The repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known by its critics as Obamacare, is a goal of all of Nebraska's Republican congressmen. Unfortunately, these GOP loyalists have been working so fervently on their own improved, cost efficient, vastly superior, post-repeal health care reform plans (cough) that they have neglected to enumerate the many compelling reasons for repeal itself.
Here are a few that they have overlooked:
1. Repeal will re-establish the status quo. Yep. A return to better times when tough- minded private health insurance companies can again deny coverage to people who have been careless, neglectful and irresponsible by contracting those disgusting and avoidable pre-existing conditions such as asthma, genetic disorders, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
2. Back to the good old days. Nothing in Obamacare allows incriminating evidence to be used against an applicant for a health care policy - not so in the past. The private insurer sees that the prospective client has a history of lower back problems, recurring stomach disorders, and some pesky hemorrhoids. Result? Applicant is advised to sit up straight, take prilosec twice a day, and start scratching because these problems will not be covered by the policy. Medical exclusions at their best.
3. Families will be reunited. Students between 18 and 26 years of age will no longer be eligible to remain on their parents' health care policy and must stop being crybabies as they find a way to pay their $150,000 student loans, look for a job, get treatment for bleeding ulcers, and make reservations to move back into mom and pop's basement.
4. Population control. Over 20,000 Americans die needlessly every year for lack of health insurance. With 50 million uninsured (after repeal) we can be assured that the mortality rate will rise even more.
5. Scrapping the care act is charitable. We can again look forward to subsidizing our enterprising friends who save 20 percent of their salaries by not purchasing insurance. After all, what are hospital emergency rooms for if not to accommodate these deserving people at our expense? This "feel good" phase of repeal is where we can see our premiums rise and know it is for charity.
6. Be gone dull care! Yes, why fret if you are a victim of unexpected, catastrophic, health care costs that are not covered by health care insurance? Remember, you are in good company: 62 percent of bankruptcies in America are a result of calamitous health care charges.
R.H.
Ogallala
God Bless America.... long live the unchecked greed
