Sunday, October 22, 2017

Is Roskam thrilled 3.5 million have lost health care under Trump?



My congressman Peter Roskam (R IL 6) has spent the last 9 years working furiously to deny people in need health insurance. Preventing, defunding, overturning the Affordable Health Care Act of 2013 has been his signature issue as 6th District congressman. He blared his opposition from the House floor, Fox News, constituent emails, his website; indeed at every chance and venue possible. Till this January all he could do is rail against it without actually getting desperate folks tossed off the insurance rolls.

Alas, his promotion of his self described 'wild card' Trump to the presidency is finally bearing fruit...I'm mean casualties. The nine months of governing mendacity Roskam supports has resulted in 3.5 million folks losing health care this year, a drop of 1.4% of the health insured population. Does Roskam, in the deepest recesses of his soul, possibly ponder how many of them will go bankrupt paying for critical medical care; how many will suffer degraded health; or even how many will simply die? Or does the congressman read the statistics, smile, and say softly, 'Now, that's progress.'

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