November 15, 2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear Congressman,
Re:
Individual mandate
Are there
no depths to which your Republican colleagues will not sink in their
unremitting attack on the Affordable Care Act? There can be no explanation for
their implacable opposition unless it is sheer spite, directed against the
legacy of a former president who was beloved by most people in this country.
The fact that your current (Republican?) president is despised by an equal
number is, I suppose, adding fuel to this particular fire.
The
latest attack on Obamacare takes the form of an attempt to eradicate the
individual mandate appended to the so-called (wildly unpopular!) “Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act,” which your colleagues in the Senate are trying to ram down the
throats of the reluctant American public. It’s being used, as I understand it,
to help reduce the bill’s disastrous increase of the deficit. The elimination
of the mandate—and the resulting loss of huge numbers of the young and healthy
from the subscriber base—will remove a vital supporting leg of the health care
system and likely cause it to topple. No doubt this is the intended
consequence.
If and
when this cruel and ill-thought tax bill reaches the House of Representatives
for a vote, is it too much to ask that you oppose it, on behalf of those many
in your district who would suffer as a result? They stand to lose not only a
health care system that is now widely appreciated and gaining popularity, but
also to be saddled with a tax “reform” that most benefits the wealthiest among
us.
Respectfully,
Peter
Clothier, Ph.D.
P.S. I saw you quoted in yesterday’s online
New York Times as saying: “I did not go to my constituents and ask them to vote
for me in order to increase their tax load, and the bill increases the tax load
on a big chunk of my constituency.” I urge you to abide by your own words, and
vote NO!
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