stop impeding the greatest improvement in societal medical care in our lifetime.
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