Let me get this straight. We get a new health care law that:
Assures millions of poor and middle class citizens affordable care.
Forbids insurance companies to deny policies because of pre-existing conditions.
Allows children to stay on their parents policies until they are 26.
Assures women can recieve the reproductive care that they need.
Forbids insurance companies from charging women more that men for the same policies.
Forbids insurance companies from canceling policies when someone becomes ill.
Eliminates the lifetime cap so families do not have to go into bankrupcy because someone in the family has a catastrophic illness.
If you have an insurance plan you like, you can keep it.
With more people able to get health care, there will be more people hired to care for them. Win-win.
A tax? A penalty? What’s the difference? Only people who can afford health care but refuse to get it will be charged.
Right so far?
OK. Now the Republicans want you to vote for Mitt Romney so he can repeal this law. And replace it with what?
Not one Republican will answer that question. They all say “Oh, we’ll think of something.”
Sorry, I don’t want to risk even a law that may need more work, a law that helps milllions of Americans, for “Oh, we’ll think of something.”
Romney and Republicans were all for this before. As a matter of fact, it was a big Republican plan until President Obama decided it was a good idea.
It would be funny, if it weren’t so serious, to see Republicans demonizing so many ideas that they came up with in the first place.
But because President Obama adopted them, now they are against them. How pathetic.
Let’s get some sanity back!
Bubbles Sudds Dezotell
Everett
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