It has been awhile since President Obama gave his report to the nation. Rep. Ryan, R-Wis., of gave a GOP response that had nothing in it on how to cut spending. Our Rep. Bachmann was able to get some face time that allowed her to blame President Obama for the high national debt, high unemployment and a bankrupt healthcare system. The Patient Protection and Affordable Act makes it illegal for health insurance companies to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions and stops the practice known as "rescission," where insurers drop a policy holder when they require too much medical attention. Just as bad is a benefit cap. Parents will be allowed to keep their children on their policy till age 26, when they are job hunting or getting higher education. An insurer tried to drop a person because of an error, but it is fine for the company to have policy billing errors. Small businesses have been adding large numbers of employees to health coverage because of "Obama Care," as Rep. Bachmann likes to call it. Don’t forget her "death panels" that she tried to blame on the new program that would pay for hospice care. Yet that is the hospice unit that might end up in Buffalo. Rep. Bachmann and her supporters complain, not even knowing what hospice care is all about. She is so busy running for higher office instead of working for the Sixth District. We would be getting a new Stillwater bridge if she had done her job. She should not have wanted to repeal all the benefits of the new health plan.
