Don't Let GOP Cries About "Obamacare" Fool You. They're Really Against The Law's Real Benefits

One thing that really angers me is how Republicans so quickly dismiss the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.
To hear Republicans tell the story, the act they call "Obamacare" is nothing but an evil scheme that dictates to Americans their health care choices and takes powers away from the states.
The problem is that you never hear Republicans say what the act really does.
You never hear Republicans tell about how the act prevents insurance companies from denying health care coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.
You never hear Republicans tell how the act allows families to keep college-age siblings covered under their policies until the siblings reach age 26.
You never hear Republicans tell how the act closes what's called the "donut hole" in prescription drug coverage that causes seniors to pay ever higher costs for their medications.
If you forced Republicans to respond to what the Affordable Care Act really is, they'd go into a psychiatric tizzy and would wind up losing the argument. That's why you hear all this demagoguery from them about the evils of "Obamacare."
These Republicans don't want folks also to know that the ACA is patterned after the Massachusetts legislation that was signed into law by that state's then-governor, Mitt Romney, who is trying to run away from what he did as a GOP presidential front runner.
There's too much good in the legislation that Republicans only want to yell "Obamacare" to the top of their lungs and spread all sorts of lies and disinformation about the law. They told these lies when the law was considered, and they're still telling those lies now that the legislation has become law.
Here's a sampling from a Republican candidate for my area's Texas House seat (district 115), Matt Rinaldi:

Fight ObamaCare and regain control of our health care system from Washington, D.C.
Federal healthcare mandates are threatening to overwhelm the Texas state budget, and taxpayers will be on the hook for the unintended consequences of ObamaCare. I support the current efforts of Attorney General Greg Abbott to challenge the Constitutionality of ObamaCare and will support legislation asserting the rights of the state under the Tenth Amendment to determine its own health care policy.

To Matt Rinaldi, it's evil for health insurance companies to be forced to cover folks with pre-existing conditions. It's also evil for health insurance companies to be forced to cover those they just don't want to cover. And furthermore, it's evil for the federal government to do its part to protect seniors from paying huge sums for their prescription drugs.

That's the Obamacare Rinaldi is fighting so hard against. It's not about government intrusion as Rinaldi and other Republicans claim. It's about keeping folks from getting health care, period, without having to pay a huge sum.

That's why Rinaldi and other Republicans will NEVER talk about what "Obamacare" really does. They are so bent on protecting the 1 percent that anything that benefits everyone else is dismissed by these Republicans as everything from budget busters on down.

My area and the rest of the country deserve far better from those who seek public office. If Rinaldi's campaign serves as any indication, the GOP will never do anything to really protect the 99 percent while pursuing policies that continue to allow the 1 percent to get even richer at our expense.

Rinaldi and the rest of the GOP is totally wrong. They are wrong for my area, they are wrong for Texas, and they are wrong for America.