In Memory of the late [Stanley] Ann Dunham, mother of President Barack H Obama Jr., who lost her life because she did not have access to proper healthcare, a letter to my congressional rep in Georgia. Feel free to copy and paste, edit and send to YOUR state senators and congressional reps:
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I would appreciate it if you would stop running interference with the “ObamaCare Reconciliation” to repeal healthcare bill. There is nothing “disastrous” about healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act, and it has been more than 125 years since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, first thought it up. It was long past overdue in 2010.

H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, is at its core absolutely wrong and a waste of taxpayer money to continue these repeals. It costs more money to repeal it than to make sure all of the citizens in your District are covered and have access to adequate healthcare. With all of the money spent on repeals, people who do not have health insurance could have been covered 10x over.

I am an “…American people…” and I know plenty of working class people in America who have no healthcare coverage because they can’t afford it. President Obama has worked diligently to stabilize healthcare and make it more affordable for working people.

Increased taxes were going up anyway, and not even lack of healthcare reform was going to stop that because it was never about spending, it was about WHERE the money was being spent in the first place. You cannot “save on” what you never spent.

Premiums are not higher because of “Obamacare,” the Republican version of healthcare reform, but because of the plan President Obama originally proposed was not passed but was torn apart by the GOP and their Blue Dog friends. Your repeated attempts to sabotage it are duly noted, and mainly because Humana, United, CIGNA, and several other premium agencies made it their business to price premiums at the ‘gouge rate’ in order to stiff as many people out of money as possible before healthcare reform became law. Prescriptions are only “costly” now for people who can’t afford to have them for free anyway, prices have gone down considerably, and more people are now insured.

The State of Georgia not only has a legal, but a moral and financial obligation to act responsibly in its own religious “Bible Belt” ideology of W.W.J.D. and make sure that those who cannot afford healthcare premiums are covered regardless.

This is America, and the Lord and Savior would have this no other way. He did not charge people -even the richest amongst Him- for healing, and as America claims to be a “Christian” nation, yet it has none of the character of the Savior’s righteousness or backbone when certain people are left out or left behind in the name of personal and corporate profits. Render unto Caesar, but take care of widows and orphans and the destitute — that is your one and only calling. Rick Warren said so in “The Purpose-Driven Life.”

This healthcare bill has only been “disastrous” because it has been made so by yourselves. Rather than do as our President asked from the beginning, everything has been done to fight against it; and it has cost far more money than premiums and medical care would have cost for you to keep attempting to repeal it.

The Supreme Court said it’s law now and it needs to stay that way. We should never live in a nation that has state laws that require automobile coverage and then lets people get by without covering their health, which certainly should be more important than a CAR.

The burden that has been placed upon us now is the “ObamaCare reconciliation” bill.

There should be no prohibiting funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates because no woman should be forced to have a baby she does not want under any circumstances whatsoever. And we don’t need community health centers, we need individual access to physicians and doctors of our choice made available for everyone so this system becomes economically sound and fair. Human beings should not be dogged and herded into “community health centers” like so much cattle and livestock.

Community health centers should be run by private doctors whose patients have access to them under personal insurance plans, not “cow herding plans” meant to group a certain demographic as one.

Also, those who are not covered in Georgia and have little to no income (poverty wages and less) should automatically be covered by Medicaid if they make less than $35k a year and on a stairstep plan if they make less than $50k.

That is as patient-centered as it gets.

Health insurance paid for on the back end by sending the poorest amongst us to “emergency rooms” for care that is less expensive in a doctor’s office is a waste of taxpayer money. If they can be covered and go to a doctor for $150 as covered upfront instead of running to an emergency room and having hospitals writing off $1500-$2500 per visit and creating a mess of unnecessary paperwork simply makes a lot more fiscal sense than the other way around.

We know that healthcare is cheaper if costs are negotiated upfront. It’s not a matter of saving what you don’t spend, it’s a matter of re-directing wasted funds to a place where the taxpayers get a better deal.

WE reject:
_Repealing ObamaCare coverage subsidies and premium tax credits in 2018
_Repealing Medicaid expansion in 2018
_Eliminating the federal healthcare exchange
_Prohibiting Planned Parenthood from being funded fully; we do not want community health centers, we want FULL access to pregnancy prevention programs as before, which greatly reduces the many MORE poverty-stricken women who would need welfare if forced to have babies they do not want and can’t afford anyway.

WE do agree with repealing the annual individual and employer penalties for not complying with the mandates, because it should be replaced with full Medicaid expansion for non-covered persons living on low-income and poverty wages in the state of Georgia.

The State of Colorado, and several others, was doing the right thing by their residents and American citizens since President Obama was a child and had no clue he was going to be President.

It’s time for the State of Georgia to come into the 21st century and get off the “horse’n’buggy dirt-street 18th century mentalities” about the treatment of its low-income working class and poverty-stricken citizens who have no control over the lack of available jobs or the living wages that companies and corporations refuse to pay.

This should end somewhere and not continue to be a revolving door cycle that deprives the “least of us.” — Matthew 10:42; Matthew 25:40

Thus saith the Lord God “The poor ye shall have with ye alway.” – Mark 14:7 BE a Christian instead of calling yourself one.

And we, The People of the United States of America, thank you.