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Braley’s health response ignores concerns
Rep. Bruce Braley’s website claims my thoughts and concerns are important to him. Unfortunately, his responses are no more than talking points similar to those of Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Dave Loebsack.
I contacted Rep. Braley on his website and expressed my concerns with ObamaCare, specifically: the impact on the national debt, rationed health care, 21 new taxes, shortage of doctors, doctors increasingly refusing Medicare patients, and the $500 billion cut from Medicare.
His response was a proud statement that he had voted for the bill and made reference to the extended coverage for those with preconditions, students remaining on parent policies (until age 26) and the alleged reduction of prescription drug costs.
Granted, these are positive aspects and talking points of ObamaCare, but Braley did not respond to my concerns. Democrats in Congress don’t like to be confronted about other consequences of ObamaCare, such as the thousands of Internal Revenue Service agents being hired to investigate your health insurance.
Keep your doctor, your insurance and pay less for health care? Sure, just like them there shovel-ready jobs!
Ronald Boyer
Cedar Rapids
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So, Mr. Boyer, just how specific were you in your “concerns” about the ACA? How much homework did you do before you asked your Congressman for help?
It took me less than two minutes just now to find a series of very informative articles published by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and prepared by their independent Office of the Actuary. You can read them too, at http://tinyurl.com/bmzlhz6
Or might it be that you’re more interested in slamming Mr. Braley than you are in finding information on the ACA? Were your questions general or specific? How familiar were you with the provisions of the law before you contacted Mr. Braley? Were you simply depending on what talking heads say, or did you actually do some investigating on your own?
In short, are you an informed voter, or are you a sheep?
Mr Boyer,
The simple fact is that our elected officials do not have the manpower to send back personal replys to those that make inquiries. Form letters are usually sent out with the message that official wants to use on that particular subject. I have had similar experiences with Sen. Grassley’s office. I may be against something he is backing, but the response letter I receive back (usually several weeks later) is a form letter about how proud he is to back the very item I’m against. Suffice to say that the office usually tallies peoples opinions as for or against something, but then lump them all together when they send out the form letters.
Braleys vague response was most likely due to the fact that he maybe hasn’t read the bill he passed or it wouldn’t be prudent for him to answer the tough questions.
My experiences with Harkin & Loebsack has been much the same as Mr. Boyer. Took so long to get a non response I had forgot my question, so of course the non response didn’t help to jog my memory whatsoever. However, Loebsack did throw in a picture of himself with a few serviceman.