As he did last year, my representative, Adrian Smith (R-NE3) has asked for horror stories from his constituents about Obamacare (as he calls it).
I suspect just as last time I responded, I will get a "I'm glad you're having such luck with the programme, but many Nebraskans are losing their insurance."
We had an insurance company fail here recently, which took down a number of policies. The ACA is being blamed for this, because no insurance company ever failed before of course. (/sarcasm)
My response below the orange tumbleweed.
My reply to Representative Smith was:
As a disabled veteran, I receive superb care from the Veterans Administration (despite all the fearmongering in the news about the VA). As noted in Business Week magazine, the VA provides the best care for the lowest cost of any medical system in the United States.
On the other hand, corporate insurance provides nothing to healthcare but skims profits from between doctors and patients and drives up my taxes.
Socialized medicine or single-payer healthcare, which every civilized First World nation has, provides better outcomes at significantly lower costs.
Whilst we are stuck with a corporate model profiting from a human right (healthcare), we continue to fall far below nearly every metric in care against all other OECD nations (except cost, where we excel).
As a fiscal conservative, I am well aware of your desire to lower costs while providing superior care to all your constituents. I strongly urge you, since the Republican Party has not yet advanced any sort of care other than the insurance company death panels and insurance cancellations we had before the ACA, to support fully a move to single-payer health care.
Take the bold stance and show your constituents you care about excessive bureaucracy and endless repetitive paperwork with different standards depending on the hospital corporation and insurance company, by cutting out the middlemen profiteering insurance firms, as all other First World nations have done.
Thu Mar 26, 2015 at 10:34 PM MT: As I recall from last year, when Mr. Smith asked for horror stories, I recall a conservative PAC push poll my wife received in the mail that asked word-for-word the same questions Mr. Smith asked. I wonder if the GOP reps asking this all at the same time is the same as then.
I get the impression, like the diary of the Spokane, Washington representative's Facebook page, the answers will be cherry-picked. I would like to believe my representative will honestly report the information he received, but I doubt it.