Rep. Garrett misses the point. With 40 million uninsured in the US, with medical costs being the largest reason for family (and probably business) bankruptcies, with our medical costs being the highest per capita in the world, I don't buy Rep. Garrett's position. ALL other modern westernized countries have some form of medical coverage for all their citizens except the US. We don't seem to have gained any competitive advantage from not having it.

One way or another we all pay.

Did you ever try to use an Emergency room and had to wait because the uninsured use it as their primary care doctor? Preventive medicine would be provided and this would decrease the cost of medical care.

Hold on here, putting 30-40 million on the dole, some may need it i agree but here lys the problem which my family dr. told me, 30 mil put on medicaid/Obamacare but how many millions of doctors will be needed to treat these persons, there will be rationing, waiting months to see a doctor heck we have to wait 2-3 months now, just imagine 30 million more persons to be treated and my doctor stated since they have taken or will be taking 500 Mil for Obamacare he's retiring, pretty scary if you really think about it???? Debbie I agree with what your blogging but you can't force a horse to drink nor can you force a person to lose weight or do what is good and healthy for themselves. I think a solution is if there are less doctors how about NPA's and walk in clinics which the VA is now attempting to do??

Mr Garrett, lead by example. Get off the dole. Give up your government provided health care. Go out on the open market and buy a policy as an individual (hope you have no pre-existing conditions). See what it's like as a REAL small businessperson.

Maybe if limp wrist girly boy Garrett had a set he would bring some jobs into the state to keep people working and on employee healthcare plans. Stealth Garrett seems to stick his head out from the cave he has been hiding in all these years only to complaint. Just like a typical limp wrist girly boy. It's easier to just be a monday morning quaterback than to get down and dirty with the rest of us. This guy could not even tie Cory Booker's shoes. When Garrett gets enough attention, then he goes back into his cave and waits another dozen years to come out again. This guy belongs in a basement playing video games or in a library as a librarian. Or maybe as a Minnie mouse wearing a custom in Disneyland where nobody knows him. These seem to be his best environments. When LaRoche closed the doors to thousands, I don't think we heard from him or any of the politicians. Now look at him in that picture, Mr. Macho man picking on those less fortunate that cannot fight back. Showing off his manicured hands with those limp wrists sticking out of his expensive pin stripe suit. How in the world did he ever land that cushy job?

The non-partisan CBO just announced the ACA will be $ 84 billion cheaper over 11 years since SCOTUS ruled states could opt out of expanded Medicaid coverage. And the same report states the GOP effort to repeal ACA would ADD $ 109 billion to the debt over 10 years.

Just for clarity, "SCOTUS" is the Supreme Court of the United States.

What floors me is the name of the Health Care Law: The Affordable Care Act. Affordable to whom. So far I don't know anyone who will be exempt from the Tax and forced enforcement. You may have what they are promoting as "Free Health Care" but you know what you get for Free. Nothing. Or I forgot, You get a whole lot of something tons and tons of bureaucrats.
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Your correct I do not like the legislation.

If the ACA is so damn wonderful why has the Obama administration issued so many waivers?
Do as I say?
Not as I do?

Spoken in true "I Got Mine And Eff You" fashion by a Tea Party Republican who has received a government paycheck and government healthcare since the fools in NJ-5 bought his "I'm Just Like Marge" line in 2002 -- and continue to send this selfish ideologue to Congress every two years.

I had qualms about the Affordable Health Care Act until Mr. Garret started fulminating against it. If he's against it then I am for it. He has got to go.

http://retiregarrett.com/2012/07/25/why-are-we-running-away-from-the-affordable-care-act/