Health act benefits are real I laughed out loud at the opening paragraph of another newspapers editorial the day after the District 13 congressional special election. It said David Jollys victory represents a clear repudiation of Obamacare. A clear repudiation, really? First of all, Jolly beat Alex Sink by 3,457 votes — hardly a landslide, and certainly not a clear repudiation of Obamacare. There are more than 422,000 Floridians who have signed up for health care under the Affordable Care Act. I personally know at least 10 people who are able to have health insurance for the first time ever, without an exclusion for their pre-existing conditions, and I know at least two people who have already received life-saving treatment under their new coverage that they would never have qualified for before the Affordable Care Act. I dont know anyone who has been able to obtain coverage under the new law who wants it repealed and taken away from them. If Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz had an ounce of compassion and would accept the Medicaid expansion money that is denying life-saving care to nearly 800,000 uninsured Floridians, wed have more than 1.2 Million Floridians who would be in favor of keeping Obamacare. I dont know anyone who wants to go back to the old system that punished people with pre-existing conditions, tied affordable health insurance to your job, didnt allow you to take your policy with you if you change jobs, kicked children off of their parents policy before age 26, and didnt make insurance companies spend at least 80 percent of the premiums that you sent to them on your care. Those are all benefits that would disappear if Obamacare was repealed. Ive been a small business owner for more than 30 years. My premiums have gone up every year during that time — often by more than 15 percent per year. Obamacare didnt cause that — its been happening because the insurance companies have had us by the throats for years. Last year was the first time that my health insurance company was forced to send me a check to give me back some of my premium payments, because they had not spent 80 percent of my money on my health care. That never would have happened without Obamacare. Gary Gibbons, Tampa
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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