Affordable Healthcare for America Act
Over two years ago, not against public opinion but against the “Just say, No” far right side of the New Republican Party, President Obama encouraged the 111th Congress to craft reform legislation for our nations healthcare system. I know for a fact how upside down the existing process was. With what had become a totally monopolized industry with interlocking directorates and executive compensation running in the tens of millions of dollars, the Democratic controlled House of Representatives began the process of writing legislation to solve a problem that had been acknowledged for decades by many Presidents, Democratic and Republican alike.
The original House legislation contained a public option, which would have allowed millions of Americans to buy into a government offered health insurance package, similar to Medicaid. At the... end of a two month debate over the House version, the Senate wrote its own plan, which ultimately became what it now referred to as “Obamacare”. The Senate version did not include a public option, which resulted in many Democrats voting against it.
President Obama’s main concern was to help millions of Americans get affordable healthcare and not be locked out of the system because of their gender or a pre-existing conditions. The President was also concerned with the insurance companies unusually low payout numbers and with insurance caps, both yearly and lifetime.
From the time the debate started, Roger Ailes, former media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, directed his Fox News, selective facts machine, to begin a process of demonizing whatever the Obama Administration came up with. This didn’t have anything to do with the particulars of the legislation, but with the ongoing effort to propel negative feelings of our President into the lifeblood of our country. The growing misgivings Senator Hutchinson refers to is a result of three years of such propaganda. Do you really believe the American public has any idea of what’s actually in the “Affordable Healthcare for America” act? I think not.
Once the politically controlled Supreme Court declares the legislation unconstitutional, and declare it unconstitutional they will, the ramifications of its removal will come to light. As we have found with their last Republican leaning finding, Citizen’s United Ruling, we will have to go back to those days when women will have less access to healthcare and pay up to 50% more, when our young adults to age 26 can no longer stay on their parents policies, when our seniors go back to deciding between their medications or food on the table, when bankruptcy will be the only choice if you’re stricken by a life threatening illness, when preventative care is no longer covered, where excessive premium increases are common and when Medicare’s uncertainty is ever present.
But then what does Senator Hutchison care? She has her millions to fall back on and her Cadillac healthcare and retirement plans, compliments of the American People. Only in America do we have a system that allows the “Haves” to misinform the “Have Nots” to make them think a fair system would some how be Un-American.
Get informed, get involved and vote.
Max Martin
Clear Lake City.
Democratic Candidate
United States Congress, Texas 36th District.
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Good luck! 
