The Democrats used the Romney/Massachusetts’ health care program as a blueprint for Obamacare. They did that because it is working in Massachusetts. Nearly 100 percent of children, and 98 percent of the adults are covered. It also has nearly a 75 percent approval rating from the people.
It is a tax or a penalty? I don’t care. What I do care about are the people who will die from the lack of health care. Some estimates go as high as 40,000 people a year who die due to lack of health care. If it was one person you know or loved, wouldn’t one be too many?
They die because they wait too long to get help. They die because they don’t get the medicine they need. They die because they can’t afford to go to a doctor and they don’t even know they are sick.
Many of the people who have no insurance are the working poor who work for minimum wage. Some are people who have lost their jobs and insurance through no fault of their own during the recent recession. Many are the children of the poor, who through no fault of their own, have no insurance. Have you ever experienced the anguish of a parent who couldn’t afford to take a sick child to the doctor?
The Republican Party, with Christian, pro-life and family values, doesn’t want to implement Obamacare and the Medicaid expansion that would cover these people. That would be a real penalty for some of them, a death penalty. How can this be Christian and pro-life? Whose family values wants to see someone die needlessly?
Fred Higgins
Stanwood
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