Nice job of looking out for your constituents, Wally Herger.
According to The Committee on Energy and Commerce your time-wasting vote on repealing Health Care Reform would allow insurance companies to deny coverage to 120,000 to 306,000 individuals, including 9,000 to 40,000 children with pre-existing conditions in your own district alone.
The rest of the country would fare no better, as this interactive map of District by District and Metro Area Analyses of the Impact of Repealing Health Reform shows.
Your vote would increase the long-term debt by over $1 trillion, if it had a chance of getting past the Senate and a Presidential veto-- which is about as likely as Mount Shasta erupting in the next week.
How much taxpayer money have you wasted on your futile crusade? What happened to the Republican focus on creating jobs and decreasing the deficit?
Did all the time wasted on debating and voting on this dead-end Repeal bill that will never see the light of day in the Senate (and would be vetoed by President Obama anyway) create a single job in your district? Did it do anything to decrease the deficit?
No, and no. According to the non-partisan CBO, repealing "Obamacare" would increase the long-term debt by over $1 trillion.
You and your fellow Republicans who crassly called this the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" claimed it would eliminate 650,000 jobs. Fortunately, there are still journalists in this country who pay attention to those pesky little things called facts. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press actually fact-checkedthis claim:
What CBO actually said is that the impact of the health care law on supply and demand for labor would be small. Most of it would come from people who no longer have to work, or can downshift to less demanding employment, because insurance will be available outside the job.
Got that? It means that people who hold on to jobs for the sole purpose of keeping their health insurance might just decide to retire, or find a better job. For further excellent analysis of your party's absurd claim see Did Republicans Just Vote AGAINST 650,000 Higher Paying Jobs?
Here is what else your repeal bill would mean to the people of your district. That's the very people you were re-elected (again!) to represent:
Allow insurance companies to deny coverage to 120,000 to 306,000 individuals, including
9,000 to 40,000 children, with pre-existing conditions.
Rescind consumer protections for 348,000 individuals who have health insurance through their employer or the market for private insurance.
Eliminate health care tax credits for up to 14,000 small businesses and 188,000 families.
Increase prescription drug costs for 9,900 seniors who hit the Part D drug “donut hole” and deny new preventive care benefits to 124,000 seniors.
Increase the costs of early retiree coverage for up to 10,400 early retirees.
Eliminate new health care coverage options for 4,200 uninsured young adults.
Increase the number of people without health insurance by 78,000 individuals.
Increase the costs to hospitals of providing uncompensated care by $59 million annually.
Think about this, Wally Herger. Under the current law, 22 year old accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner is eligible under his parent's insurance for mental health services. He cannot be denied for having a pre-existing mental condition. If your repeal had any chance of succeeding, people like him, including anyone previously treated for depression, would be unable to seek the mental health care they and society desperately need.
Just a thought.