I wrote this story and thought it was a very good forum/debate.
I think Pompeo was using some scare tactics about people's taxing going up. That's not going to happen unless you make $200-250,000 a year, and he certainly knows this. He also said health reform will "literally bankrupt Kansas." Presumably he's talking about new Medicaid responsibilities. Here's a Kansas City Star article that debunks that claim. Medicaid costs are rising anyway and the new law will funnel a bunch more federal dollars to states to help cover the added people. Not only that, but Kansas has three years to prepare for the changes.
Goyle, for his part, has distorted Pompeo's record of allegedly "outsourcing" of jobs as a business owner/executive. There appears to be no evidence that jobs were actually eliminated in Kansas to create them in Mexico or China. The general point of Pompeo having business interests in foreign countries and what he might do to protect them is valid, but the outsourcing seems seriously exaggerated.
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All people's taxes will go up. Either because the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, or to cover the costs of the healthcare bill. Obama said when it was being debated that our taxes would not raise one cent. Then after it was passed he said you can't expect to pay for 30 million people without raising costs. Not to mention the fact that private insurance companies are being forced to raise rates to pay for the unfair practices called for by the healthcare bill, such as children staying on their parent's insurance, and not being able to turn away people for pre-eisting conditions. The plan all along has been to run private insurance companies out of business so we are left with no choice but to go to single-payer like Obama has always wanted.
So, 10/12/10 @ 4:54pm, are you ready to accept a position of telling people whose lives could be saved and extended that there will be no cancer treatment because it was pre-existing.
Let's see, a young woman with a precarious pregnancy and just crossed the age threshold to be dropped from her parents insurance. Lets deny her coverage. It fits really well with the whole hypocritcal "pro-life" agenda where you demand that all conceived children be born but turn a deaf ear and blind eye to their suffering as living humans.
Tell a middle aged woman whose been laid off her job after 20yrs of service (because labor in another country was cheaper) and just learned she has breast cancer or some chronic health issue such as fibromyalgia to just tough it out.
No insurance and therefore no health care for you.
Tell all those folks working for small businesses because it helps pay the bills even though the small company cannot afford to pay both health care insurance and payroll, that they and their families deserve to die from treatable ailments because you opppose the current President.
Who is siging up to tell all these people that you decided that decent healthcare is only for the fortunate few.
No one in this country is denied needed medical care. When was the last time you went to the hospital and they turned you away because you didn't have insurance? Never, because that doesn't happen.
As far as bad situations go, everyone has them. Running private insurance out of business and having the government pay for it all by increasing taxes is not the answer. You want to talk about waiting in lines? Rationing? Cutting off treatment? Spending caps? Those are the kinds of things government run healthcare will give us. Just look to Europe and Canada and Cuba.
There is a reason why no Democrats in this mid term election are running on the issues Obama has passed, such as Healthcare and Stimulus. They are bad for the country, and even THEY know it. A person from the Raj Goyle campaign called my house to try to get my vote, and when I asked if Goyle voted for healthcare reform, they guy said "I don't know. That's not here in my notes." They are running from it like it has a torch and a pitchfork.
The republicans have better ideas, such as competition across state lines. Healthcare does need some reform, but government takeover of the healthcare system is not the answer.
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