The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare is awful news for the vast majority of Suffolk County residents – specifically given our already struggling economy and the excessive burden already shoulder by the taxpayers who live here.
Despite repeated promises from President Obama and Congressman Tim Bishop to the contrary, the so-called “Affordable Care Act” they forced down our throats via backroom deals in Washington, DC has made healthcare LESS affordable for Suffolk County’s working families, seniors and small businesses.
What good is healthcare reform if it doesn’t lower the cost of healthcare?
As I campaign around the district, I repeatedly point to Congressman Bishop’s record of supporting higher taxes, more spending and irresponsible debt during his nearly 10 years in Washington, and explain how those policies have driven more than 30,000 jobs from Long Island.
One of the most unfortunate consequences of this job exodus is that many of our young people are following the jobs to other parts of the country. We are literally losing our future due to horrendous policy-making in Washington by Congressman Bishop and the rest of the politicians.
Unfortunately, the more than $500 billion in tax increases and $500 billion diverted from Medicare that we will be asked to endure will only exacerbate this problem, further cripple our economy and slow job creation. Tim Bishop said Obamacare would be a panacea to our problems, when the reality is that it will only make our problems worse.
Are you as a fed up with business as usual in Washington, DC as I am? Then let’s work together to do something about it.
If we want to change Congress, we need to start by changing the people in Congress – and that includes Congressman Bishop.
With your support, I will fight to repeal Obamacare and replace it with common sense reforms that are outlined in my 10-point jobs plan for Long Island, like lowering the cost of care by enabling insurance companies to compete across state lines and allowing small businesses to pool together to purchase healthcare for their employees; enacting comprehensive tort reform; putting medical decisions back in the hands of doctors and patients, not bureaucrats; and ensuring that we still protect those with pre-existing conditions.
I encourage you to read more about my 10-point jobs plan at www.Randy2012.com/jobsplan and join my campaign to change Washington today.
for reasons other than the causality you suggest, i.e. linking tax rates to prosperity. Seems like an awful lot has changed the overall economic picture since then: all the US led wars, emerge of China as an economic force, same for Japan, Korea, etc. Not saying "can't", just challenging you to explain why prosperity and performance of the economy is linked to overall tax burden. Counter example: China and Germany both have strong manufacturing economies, yet lower corporate tax rates.
"their buffs"? That's a pretty broad statement, one that demands a "show me the data". Could it be that the available jobs pay less than the benefits being paid by unemployment, or the skills don't match? The easy answer is laziness, but I find it really hard to believe that mankind changed overnight to prefer unemployment, when historically the unemployment rates were much lower (which suggests a work ethic that runs counter to your point). Was there a mass "I love unemployment" virus that went around in 2008-2009 that I didn't see in the medical journals? :-)
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Thank you Tim Bishop, tax us some more please.
BTW, who's "We?"
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"We" are the compassionate, cooperative citizens who think that psychopathy is a BAD thing; who empathize with the uninsured; and who are willing to pay higher taxes (should this eventuate) to assure their care.
So happy you received "free money". Try reading what Richard Blumenthal wrote above your post. If you would read it... listen to it... and try your best to understand it, you will clearly see Obama isn't doing ANYONE any favors! He is destroying this country and taking it apart piece by piece and he is being permitted to do this by people just like yourself! Yes, NOTHING comes for free... and at some point even you will be paying it back in one form or another. I agree with Randy as well, we MUST open up health insurance to nationwide competition! We DON'T need more 'Government' controlling our lives. When will you wake up? when he mandates you must go to sleep at 9 and get up at 6? The greatness of this country is FREEDOM not control by someone who believes he is above the constitution and above the law. It's time we show him he has NO RIGHT to do things on his own and no right to rewrite the laws everyone else must abide by!!!
I'm also glad some districts have chosen to excess the teachers who are not turning out students with the proper tools! It's about time teachers are held accountable! Perhaps you weren't one of them, but I've never met a teacher who is more concerned with the quality of education they are affording their students ... than their 'retirement pensions' and medical benefits. The whole concept of not being able to fire some of these characters is pathetic. In my industry if you didn't produce the finest product you would be out of a job!
Sounds like you would thrive in a socialist country. Why don't you try that?
again... you really should consider moving to a socialist country. I think you would be much happier there. Then you would never have to be jealous of those who EARN more than yourself!
believe it or not you SHARE the same country with the republican's and anyone who disagrees with you! So therefore it is also not about YOU as #1 ! All Tim Bishop has done for me is raise my taxes to ridiculous numbers and annoy me with his political phone calls and wasted paper in my mailbox. It's time for NEW BLOOD, NEW IDEAS, and a NEW point of view whether you like it or not.
The 500 billion dollar reductions in Medicare funding haven't been felt yet. They, like many of the less popular aspects of the new law, will not take affect until after the next election. Sadly, Congressman Bishop can offer no guarantees regarding Medicare promises. The healthcare law for which he voted includes the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which has the power to change Medicare policy without getting congressional approval first. He said he'd vote to repeal that board. He did not.
Did you read the act?
If only this made on small iota of sense. How do you purpose we make people pay a fee for something they don't want to purchase or can't afford to purchase in the first place?