A
Few Questions Re “Repealing Obama Care”
When
Mitt Romney says that he will “repeal Obamacare in his first day in office,” do
folks realize that he’d be throwing out item after item that the largest percentage
of Americans support and that positively impact their lives?
Would
older people happily return to “the donut hole,” that would cost many of them
up to $1,500 a year in added drug costs?
Are
kids and their parents willing to toss overboard the provision allowing adult
children to remain on their parents’ health plan until age 26?
People
who have diabetes, cancer, who have suffered heard attacks or who are infected
with HIV, are they receptive to allowing insurance companies to preclude them
because of their “prior conditions?”
Finally,
the Act helps drive down costs—which Republicans and everyone else should
embrace—through prevention programs and better understanding of health
outcomes. All in favor of losing that
raise their hand.
Republicans
say that they will reinstate portions of the Act that they don’t find
objectionable—such as prohibiting exclusion due to existing conditions. But health reform took the two years to
enact (or decades, depending on how polemic you want to be). Is there any assurance that the Reps could
reinstate the goodies anytime soon? Not
likely.
