AND THE ANSWER IS

AND THE ANSWER IS

(Wall Street Journal, Dylan Stableford)

(Bernice Napach, The Daily Ticker, Rick Newman)

(Lauren Lyster, Morgan Korn, Barbara Heins, Sean Goldrick)

(Al Brecken, Robert Finney, Health and Human Services, Frazer Chronicle)

 

Way to go Affordable Care Act October 1, 2013, you didn’t let those people who oppose Obama-care down, they’ve said for months that “government can’t operate anything smoothly” and already, on the very first day…..glitches appeared kind of like when you call a big box store to inquire about fixing your computer, it’s a sit and wait while your call is re-routed to…..India and some really bad music is played while you wait for somebody that can’t speak English and really has no idea what you’re talking about.

 

Look I personally want Obama-care, or the Affordable Care Act to succeed, I gotta go into the hospital this coming Friday for a week and more, and the stay is gonna wipe my butt out. Oh sure the Affordable Care Act won’t save me the $500 a day it’ll cost me for my stay, and some doctor and his team to break into my chest and fiddle around with my heart…..but it wouldn’t hurt either.

 

Of course those officials that were fielding questions about the foul-ups with the computer programs talked about the possibilities of what happened, and how the “technology (not) doing what it was supposed to do.” People simply did not want to hear that response, especially when some people talk about the negative with regards to government run programs.

 IN WISCONSIN AND MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Roughly 490,000 people under 65 are uninsured, one in every ten, in Milwaukee County one in 7 of those under 65 are uninsured. Unless these people are opting out of health coverage…..for whatever reason, Wisconsin must be a microcosm of most states throughout the country.

 

If one in every ten people is chancing not having to seek medical repairs during their early years (under 65), the United States is in deep trouble. Figure that one in every ten people you meet during the day is unguarded with regards to health care, that my friend is scary in and of itself.

 

I do know that there’s Badger Care here in Wisconsin that is a state program for those people who aren’t insured, but what about those people who fall between the cracks? Wisconsin’s fearless leader, Governor Scott Walker has set a goal of no more than 200,000 uninsured, how he choice that figure escapes me, it doesn’t make any sense.
 

Why is an acceptable number of Wisconsinites who don’t have health insurance set at 200,000, why not 171,000, or 301,000…..and how about -0-, isn’t that a nice round number. Does a broken leg hurt less if you have health insurance; is delivering a baby less complicated if you have health insurance?

 

Everybody needs to have access to health care, and under an all encompassing plan, and no, health care, and the access to…..is not a constitutional right…..but it is the right thing to do. Enough of this weak bull-crap about small business suffering, and having to shuffle around looking for a plan that they can afford…..we need to take the problem out of everybody’s hands, and put it squarely in the Federal Governments domain, where it belongs.

 

 THE GULLIBLE OF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED

Obama-Care is the law of the land, and the Supreme Court reaffirmed Obama-Care, or the Affordable Care Act, yet many Republican Congressional members are hell-bent to defund it. Lost in the battle are those people that will be affected by it.

 

Health care premiums won’t necessarily rise; it’ll depend on where you buy your insurance, and will include the state you live in and the locality, also your age as well as your income. If you have a health condition you may see a decrease and if you don’t, you may see an increase.

 

Another myth of Obama-care is that its enactment will cause a vast number of small businesses to cut back employees hours, and some bigger companies to eliminate positions. It’s simply not true, the extra costs will be passed on to you-know-who…..us, the consumer. I really can’t understand these scare tactics that are used whenever one political party opposes the other over a controversial issue…,.and both sides of the aisle are guilty of this practice.

 

And Congress is not exempt from the law…..the law is for everybody, white, black, green yellow and red, and capitol hill officials aren’t above the law…..at least in this instance. However the Federal Government can help pay for the premiums of that coverage, just as it does now under the Federal Employees Health Benefits for Congress staffers.

 

It is a fact of our lives that a vast majority of us simply do not trust government, so it makes it easy when we get conflicting messages from our government. So we have to be willing to take the time to examine what information we do get before we make an assessment, and finally formulating our opinions, and sadly we aren’t very good at assimilating the information that we do get.

 

HERE’S WHAT TO DO

Here’s how to approach the question(s) of the Affordable Care Act, it’s not a secret, or a special recipe for success…..and opposed to what some people are saying, or thinking, neither Republicans nor Democrats want to see our government FAIL. I’ve heard that ludicrous and frankly bizarre accusation from conservative talk show hosts as well as sources from the printed media…..and television stations like Fox and Friends….. it’s simply not true, quit being so gullible.

 

Picture a new restaurant that opens on your block, do a majority of people rush down to sample the bill of fare or let a neighborhood friend take the initial plunge. That’s right, most of us wait until we hear how things are, menu winners are perfected and the dogs or flops are remedied.
 

Health insurance exchanges will need time to sort out the bad apples and practices just like any other brand new program. If we do it for the restaurants or a tool that we are considering purchasing, why can’t we do the same for an issue as complicated as health care.

 

And yes, you heard it here first…..the Affordable Care Act is complicated, there are millions of families that are going to be effected by this brand new way of dealing with a health care program, so we need to give it some time to smooth out the rough edges…..we owe it to OURSELVES!   

 

The Affordable Care Act has worked…..in Massachusetts as well as Connecticut, initiated by none other than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney…..and copied several years later by another Republican governor, Jodi Rell of Connecticut. How did it work, exceptionally well, attested to by both Republican governors as well as a vast majority of the citizens in both states.

 

Yet when Romney decided to run for the presidency, he decried the plan and a state Republican Senator, Scott Frantz called the health care act that had been in place in both Massachusetts and Connecticut anachronistic, out of touch and potentially devastating to the economy and to business.

 

This is classic mis-information…..and needs to be addressed for what it is…..bull----, it’s the kind of dribble that happens all the time in Washington…..and we need to have our facts straight to debunk the accusations for what they really are.

 

After the dust settles (there is a time set aside for just that) we can individually decide what is best for each and every one of us. I for one can’t afford $500 a day charges for a hospital room, $75 band aids and $25 aspirin. Oh yeah, don’t forget that gauze and athletic tape at $10 an inch, or the food @$%*&^+ that I’ll be eating for (God only knows) how much.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!