Letter to the Editor

GOP should stop complaining about health care

Saturday, July 14, 2012

To the editor:

How sad is it for the Republican Congress to keep bickering over the health care law, about it being a tax and repealing it? Why is the health care law is causing the Republican Congress so much grief? Stop lying to the American people about repealing the president's health care law. You know you can't repeal it. You know it and I know it. What if the health care law is a tax? In my opinion, common sense should dictate that there are some kinds of tax involved in all local, state and federal government transactions. You pay tax at the gas pump, and when the gas goes down you pay less tax. There are all kinds of hidden taxes that you're not aware of, but you're paying it.

Did you know that you pay tax just to work, pay tax to ride the streets to work, pay tax for our U.S. Congress' vacations, pay tax for their health insurance, pay tax for their retirement, pay tax for transportation, pay tax just to eat, pay tax for the clothing on your back, pay tax for clean water, tax for clean air, security tax, etc.?

So don't worry about being taxed, because you were taxed to be born into this world. Every state requires the hospital emergency room to care for the sick. The hospitals pass this cost to you in a tax, a much, much higher cost than a family doctor.

There are some who say that the government should not make you pay tax for someone else's insurance. Well, the government makes you do a lot of things that you don't want to do. The government even makes you buy car insurance. It's just like we humans -- we care more about our cars having insurance than mankind having insurance.

I want all the health care critics to know this -- no one, I mean no one, stands alone in this world. Some way, somehow, someone has your back. You are making a very big mistake if you think this life is only about you. If the Republican Congress would put some time and effort into creating jobs for the American people, we would be much better off. A new poll shows that 56 percent of Americans want to see critics of the president's health care law drop the effort to repeal it and move on to job issues.

Back to President Obama's health care reform critics. I don't mean to blow your mind, but keep on reading. The savings and loan scandal of the '80s cost the American taxpayers $157 billion. This bailout was financed by floating a 30-year bond, and at the end of 2020, taxpayers will have paid an estimated $1.4 trillion. Yes, I said trillion. The 99 percent of the people who are paying for this bond had nothing to do with the scandal, but they are paying the tax. The very next time you find yourself complaining about helping the poor and the needy, you think about the $1.4 trillion that you are paying for the rich, and there's nothing you can do about it. Oh yes, this is costing the 99 percent of the taxpayers $32 billion every year for 30 years. Why don't you complain about this?

For these 50 million who did not have health care; well, you can thank God and President Obama that you can now have the health care you need. No one will be denied health coverage or be charged a discriminatory premium because of a pre-existing condition. Also, young adults can stay on their parent's health care plans until they're 26, and women will no longer be charged discriminatory premiums. Seniors and people with disabilities will continue to receive more affordable prescription drugs. Millions of uninsured people will receive health care coverage. Moderate and middle income families will receive tax credit subsidies so that insurance premiums are affordable.

This is the president's health care reform. Now, you can explain to the American people how this health care reform is not good for them. Republican Ryan's health care and his budget plan are Kryptonite to the American people.

Open thy mouth judge, righteously, and plead the case of the poor and needy. (Proverbs 31:9.)

Albert Veasley
Osceola