Healthcare sabotage
It almost feels like the healthcare crisis in America has disappeared.
I mean, with the constant barrage of inane statements and wag-the-dog games going on with this administration, it is almost impossible to know what is really going on with boring subjects like healthcare.
While Congressman Walden and his Republican colleagues in D.C. are being quieter on the subject, they are definitely not sitting on their hands.
Having failed to eliminate the ACA (“Obamacare”) all at once, they’re sabotaging it piecemeal and hoping we voters won’t realize who’s responsible for rising premiums and falling coverage. They do this by trying to reduce the number of people signing up for private coverage by drastically reducing outreach for healthcare.gov and promoting various dodges to allow insurance companies to return to discriminating against people in poor health and with preexisting conditions.
Another tactic is by eliminating the individual mandate, an action that discourages the young and healthy from signing up and drives up the cost for others in the market. (Insurers are already planning major premium hikes and stating that that’s the reason.) And don’t forget the promise to slash federal health care “entitlement programs,” i.e. Medicare and Medicaid, after November, to pay for the budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy that were enshrined in the recent Republican tax-scam legislation.
Yes, the healthcare crisis continues, quieter but still deadly. Walden’s responsibility didn’t stop with the defeat of his terrible American Health Care Act proposal (“Trumpcare”) last year. It lives on in all these pieces of Republican sabotage that thrive when we are distracted.
Come November, I’m voting for Jamie McLeod Skinner. She has the integrity, fortitude and critical thinking skills to represent
