Roskam to 18 million: "I've got mine...now gimme back yours!"

If you read the heartless rhetoric from my Congressman Peter Roskam's website www.roskam.house.gov, you'd surmise he's never received a single constituent communication expressing profound gratitude upon receiving first time health care insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). There are 20,000,000 given that lifeline so based on evenly distributed population, about 45,000 of them live in the Sixth District. But last Friday the 13th sure was an unlucky day for those 20,000,000 as Roskam joined the Republican majority to abolish it. Just four days later the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office published a devastating analysis warning that 18,000,000 of them would lose coverage the first year under RoskamRepeal, and upwards of 32,000,000 would go without over a decade. In addition, RoskamRepeal would jack up rates 20% to 25% in that first year. 

Peter Roskam and family enjoy the finest medical assistance that his CongressCare provides; not just a Cadillac policy, a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. He's spent the last eight years sowing fear and loathing of the ACA because he panders to the anti government wing that re-elects him every two years; the public interest be damned. What's more important? Twenty million folks in need covered, with 50,000 of them avoiding death; or a lifetime ticket to the House?   

Least Roskam join the Republican chorus blasting the CBO report, he should consider that Keith Hall, the CBO Director who signed off on the inconvenient truths Roskam ignores, was selected and appointed by Republican Congressional leaders in 2015.