Based upon the voting record of Steve Scalise, a GOP candidate to become Majority Whip in the House of Representatives.
1. Repeal Obamacare and deny health insurance to lower middle income America and people with pre-existing conditions.
2. Deny Climate Change is Occurring.
3. Defund the government so you can cut taxes further after ending crucial services.
4. Maintain government subsidies for Flood Insurance so that people living in coastal flood zones don't see their insurance costs sky rocket.
In other words, it's OK for my constituents with boatloads of money to give me campaign contribution to get government handouts, but it's not OK for lower middle class constituents to get the government policies that will help them
So now "lower middle class" needs more government help? Repeal Obamacare and allow insurers to offer policies across state lines and rein in tort lawyers to lower frivolous medical malpractice claims. Of course the latter would punish a key constituency of the Democrat Party...
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with medical malpractice reform (I would extend tort reform even more broadly than that - class action lawsuits have been out of control for 40 years).
DeleteAnd now that there is a uniform standard for health insurance, you could have inter-state competition if the states would allow it. There isn't one state legislature in the U.S. that would give up there right to regulate their own insurance industry because then the campaign dollars would be diverted from state elections to national elections.
And it is the lower middle class and people with pre-existing conditions who benefit from ObamaCare. The lower middle class mades too much to be on Medicaid and are the ones who get the ACA subsidies. People with pre-existing conditions are just happy to pay a normal group premium that they can afford rather than have no access to health insurance or pay 3x or 4x the normal group rate to have health insurance. My NY policy will cost me $7,200 a year less under the ACA than what I had before the ACA. That cost is all in: premiums, co-pays, and max out of pocket.
You don't have to repeal Obamacare to get what you want: tort reform and inter-state competition.
Meanwhile, twice in the last few weeks I have read about parents trying to get help for dangerous kids who might get a gun and go on a rampage. They cannot find the mental health services that are willing to help get the kid off the street. The reason is mental health care is expensive and private policies (and subscribers) don't want to pay for it.
Meanwhile, Glenn Beck and Pat Roberson agree with Obama on Iraq and Hank Paulsen and the last 4 GOP Heads of the EPA all urge the GOP to do something about Global Warming.