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Over the past two years, Central and Southside Virginians have witnessed the
negative impacts on their families and businesses as provisions in the
President’s health care law continue to take effect. People throughout the 5th
District have expressed the need to repeal this job-destroying law that places
additional burdens on the American people at a time when we can least afford it.
We have heard many stories from 5th District Virginians about how this law has
impacted their families and their small businesses, and today we hope that you
will share your story with us.
As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of this law, we must
keep in mind that it is the American people that will ultimately decide if this
law is right for our country. The people of the 5th District have spoken, and
they have said we can’t afford the President’s health care law, which will
continue to increase premiums, raise taxes, and ultimately cost us individual
liberties this great democracy was founded upon. The House will continue to work
on your behalf so that we may repeal this law and replace it with
patient-centered solutions that will empower the American people and not the
federal government and create greater access to the affordable, quality care
that you have demanded.
Please take a moment to share your story below about how the President’s health
care law has affected your family, your job, or your small business. You may post your story below or email us here. Thank you.
Quick Facts
• In 2014, the President’s health care law requires all employers with 50 or
more full-time workers to provide insurance or pay fines.
• However, 30 percent or more say they would likely drop insurance and pay
fines.
• President Obama promised that the health care law would reduce premiums by
$2,500 for the average family of four. However, from 2008 to 2011, premiums
increased by nearly $2,200 for the average family according to the Kaiser Family
Foundation.
• The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the law’s new insurance
mandates will increase premiums on the individual market by an additional $2,100
per family by 2016.
• The President’s health care law contains $500 billion in tax increases,
which will begin taking effect in 2013.
• According to the CBO, federal spending on health care will reach 10.7% of
GDP in 2037, up from 5.4% in 2011, much of it driven by the $2.5 trillion in
spending that the health care law provides.
Comments 1-5 of 7
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Melvin Miller
08/30/2012 12:18 PM
I sincerely do not understand how the Affordable Health Care Act is impacting so negatively on the American people when the bulk of it has not been enacted yet. Can you please help me to understand this?
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Pete Marshall
08/07/2012 04:23 PM
Because of the Affordable Care Act, I am getting a rebate on my health insurance premiums as my insurance company was not spending the required 80% minimum of money they took in on health care delivery. (In contrast, Medicare takes only around 5% for overhead). Apparently, Rep. Hurt is fine with insurance companies skimming more than 20% off the top for overhead (read fat salaries for their CEOs) as so far, all I've heard is "We must repeal Obamacare", but no concrete proposals for an alternative which will help all people get affordable coverage. Oh, and why are the Republicans so against the individual mandate when it used to be they were all for it?
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Pete Marshall
08/07/2012 04:22 PM
Because of the Affordable Care Act, I am getting a rebate on my health insurance premiums as my insurance company was not spending the required 80% minimum of money they took in on health care delivery. (In contrast, Medicare takes only around 5% for overhead). Apparently, Rep. Hurt is fine with insurance companies skimming more than 20% off the top for overhead (read fat salaries for their CEOs) as so far, all I've heard is "We must repeal Obamacare", but no concrete proposals for an alternative which will help all people get affordable coverage. Oh, and why are the Republicans so against the individual mandate when it used to be they were all for it?
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James R Maddox Jr
07/05/2012 01:46 PM
My daughter is 21, Married, Pregnant, and no longer lives with us. She just got put back on my insurance, this past November, because both her and her husband are working through Temporary Service providers where they receive no Benefits. President Obama has had 3 and 1/2 years to get this economy going, and he spent his time trying to gain a legacy, with his Healthcare Agenda. What good is Healthcare, if you have no car, no job, and no home to live in? He either does not want the People of The United States to be working and paying taxes and bills, or he does not have the know how to get this economy going. I do not know if Mitt Romney does either, but we gave Obama his chance, by either not voting at all, or voting for him. I say we put a new pitcher on the mound, so that my child, and her child will have a chance to own something. If there were jobs, there would be no excess housing, and the market would right itself, along with the taxes. So this money that he is supposed to be saving me on my healthcare, just blew out the window, because our premiums are really going up now. For the fools who believe in a Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow... how can each pay their equal share, when McDonald's one of the biggest employer has already been exempted from this Healthcare initiative. I say if we are gonna keep it, then Mitt Romney should use an Executive Order and include all of the ones that
have been given exemptions, whether they be Corporations, Cities, Congress or just friends of the Democrats. Let's see how great this Health Care Law settles on their stomachs then. I bet big money will burn D.C. down to get a repeal. -
Barry Rickert
07/01/2012 05:26 PM
Massachusetts has a $1.3 billion dollar shortfall every year in health care costs. This money is made up via taxation to both MA residents and the US tax payer. This shortfall comes from 5% of the residents not paying for insurance. Extend this to 52 states and a population of 300 million the annual shortfall will be $1.2 trillion dollars per year.
Sure, it will be nice that everyone is being covered but it will make no difference if there is no money to pay for it. Greece 2012 is US 2020.