Congressman Jack Kingston - First District of Georgia

This cannot be done away fast enough. If this is fully implemented this great nation will be in as bad shape as it was in it was during the great deoression. As we have been told by our parents and grandparents.

I think you should have not went about trying to repeal the entire health care bill at one time, should have broken it up in parts and start with the mandate that has the taxes to be collected by the IRS first and then went from there with other parts of it. Thats the only way its gonna get overturned.

While I would have preferred a single payer health care system, I support President Obama's health care plan. At least it has done what hasn't been done in over 50 years, no pre-existing conditions that denys health coverage for some people, kids can stay on their parents plan til they are out of college. It covers more children in need. Also, it does not fund abortions, it never has, this is just a lie you republicans have used to divide people. Yes, there could be improvements, and I hope you will work in the interest of the people to improve health care. We still will have many people it's too expensive for, and I don't believe healthcare should be a "trickle down" program.

I dispute most of the reasons you took the action to support a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. There are statistics, supported by budget analysis, that there will be many offsetting factors that make this legislation less expensive when fully implemented. Eliminating the millions who did not have insurance prior to this legislation will reduce pressure on insurance costs. This was pointed out by Senator Jim DeMint to then President Bush a number of years ago. Access to prenatal care among poor pregnant woman along will have a major influence on health insurance costs. I think the U.S. ranks about 40 in infant mortality. I like what you plan to do to rectify the damage repeal of this legislation will do to so many, but I don't see any time line. It has taken over forty years to get the Affordable Care Act through Congress and by the Supreme Court. How many years do you think it will take to pass your proposed changes? Have you been reading the responses to the Affordable Care Act by doctors, who do not want to through the "baby" out with the bathwater? The AMA, etc.

Though not opposed to Health care reforms, I do not agree that we should continue to fight a battle over the polarizing reforms which are keeping us the most important issue of our day common sense financial issues. Spending cuts, tax law reform(simpler), and medicare/medicaid, and social security adjustments that make sense. I am in the middle class and fear that the health care legislation, and lack of action by congress is what is causing me to loose more each month. Soon I will no longer be in the middle class. In act reforms now that have a mix of all income and spending reductions with long term deficit reduction.

Being fortunate enough to have employer sponsored health insurance I have been terrified since Obamacare was forced upon us I have been terrified that we would lose our insurance. I have yet to see any insurance that if we had to buy it we could afford it. Our deductibles would be so high that in order to pay the deductible we couldn't pay the premium. The reforms that you have proposed sound reasonable and affordable. I know that there are numerous tests done everyday that could be eliminated if the doctor had more protection from lawsuits. We have received records requests from lawyers in some cases before we have received the final reports. There should be penalties for these frivolous lawsuits that seem to be filed every time time someone has an auto accident.

We need to be smart about repealing Obamacare. Some of the provisions of the bill are for the good of the people. However, the Democrats (and Obama) have and will further claim that the Republicans have offered no alternatives. So, to execute a pre-emptive strike on the Dems - why don't you, Jack, sponsor bills that deal with the health care crisis by taking smalls swipes at our problem and at the same time deal with the reality of the situation. Sponsor a two part bill immediately that: prevents insurance companies from not covering or raising the rates of people with pre-existing conditions and the second part would deal with tort reform. Pass this bill or if the Democrats in the Senate shoot it down - we win either way. Then move on to sponsor a bill that deals with another set of our concerns - but let's be smart and do it incrementally. If we whittle away at the problems with health care, the Democrats wouldn't have a leg to stand on - and they know it. Change one small part at a time and fix health care the right way.

We The People should have no less htan the very same health care coverage that we foot the bill for our elected officials - ie: Senators and Congressmen and woman, as well as the President. If you REALLY want to make affodable and quality healthcare options for the American people, pass a law that will make it mandatory for ALL elected officials to utilize the same options that they feel are adequate for the taxpayers and out families. Only when you have to pay the same premiums and receive the same sub-standard treatment from insurance companies as the rest of us do, will you will become more interested in healthcare reform.

Well, let me start by saying I Am for the law! After studing it, it provides insurance for those uninsured, it provides limitations on for-profit companies of 20% to run the companies and therefore limits CEO's, etc within the companies from making money off our backs! It rebates money to us if 80% is not used on our healthcare. About time someone look out for our interest!Oh, and btw I have insurance thru the federal gov't and have worked in healthcare for over 30 years. It will also bring down cost by not making us either thru tax dollars or increased pricing at the point of care to pay for those that do not have any or have been out priced by insurance companies for the sake of profits. And don't tell me it won't. I'd rather pay to make sure all have access then to see those who need it and can't get it....NOT HAVE IT! And don't spew that BS about abortions. The provision do not provide for abotions except for in the case of danger to the mother, rape and a few other cases.

The Obama health care bill is nothing but a political gimmick and needs to be repealed immediately. The proposal that you have made seem to absolutely be the answer.

Thanks for voting to repeal Obamacare. I hope I can also count on you to vote against any U.N. treaty that infringes on my 2nd Ammendment rights.

According to Factcheck the 800,000 lost jobs is a fallacly. It refers to full time jobs becoming part time jobs and people who are working just to keep their health insurance, retiring or leaving the workforce. The jobs don't go away.

I will fight your actions to repeal health care law with every breath and ounce of energy I possess. It is not a perfect program, but a start in the right direction. We are the ONLY "1st World" nation that does NOT have universal health care and our statistics prove it. We have the capacity to provide the best health care, but it is not reaching most people. I work with dialysis patients; the MAJORITY of this very high priced treatment (mostly through Medicare and Medicaid) could be prevented in many cases if these individuals had access to preventive care. High blood pressure and diabetes are the two major causes of kidney failure; both are treatable illnesses with medication, diet, teaching and monitoring. There are many in the work force who cannot afford either health insurance or basic health care. This is work on every human and ethical level I know of. You are not taking care of your voter base, Mr. Kingston.

Now, let me evaluate Romneycare. It provides a 50% penality to those who do not carry it on top of the premium. Taken out of their taxes when they file. Well, gee if you all had been smart..you'd taken that earned income tax credit away from the druggies, and the others that have low income and provided insurance for them, better alternative than having nothing and throwing the money I pay in away. But guess it makes more since to let them buy drugs with it or cars or furniture. Hell, they even sell their food stamps for 50% of the worth... Waste, just waste. Gee, and no protection for the consumer or the working class. And you knew Hilary was working on it for years. You had to know it was coming soon, why did your party not come up with and present another plan? And beating this dead horse to death now, instead of voting on the jobs bill is just another stall of the Republican party. Another assault to the working class paying for all this BS. People need to get back to work and start paying into the system. It is not about partylines, it is about America! And the job you were went there to do. Now, if the Republican party has a better plan, instead of repeal perhaps present it in Congress. But I suspect that none of you have made any effort to do that. Why? I suspect if reports are right, the Insuance Companies in GA that lobby have many of you in their pockets! I have read the reports of the some 9000$ that these companies pay legislators to vote their way. And this inability of the Republican Congress members that can not give up partylines, have impeded the recovery of this Country....because Obama is not playing politics the way Washington likes to play. About time someone stopped the ASSAULT to the American worker. And when you consider the abortion of a child in GA(like that is an issue), and almost 25% or more of Georgian preganant women get their healthcare thru health departments....say volumes about this state. Also, that we have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the Country. Seems repeal is a good idea, don't YOU think. Not to mention that the gov't pays 100% of the funding for the program for the first few years and then that goes to 90%! Now, how bad can that be? Repeal, then replace it! And not with some crap like Romneycare to protect Insurance Companies! And to think you sensor this, is absurd. What are you afraid of? A debate? Or the truth? Certainly seems to be a two edged sword. I have voted Republican for over 20 years but am probably going to jump ship this year, and from this year forward. So is most of my family and all the Gov't workers I work with. Guess most of you have blown it for sure. Time to get with the program or get out.

I thank God that we have you representing us and and that you will do your best to uphold our Consitution and Bill of Rights! Thank you for standing with us..

I think covering those of us with pre-existing conditions and covering kids until they are 26 and making sure everybody in the United States gets the health care that is their right (as in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) is wonderful. I wish you would so some concern for your consituents and not just the big money insurance companies and get behind this bill. And you know no money from the bill is going to abortion, so get off it already. A lie told many times is still a lie.

Repeal the Obamacare and pay back the SSI fund. Care for legal citizens first then minimal humane care for illegals. Help everyone understand that Medicare/Medicaid is not an entitlement but an isurance program I paid into all my life.

Repealing this law is the first step towards correcting what I see as a disastrous, ill-conceived concept that even its proponents admit is going to do wreak damage across all levels of our lives, and ultimately cause more harm than benefit us. But in my opinion, one extremely important thing has come directly from it: it has shaken the American people out of a growing legthargy where government was concerned. People who might not ordinarily pay that much attention to the workings of their own government have recognized that the arrogant, dictatorial approach used to force the health care law onto the American taxpaper, despite our questions and objections, goes against what we are as a people. It has engendered anger and indignation that I see as very similar to our reactions against Great Britain's imposition on us of taxes and penalties as colonists. It is a relief to me to see that despite our differences, we still have the capacity to object as Americans to what we perceive as wrong, and that when our own government crosses a line, we recognize it and stand up.

Please show at least a shred of ethics and stop lying about the Affordable Health Care Act to the folks who pay your salary. Yes, it's lies by omission, but lies none the less. Even worse, you try to involve the CBO in your deceptions. Let me pick just a few examples. You state the CBO says that premiums for a family will rise by $2,100. You conveniently neglect to note that more than half the 32 million people expected to seek their own coverage in 2016 would be eligible for subsidies that would REDUCE their premiums by 50 to 60 percent. Further, for all those people, the CBO found that premiums would actually be 7 to 10 percent LESS than equivalent insurance under the old law because of increased essential benefits. You omit that too. Come on, Jack, be honest with your fellow citizens.

I agree...Obama Care must be repealed. It is bad policy, bad law, and very badly established.

The Obama administration is also posting a lot of non truths about the healthcare bill, stating that they're saving money. These posts are all over Facebook and other places. Why do people keep believing the lies.

Mr Kingston, My confidence in you and the Republican Party has been seriously flawed over the past term of President Obama. Your statistical expressions in this announcement adds fuel to only your political agenda for the upcoming election. Adjustment on the Healthcare Plan are in order, but I fully support Health Care being available for every American by any means necessary. Your party has no solution, only criticism. Your ultimate campaign agenga has been consistent since loosing the presidential election and has persuaded the change from my Independance status to the Democratic Party.

Jack Kingston's outline for a REPLACEMENT health car law is a great place to start. Dem's and liberals complain that the republican's are offering no alternative to Obamacare. So, here is an outline of one that needs to be developed into a working document.

Well the bottom line is the US government is way out of control in spending and infringing on our constitutional rights. The congress voting for laws and benefits that are above what everyday Americans can attain. Why in some cases , its legal to have insider trading for elected officials, that is considered illegal for the rest of our population. Just pile up all the benefits after one term, and its a great package that anyone would try to attain. The government does nothing well, and no doubt we are now moving from socialism to marxism. Don't get me wrong Jack, as you are doing an exemplary job for all these years as the freshman class, but if we don't see some radical change, we will all lose in the end because of the greed of our elected officials, you being the exception. I'm sure that eventually we will see a bankrupt governments and Georgia's withdrawal from the union, as this road is leading us to destruction. It's pretty simple, the government has to live within its means ! One other point! Everyone has hears about Greece throwing the world in economic Chaos, they are in trouble because their debt level is 56% of GDP, The United States is 52% of GDP and alarm bells are ringing, but the system keeps on spending. Very sad indeed!

Oh did I foret that the attmepts to repeal has cost te American public, 54 million dollars........Wasteful!!!! So wasteful.... How many jobs could that have created and how many people would that have put back to work? Better get to thinking JACK!

All agree current system deeply flawed. Republican solution simply extends this deeply flawed system. If we adopt Congressman Kingston's suggestions, five years down the road we will have many more uninsured, medical bankruptsies will continue to climb, bureacratic hassles will magnify (because of all the individual policies from a multide of private insurers who charge 20% or more overhead) and only then will we realize that the not so free free market just doesn't work for health care.

Thank you for voting to repeal the most expensive TAX ever voted on in the history of our country. I wish people would take the time to read and understand the law and not just pick and choose the parts they want to believe in. Misinformation is causing most people to distrust the reasons you are trying to repeal the law when they should be supporting your efforts and applauding you. Nothing in this life is free and what Washington gives it must take from someone else or borrow, plain and simple. We have now borrowed ourselves into a deep pit and must start digging out. I hope you do come up with a solution for those with pre-existing conditions and those whose struggle to pay for insurance. On another note: I am pro-life and want to reply to those who don't think Obamacare subsidizes abortions. READ THE LAW! If a plan allows for abortions you cannot opt out and have to pay a premium, you have no choice. Here is the language straight from the law. Here is what the law says: (3) RULES RELATING TO NOTICE.—‘‘(A) NOTICE.—A qualified health plan that provides for coverage of [abortions other than in cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother] . . . shall provide a notice to enrollees, only as part of the summary of benefits and coverage explanation, at the time of enrollment, of such coverage.

If we are going to have health care reform, let's go in a direction where we have portable, national and life-time coverage. I am less concerned with free or subsidized cost coverage, than i am with linking it to who we work for, or what health group I was with before. Give us care that stays with u as an individual, regardless of where we live within the USA, regardless of whowe work for, and regardless where and when in our life cycle our health care needs to be addressed. Make sure that our health care insurance/coverage is portable throughout space and time, cradle to grave This requires us to un-link health care coverage from specific employers and specific insurance companies. It also requires us to eliminate pre-existing condition limitations. If empoyers want to keep paying/subsidizing premiums as a benefit, let them go ahead an pay it for employees. As to the jobs killer thing, if there are 800,000 jobs at stake by changes, that just means there are needless layers of administration or make-work in place. Sorry, but deadwood clearing in the workforce is jst a natural process of life and economic activity. Downside of changes: a whole lot of people need to figure out realy quickly what else they can do to make a living. Hang on to the old way, you are hanging on to a dinasaur - and I don't know as if I like the dinasaur hanging around. Examples abound of changes already made in society, no government involved. For example, there are not too many video rental stores open any more; 20 years ago, there were thousands. Not many film developers around anymore, either. Newspapers only sell 40% of what they did just 10 years ago; that'll probably be ZERO in another 10 to 15 years. Technology and appoaches change. Most of them involve job elimination, toward lower-cost alternatives. You are right, Mr. Kingston, our collective governmetal debt load IS too high. This health-care stuff needs to be implemented on a pay-as-we-go basis. And Congressmen and Senators alike have to focus on paying down what's already been spent. You are correct, we can't afford to use tax dollars or borrow more to pay for ths program. We have some tough choices ahead. I want the health care reforms. I am willing to give up some things to get it.

Thank you for voting to repeal Obamacare. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that paying a private insurance company for a product can be enforced by a penalty "tax" enforceable by the Internal Revenue Service. As I am a Christian whose religion believes in the sanctity of human life, and since Obamacare funds abortions and requires insurance companies to cover abortions, contraception, and euthanasia (by not covering health care to the elderly), I will refuse to pay for such insurance or tax on religious grounds. Such religious grounds are extended to Muslims (who, along with illegal aliens, will have free healthcare under Obamacare) because, under Shariah law (which enforces Islamic principles found in the Qur'an and sira/haddiths) they are forbidden to buy insurance. Such submission to Shariah law over and above U.S. law being accommodated by President Obama will also need to be challenged in the courts as unconstitutionally establishing one religion above the rest and as sedition. We will see how unconstitutionally discriminating Obamacare is in allowing religious exemption beyond that for Muslims. Another objection to Obamacare is its socialistic nature which undermines a democratic republic such as the United States of America and gives the federal government more control than intended by the Constitution. For these reasons and as a citizen, I am expecting the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) be repealed.

These ideas to replace obamacare are exactly what needs to be done but, we need to hear them from Romney, also! Why doesn't he talk about these ideas? He needs to explain, in detail, what obamacare is going to do to us, doctors, the debt, and the economy. I am scared to death of obamacare. Why aren't we hearing more about these replacement ideas from more conservatives like John Boehner, etc. Maybe then, some liberals and independents might wake up!

I am a nurse, I work in a hospital. My patients tell me every day, they do not have insurance and they are not going to pay the bill when it comes. This is the reason the cost of healthcare is so high. Thanks to the Patients Bill of Rights passed in the 1990s, every state had to pass a law that made it illegal for doctors and hospitals to refuse to treat people without insurance. It was for this reason that conservative republicans originally introduced the idea of the individual mandate. Now that democrats have actually latched onto a great idea, now, it's an attack on our liberty?? Why was this ok when republicans were talking about it, but not now? Also, Obamacare requires insurance companies to spend 80% of the money they collect on health costs. The Department of Health and Human Services has established rules for what health costs are, and insurance companies were told that their costs of sales and advertising were not included. I would like to have the CBO take another look at this law since their last report did not include the regulations set forth by HHS. I am willing to bet it will be dramatically different.

Obamacare is now the law of the land, and while it may require refinements in the process of its application - and this may take years - it is a starting point in bringing stability and justice to a healthcare system that is unwieldy, unsustainable, unjust and designed to fit the needs of a greedy insurance industry.

It's refreshing to finally hear a proper approach & framework of a solution to what must be addressed -- national healthcare. A nation wide, government managed plan is an impossibility. Quantity & quality of care will suffer while cost will skyrocket, resulting in the choice between severe increases in taxation or ultimate national bankruptcy. The ponderous problem requires: 1. Effective, sober & politically free identification of the component parts; 2. Develop component solutions through private/bi-partisan public sector cooperation; 3. Coordination of the component solutions; 4. Mid course changes as developing experience dictates.

Get over it and respect the Supreme Court decision. Instead of wasting taxpayer dollars to try to repeal this law, why not pass legislation to give every American the same health care package that you, as a member of Congress enjoy?

We need serious overhaul of insurance companies. We need reform of their practices of denying needed medical tests and refusal to cover certain medications. They are, in effect, telling the doctors how to treat the patients. This approach to healthcare is wrong. We need to repeal socialized medicine in all forms and give the medical decisions back to the trained professionals, the doctors, and let them do their jobs. The sooner we can repeal Obamacare, and take the medical decisions out of the hands of the insurance companies, the better off we will be.

I agree with you reasons you put forth for repealing Obamacare. I also like the steps you would propose to take to fix our health care system. But has the GOP in the House actually proposed a bill that would replace Obamacare? The GOP has to do more that simply proposing to repeal this bad law. They need to put forth to the voting public a plan, in clear and simple language, about how you will fix the system. In other words, you need to do more than simply oppose Obamacare, You need to offer an alternative that the pubic can understand

Why can't we have the same coverage and premiums as our elected officials? There is still so much that is not known about the health care law and I agree it's not perfect but it seems to me that the Republicans had years to do something about health care and did absolutely nothing to address the problems until this law was passed. Now the Republicans are coming up with all of these ways to make health care better. Where were you years ago with these ideas? Health care is a serious problem in this country and something needs to be done and should have been done a long time ago. Premiums are out of site and most families just can't afford it.

I am 100% behind repeal, however Republicans seem to be so stuck on repeal that they have forgotten to explain to us how they plan to replace after they repeal! We need new talking points on this. Insurance companies are in business to make money whether it is from the expanded ACA (ObamaCare) or another plan. The dirty little secret of ObamaCare is that Big Insurance is happy to see it because it reduces their risk by spreading all health risks across all Americans (eventually.) SO, how are Republicans going to deal with that??? I don't know because they haven't gotten very good at explaining their plan. The points covered above (Reform Liability, Competition across state lines, HSA expansion, etc.) are meaningless until Republicans understand how to articulate them to the public. I think Dr. Tom Price (R-GA) has a good plan, but it is not being strongly articulated or advanced. When Americans understand that opponents to ObamaCare have a better idea, I think they will openly embrace it. Until then, it is too little, too late.

It appears that the moochers will now have to pay their fair share of health insurance ( need) instead of spending all their money on things (wants). If everyone supports and pays for their health care that can afford it, then what is it to the Republicans that continually want to repeal it. Companies should be insuring their employees that make them the profit; otherwise it is called "slave" labor. The Republicans need to take on the insurance companies that are driving the premiums up - not the insured paying the premium! Everyone knows the insurance companies set the rate to support the doctors and hospitals and keep them in a profitable and well heeled status. Its time for Congress to get off the insurance lobby election support and set the maxium premiums that can be charged and thereby controll the cost of health care. Stop blaming Obama and look at who is charging who.

First, let me thank you for representing the majority of people on the issues of Health Care and abortion. 1. the health care bill was passed without represenation from the majority of people as they(Democrates) met behind closed doors and only the democractic party voted for the bill; they had the majority in the senate - Not one republican voted for this ill written bill. Now in the House Republicans as well as Democrates have voted to repeal. This seems to me to be more representative of our people. 2. Not one of those in the majority in the senate will pass a Medical Liability bill or an interstate insurance reform. The majority are Democrates whose backgrounds are from the legal field who are lobbied not to even permit it to the floor. What hypocracy. Democrates use to stand for a democratic nation which was governed by our constitution. Now they seem to be socialists working toward finding ways to work around our constitution. 3. As for those in Dialysis units, one has said these conditions necessitating dialysis could have been prevented - yes, you are so right - however, most of these people have received health education and provided preventive treatment for which they do not follow through to take care of themselves and as a result have to have dialysis. 4. Abortion - A quick summary: the mother's blood never mixes with the infants. Blood type is determined by the father and only circulates through the infant; thereby, is considered a separate person. Under the constitution individuals are to be protected.Please stand firm and keep on defending our constitution and our rights to worship God and bring God back into our government and schools. It is our only chance.

Romney is “the father of health-care reform,” said Gruber. “I think he is the single person most responsible for health care reform in the United States. … I’m not trying to make a political position or a political statement, I honestly feel that way. If Mitt Romney had not stood up for this reform in Massachusetts … I don’t think it would have happened nationally. So I think he really is the guy with whom it all starts.” FROM; MSNBC.COM If Obamacare is so bad then why has not the Congress of Massachusetts repealed it? What is the 3rd. leading cause of deaths in the U.S.A.? DOCTORS! (American Medical Association article illuminates the failure of the U.S. medical system in providing decent medical care for Americans.) http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm Our mortality rate 27th in the world yet we pay three times as much for Health Care right now. In countries including Canada, Australia, Israel, Germany, Sweden, and Austria and others have higher life expectancies, many of those offering universal health care, which we do not. The tiny country of Cyprus has the same life expectancy as that of the United States. Is our lifestyle and culture as healthy as it could be? FACTS ARE THE ONLY ENEMY OF TRUTH. Jack does not like the so called "Obamacare" Yet, he has nothing to offer up that's better. WOW!!

Do it Jack. Repeal that piece of socialist crap. I can't believe how many people there are is this nation who wants the rest of the citizens to take care of something that is their responsibility. One other little bit of information for those of you who want Obamacare. Stand by for some long waits to just to see a doctor. My daughter in law, a family practice doctor, says she is looking to go back to school and change careers. Recent polls indicate that approx 80% of our doctors are contemplating getting out of medicine if Obamacare is not repealed!

Thanks Jack. I think you are right on re criticism and recommendations. Evidence based and managed health care must become our bywords- not 159 federal govt agencies to make decisions and policies. Retired pediatrician and Blue Cross Vice President

One of your employees, Mr. Kingston, told me just last week that "everyone has access to healthcare. Everybody has something." That couldn't be farther from the truth. There are hard-working, honest, patriotic citizens in among your constituency who, through no fault of their own, cannot purchase health care. There are young people who are uninsured because their parents don'e have health plans and the almighty insurance companies won't write anyone under 20 - thanks to the legislation this blog discusses. There are a lot of myths about who can and cannot get a health plan and even when one is quoted a plan, nothing says you can afford it! The system is broken. The industry needs reform. But a socialistic agenda is not the answer; everyone who is supporting this legislation needs to examine it further. Not only was it made law in a manner that our forefathers might consider distasteful, it contains too many issues that will cost the average taxpayer and small business owner. It is ridiculous that an employer is forced to cover an employee's 25 year old married child - yes , that is what this bill mandates. And despite the fact that the child has access to group insurance elsewhere, the employer is forced to cover them anyway. And can you guess how many small businesses will opt to pay the fine for not providing insurance becasue it is, after all, less of a financial burden that carrying a plan? One last thought, please make sure your staff is informed. There is, apparently, an alternate universe out there that some folks are unaware of. There ARE people out there without insurance who cannot get it - honest, hard-working citizens who are just as "good" as anyone else. Going to the ER is not the answer. Self pay patients who pay their bills for care are not always treated very well in MD offices.

Dear Jack: You are absolutely correct to vote for repeal of ObamaCare. I wager that 99% of ObamaCare supporters have never read the Act. With all of Obama's palaver about helping/protecting the middle class, ObamaCare and all of Obama's policies hammer the middle class with the majority of the tax burden. The way this law is written is unaffordable and is ruinous to our economy. From where do liberal voters think the money will come? They think there is some infinite pot of gold out there in "Rich Land" which will pay for everything. Wrong answer! That's a fantacy. It is the middle class who pay. After 60 years of hard work and savings, am I supposed to give up my modest home so everyone may have health care for which they never earned or worked a lick? Remember Aesop's Fable about the "Ant and the Grasshopper". The vast majority of the poor in America are poor, because they made the choices that make them poor. They didn't study in school; they quit school; they got addicted to drugs and alcohol; they got pregnant too young and out of wedlock; they committed crimes; they refused to work even when they had the opportunity to do so. Why should I pay for their profligacy? Clearly, we have to do something. Incredibly, we have allowed 49.5% of Americans to live without paying any taxes! Moreover, those people think that's OK! Nevertheless, we do have helpless deserving poor, sick, disabled and children for whom we must provide assistance. Conservatives and Republicans want to help the deserving. Congressman Kingston has proposed logical and fiscally responsible means to achieve that end. Republicans, across the board, have endorsed the same or similar plans to expand health care coverage for the needy and working poor. Republicans want to do this, but they do notand will not support Obama's radical approach, because it will bankrupt this nation and ruin the middle class. For those of you, who never studied history, political science or economics, the middle class is not only the bullwark of democracy, it is the life's blood of democracy. Without a middle class, there can be no democracy! The Democrat Party has been controlled or driven by extreme leftists for at least 40 years. These Socialists desire a classless society or a Marxist Society. In spite of his rhetoric and propaganda, Obama's programs are designed to destroy the middle class and to destroy our economy, so the extreme left can replace our government and economy with a Socialist State. Of course all of this is way over the heads of most Obama supporters, because they didn't stay in school or pay attention long enough in school to understand the political and socio-economics of what I've said. Bottom line, most of the left is too dumb to know better or to know which side of their bread is buttered. Jack, ya' done good, Bubba! Respectfully, Mike & Robyn Steele Midway, Georgia

So Jack tell me what is wrong with everybody having healthcare? Wouldn't the hospitals be better off with an insurance covering indegent people who walk into emergency rooms and get treatment? We the insured, are paying for it right now with higher rates charged by the hospitals for this indegent care. How can you tell millions that they don't deserve to be covered by insurance when we the people pay for your most excellent health insurance. Sure, somethings about the law need to be tweaked, but you and your colleagues need to get busy and do something for the people who sent you there.

Thank you for working to repeal the socialistic healthcare bill. Is that what these people really want? Socialism? Do we want to be like all the other socialistic countries around the world? You know that socialized medicine is a shoe in for a MORE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT! Wake up people! Yes, we need health care reform, and yes it needs to be more affordable. I am middle class America, and I do purchase individual health insurance, so I know the expense! I still would rather have the existing system, than the dems tyranic take-over type death-care. You talk about money--that would be the bottom line. If the government has problems now managing our tax dollars--you think it will magically get better if they were to take over our healthcare??? Get real!

What a total waste of time!32 votes on a law found ok by the supreme court and you jokers spend your time on this? Get to work on the real problems of this nation like tax reform and outrageous money pouring into this election cycle.I am so digusted with the lies and half truths about thehealth care bill I could vomit.Why have you not voted to pass the the bills to make millions of infrastructure jobs?Why do you keep voting on abortion when it is already banned from spending fed money for it?The entire congress should be sent packing and replaced with people who will work for the best interest of this country ,not any political party.

I believe you need to stop attempting repeal and begin the proper plans to implement the plan. This was originally a Republican plan that was touted and implemented by Republicans (ie RomneyCare) and didn't become an "evil doing" until the Democrats got on board. Stop the pointless bickering and actually DO something to help the people who need it most. Two of my friends, who were not previously able to obtain healthcare coverage even though they were willing to pay for it, are now covered and able to seek chemotherapy for much needed treatment. That's because of the passing of the Healthcare Act. So many have said that the Democrats and administration are telling lies about the bill and what it does - well, so are the Republicans. Why don't we put politics aside for a moment and do something for the greater good instead of acting like 2-year-olds who can't be happy unless we get our individual ways?

Obama has been a disasterous POTUS since day one. He has lied every step of the way and actually dishonors what I believe America stands for by his being in the office he holds. Some see him as the "Anti-Christ." But give this Devil his due, as he has passed his Obamacouldcareless plan which will be a national disaster. What happened to "...all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC?" You think it over from there. The Supremem Courts seems less worthy and wise these days in my view. Hardly worth holding in Honor, except for Justice Roberts and three others. The best thing for America to do to get back on track is to vote Obama out of office in the coming months. That will be the demise of the idiotic health plan he proffers to a nation of idiots that listen to his words instead of watching his actions. Down with ObamaCare is the bottom line.

Your enumeration of 20-odd taxes included in the ACA make an excellent resource for pointing them out AS TAX INCREASES. See my FB posts over past week "Bob Proctor"

We need to stop 90% of what Obama has done not just heath care. Maybe heath care first.

You voted wrong! I do not want the health care bill repealed! I want the health care bill put into law now! I want health care now! Georgia, doesn't care if we live or die! Jack their are 5 vote's in my house and so far you are not voting for what we want! At this point we will not be voting for you! Joanna

Amen! There is no tweaking this thing, it has got to go in its entirety. In addition, the Republican version that appeared in the 2008 RNC Platform has got to go as well. It is actually worse than Obamacare. Don't take the media bait that the Republicans must have a version. No, we do not, because we will only give the liberals attack material because they do not debate, they ridicule and attack. Let the dust settle after repeal and see what the private sector can do before we go in half-baked and make another trillion dollar mistake. While repeal is happening, our new President Romney can and should cancel all the waivers given by the Executive Branch. Another lie -- it is for everyone. It is not; it's for everyone who can't get a waiver. It is either for all or for none. Let's make it for none!

I agree with your reasons to repeal the HC law. I also feel it is important to find ways for everyone to obtain affordable health care. More individuals would favor the move if the expensive coverage can be provided for pre existing conditions.

There are so many falsehoods being bandied about by Jack and his cohorts I cannot begin to count them. Obamacare is certainly not perfect so work to fix it, work to make it better. Most of its imperfections are the result of the Republican efforts to protect corporate healthcare--the status quo. Jack--before you waste any more time and tax dollars voting to repeal Obamacare why don't you start with repealing the top notch insurance plans offered to all members of Congress? While you're at it, why don't you guys repeal the legislation that gives every one of you a life time pension regardless of how long or how well you served?

Stop using SSI as a slush fund, it is not an entitlement, it is EARNED. Any "mandated " healthcare program should be the same for ALL. Why did the proponents first and foremost EXEMPT themselves. Socialism, socialized medicine, etc. have failed in every country. If only GREED and POWER could be taken out of the equation, then equitable solutions such as your proposal WILL WORK.

I agree with overturning Obamacare; however, you need to associate the projected costs with each of the proposals you offer.

Your efforts to present the ideas listed are admirable, however; I don't see a concrete plan, I only see a group of good, but weak, related ideas. The republicans need to have a better defined "plan" listing more exacting program points which can be executed as a repeal and "replace" law. This plan must include "no pre-existing conditions clause". If you have never had a child with: type 1 diabetes, cancer, colitis, asthma, etc..... you will see no need for this pre-existing condition clause. If you have a child with such then you will see the absolute need for this abolition of pre-existing condition clause.

I am a nurse and I work in a hospital. I have patients tell me every day they don't have health insurance and aren't going to pay the bill from the hospital when it comes in the mail. When I see these patients in the ER for a sore throat, I ask them if they have a family doctor, they say no. When I ask them why, they say because they have to pay them before they are seen, but don't have to pay anything to be seen in the ER. This is the reason the cost of healthcare is so high. If you repeal Obamacare, you then eliminate the requirement that everyone buy insurance or be taxed. How do you propose to put more people into the system if they already don't want to pay for it? You could make the cost of insurance $10/month, and they still wouldn't buy it, because they have to pay for it. There is a very large part of our population who believe the government should give them everything for free. It is these people who were the target of the "mandate". Let's also not forget that it was conservative republicans who came up with the concept of the individual mandate. But it seems that now that liberals have agreed, it's all of a sudden an attack on our liberty. Please explain that as well.

I like Obamacare, it has the same individual mandate as Romneycare which has worked in his state. Unfortunately Obama is being faught every step of the way. george w. bush put us in economic distress and made us unliked and a laughing stock in the world but a democratic congress still supported him. Why can't we do whats best for the people and not whats best for the party? Isn't that what democracy is? Its a shame that Canada, France, and even Cuba have better healthcare and better pharmacutical prices!! Insted of looking out for the health care companies, Rx companies, and doctors wallets, lets pass a plan that works for everyone!! Now your followers are mostly republican so you DON'T get a fair and biased opinion of what the majority of Georgians want and you dont listen, like alot of politicians you follow the party and forget the people. Please stop spending our tax dollars on repealing Obamacare over 30 times and work on a JOBS BILL and other things to help this country rebound even more than it has from 2000 to 2008. Its sad that even though george w. bush made many bad, selfish, and profitable for him and his friends decisions including the lives lost in the war he falsely started, there were not even 10 repeated votes to repeal any of his decisions/bills/laws. boenher is misleading yall because of his personal hatred for Obama, not whats best for the majority of americans. Oh and TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS DOESNT WORK, TELL JOE THE PLUMBER THERE IS A CLOG IN THE LINE IN THE UPWARD 1%.

Why did you waste time on a bill you knew had np chance to becomel law. If your bill is so great why didn't the house pass it immediately. Your party doesn't like the affordable care law, but offers no comprehensive alternative. If you do, pass it Now.

Every incumbent on the ballot must have posted by their name how many years they have been in the office they seek reeletion for. Some campfire wood just gives off smoke, while other types can make some heat. Each county in this great land has a health department in a building that is maintained with our tax money. Doctors for medical directors, staffed by nurses Registed and Licensed, clerical staff, builds maintained in good repair and sanitary condition, connected to current information systems by telephone and internet, all with emergency evacuation plans, supply vendors, procedure manuals etc... sounds like a healthcare clinic to me. Lets use it for more services. I can get a flu shot without getting out of my car in the parking lot. Stop sending money to people that hate us. We are borrowing that same money from people that hate us. Zero budget all forgein aid. I want to see some great Americans in the Congress that will stop blowing smoke.

Hang in there. These pro Obamacare statements are from folks who are misguided or have are so enamored by Obama they are addicted to the "tingle up there legs" as Chris Matthews so "eloquently" expressed on TV that they cannot hear the truth. Obama care is a temporary ploy that cannot be fully emplemented because of cost. and is being used to help them get us dependent on the overnment.

Hello Jack, I do not think it is fair to make a comparison of the president's proposed healthcare legislation to the bill that was actually passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. As you well know the version of the bill that came out of the House of Representatives (that I really liked) included the public option and a tax increase on people making over $1 million dollars a year. We ultimately had to settle for the version that came out of the Senate because of the republican filibuster and we lost the public option and what I believe was the true means to lower the cost of health insurance. I do not think you are being completely forthcoming on your talking points: FIRST: The Congressional Budget Office found that health insurance reform will reduce the deficit by $210 billion in this decade and by more than $1 trillion over the following 10 years. And a family of four would save as much as $2,300 on their premiums in 2014 compared to what they would have paid without reform. SECOND:Independent analyses conducted by the RAND Corporation, Urban Institute, the Congressional Budget Office and Mercer, have found that employers will continue to offer health coverage to their workers. Economists agree that employers offer health insurance to help attract and retain the most talented employees and employers will continue to seek out top talent. Further, when health reform was enacted in Massachusetts more than five years ago, the percent of businesses offering insurance in Massachusetts increased. FIFTH: The expansion of Medicaid and the provision of subsidies in the exchanges will give workers options for retaining insurance coverage even if they were to work part-time or stop working. By providing new opportunities to obtain health care outside of employment, the ACA could lead some workers to reduce their work hours or leave their job to pursue other interests. The relatively small reduction in labor supply does not represent jobs lost as a result of ACA, but decisions made by those no longer locked into employment situations as a consequence of their need for health insurance. I apologize that I do not have time to research the other claims but I would like to leave you with the knowledge that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a god send for our family, small business and our son with asthma. We all deserve affordable health care. I think you are standing on the wrong side of history on this one. Best Regards Bob

I currently have health insurance premiums that I can no longer afford, extremely high Copays and 20% of the cost to treat me. Most of our earned income goes into paying healthcare bills. We do not have a hospital in our city nor county to treat the sick and the surrunding rural hospitals that we attend is having trouble keeping its doors open. We ask the hospital why the high cost and they reply it is due to uninsured patients that's treated, so the cost is shared by us (the insured) in order to keep the hospital doors open. I think that's unfair that the insured has to pay for the uninsured, so if President Obama has a plan that will insure everyone I suggest you vote with the President and not with the health care industry. Most of the people in your district is either underinsured or have no insurance at all and that is what's making healthcare out of reach for all of us. STOP VOTING AGAINST WORKING CLASS PEOPLE. YOU COULD HAVE TAKEN THAT 38 MILLION DOLLARS TO FIGHT THE HEALTH CARE BILL AND MADE BETTER USE WITH IT SUCH AS HELPING OUR RURAL HOSPITALS TO KEEP THEIR DOORS OPEN AND TO BETTER SERVE THEIR COMMUNITIES. VOTE FOR THE HEALTHCARE BILL THE PRESIDENT PUT FORTH OR PUT IN PLACE AN INSURANCE LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY SO EVERYONE HAS TO PAY FOR HIS OWN HEALTHCARE

Thank you so much for voting to repeal Obamacare...There are a lot of people that do not understand the damage that it would bring to us. Even the Doctors' do not want it..Alot of them are going to walk away from their practice if this monstrosity passes...It will hurt patient/Doctor relationships...There is so much concerning this Obamacare that people really don't understand at all...I want to say'If the Doctors' don't want it, people should catch on and know how it will affect the Country...Again thank you for voting against it...Everyone I have talked to, which have been many,many, people states they want it repealed I have talked to people from North Ga. to the Florida line and they want it repealed..Thank you again for helping Ga. Residents..

I'm more afraid, that our do nothing gov. will continue to do nothing! It's been a long time since we have had a gov. that has done anything but try to be the ones in POWER. I would like to say about our gov. that there is something that is made in the USA, LIE'S, and MISIMFORMATION about this or that the USA is best in the world at this. Let's stop the fighting and start bring our USA back to a place we all can be proud of. Of course this will take replacing What We have now with the real God of the Un. and brotherly love and concern for other neighbor, no matter their color. I am praying for you and the others in our gov. and our country, thanks for what you do. MR Perry Taylor

Health care by government is such a wrong direction for this country- I encourage everyone to read... -After America , There is No Place to Go" By: Kitty Werthmann What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books. I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily. The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted. We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler. We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed. After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service. Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage. Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children: Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.

Your thrust is in the right direction - All of the "free" health care costs are buried in a multitude of taxes on businesses. They in turn will merely pass them on to the consumer who always pays in the end. A previous commenter thought that it would be wise to break up the ObamaCare; keep the provisions that are important to most people and repeal piecemeal those that are an abomination. But the GOP MUST have a plan to offer and have it ready for discussion and debate before the election. Most of what we have heard thus far are "tweaks" and merely complicate the issue with unintended consequences. I have nephew working in Singapore - from what he tells me and what I have read, I have concluded it would be a good start to investigate their approach.

I see first hand what Obamacare is now starting to do in the trenches (provider offices and hospitals). You should be afraid. Deductibles have already begun to increase (double and tripled). Therefore people are now having to pay out of pocket for tests up front which now they can not afford. How does that help. Insurance companies now require the providers to do this test and that test before getting to the actual test that you would have ordered in the first place WASTEFUL. Insurance will very seldom pay for brand products due to the so called cost. The generics, some of them cost just as much and do not work as well as the brand; therefore you are back as square one trying to get blood pressure controlled or the blood sugar or having to add additional medications; therefore increased number of copays. More providers aren't taking Medicaid and we can get our patients to specialist they need because of that. Would you like to have a condition no one will see you for. I see this every day and it getting worse. Drug companies are cutting back on sample so we can't help those that dont have the funds for their deductible to stay on things like asthma medications. Competition breads a better product and cost control. We are in a horrible place already.