Democrats’ Government Takeover of Healthcare Continues to Reveal New Flaws
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Jason Altmire (PA-04), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Dennis Cardoza (CA-18), Russ Carnahan (MO-03), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Cooper (TN-05), Jim Costa (CA-20), Jerry Costello (IL-12), Mark Critz (PA-12), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Joe Donnelly (IN-02), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Martin Heinrich (NM-01), Brian Higgins (NY-27), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Kathy Hochul (NY-26), Tim Holden (PA-17), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Jay Inslee (WA-01), Steve Israel (NY-02), Bill Keating (MA-10), Dale Kildee (MI-05), Ron Kind (WI-03), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Brad Miller (NC-13), Bill Owens (NY-23), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Gary Peters (MI-09), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), David Price (NC-04), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Heath Shuler (NC-11), Adam Smith (WA-09), Betty Sutton (OH-13), John Tierney (MA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-05), Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Tim Walz (MN-01), David Wu (OR-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
As Takeover Continues, Americans Finding Even More Expensive Problems Buried in the Details
Washington — The Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare continues to unravel and reveal costly new problems, yet Heath Shuler stands by the law since he blocked efforts to repeal it earlier this year. Another unintended consequence of Shuler’s Democrat healthcare law was revealed recently, which would let millions of new people onto Medicaid even though the program is already at the breaking point. The result would force Medicaid costs to skyrocket even higher while the cost of healthcare for all Americans will also rise under pressures caused by the healthcare law Shuler and his fellow Democrats refused to repeal.
“The Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare continues to reveal new consequences not shared with the American people before it was forced into law, and yet Heath Shuler still defends it,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Despite the promises from Shuler’s Democrat leaders, this is yet another instance of how their ill-informed healthcare law will actually make treatment more expensive for all Americans. Shuler should support a repeal of his party’s disastrous healthcare law instead of piling even higher medical bills on North Carolina’s middle-class families.”
It was only recently discovered that the Democrats’ complicated government takeover of healthcare would let millions of new people with higher incomes receive Medicaid benefits:
This twist could cost additional hundreds of billions of dollars that we don’t have:
This would be in addition to the financial shockwave already about to hit the program, which will drive healthcare prices up for everyone:
“As a result, costs can be expected to rise in other parts of the health care system. Cuts in Medicaid payments to doctors, for example, make it less likely that they will accept Medicaid patients and more likely that people will turn to hospital emergency rooms for care. Hospitals and other health care providers often try to make up for the loss of Medicaid revenue by increasing charges to other patients, including those with private insurance, experts say.”
(Robert Pear, “As Number of Medicaid Patients Goes Up, Their Benefits Are About to Drop,” The New York Times, 6/15/11)Heath Shuler will find it even more difficult to continue defending the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare as more consequences appear. The more Americans learn about the law, the less they find to like about it as they see healthcare costs skyrocket and jobs being threatened under an already fragile economy.