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A Letter From Annette
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It is 2014 and we are well into some of the tax changes for the new healthcare law, often misrepresented as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but also dubbed Obamacare. One candidate in Congressional District 1, Dina Titus, hasn�t had a clue what Obamacare costs or the toll it would have on Nevadans, young people and Latinos who are 44% of Congressional District 1. She voted blindly for it and worse yet still touts its supposed cost savings while Nevadans like Linda Rolain die and have difficulty getting care. The uninsured population has not improved (though the number of uninsured has only declined marginally, with most on Medicaid). Now the chickens are coming home to roost on the incompetent healthcare utopia of Dina Titus.
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In contrast, Dr. Annette Teijeiro has been concerned about multiple issues with Obamacare and as a physician who cares about her patients started writing about the flaws in 2009. Some of her concerns were with rationed care for our elderly, our military veterans, and the invasion of our private healthcare decision process. Another huge consequence of this law is the growth of government bureaucracy that controls our most intimate information but paid forby the American people. Dr. Teijeiro voiced her objections from the beginning while Dina Titus acted as if she were still in her high school cheerleader uniform singing sis-boom-bah.
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
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-- Thomas Jefferson
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Perversely, the way the Obamacare law is written, it is one of the largest tax increases ever on the middle class.
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Why?
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The facts are that the poor have had their healthcare for free since the establishment of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986. No hospital with an Emergency Room can turn down evaluating any person who shows up at their door. The hospital must evaluate, treat emergent medical problems, and never demand proof of insurance, legal residence, or financial information prior to providing needed treatment.
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Since these people are financially destitute, hospitals are unable to collect payment from them, but until the full implementation of the new healthcare law are able to collect from the federal government through Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments. And that which is still not covered is passed on to the private insurance patients through cost shifting. In other words, those of us who pay taxes and have private health insurance are the ones who pay the poor peoples� hospital bills, no matter what.
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Those who are the top 1% have always had the ability to pay for any healthcare treatment anywhere in the world that they want. They have the financial ability to do so and health insurance does not determine where, when or what treatment they receive. Unlike far leftwing ideologue Dina Titus, Dr. Teijeiro believes we should not envy these individuals for their financial success because these are also the large businesses that employ and provide healthcare insurance benefits, the philanthropists that donate money to charitable organizations and non-profit corporations to find cures or fund healthcare resources for the less fortunate.
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Nevertheless, it is clear most of the financial burden for the healthcare insurance mandate unfairly rests on the shoulders of the middle class. Through their income they obtain the benefit of healthcare insurance for their families, through their taxes they pay for the poor�s subsidized healthcare and by running small businesses they provide healthcare insurance benefits to their employees. They are also the backbone of our entrepreneurial free market economy.
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So what awaits these hard working middle class Americans during the 2014 tax year?
These charts tell the story.
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Tax credits, the funding of the 159 new agencies, the estimated 16,000 new IRS agents, and the expansion of Medicaid must all be funded with increased taxes because the federal and state governments do not produce their own income. Because government depends on its citizens for its entire source of income, we must ask a very important question. Can we afford to pay more to our government and less for our healthcare costs?
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Dina Titus thinks your pockets are infinitely deep and she seems to never tire of spending other
peoples� money (even though she is a multi millionaire).
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Dr. Annette Teijeiro has better answers.
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Dr. Annette Teijeiro, M.D. is an Anesthesiologist who has been a Patient Heathcare Advocate for over a
decade. She has been the Coordinator for the Nevada Chapter of American Association of Physicians &
Surgeons. She has written extensively on Obamacare and understands its many shortcomings. If you want
a competent representative in Congress who knows how to drain the Obamacare swamp, who would you
choose? A career politician and political science theorist like Dina Titus? Or Dr. Annette Teijeiro?
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The way you can help is by promoting the highly qualified conservative candidate, Dr. Annette Teijeiro,
to beat Titus this coming November 4 (early voting starts October 18). An easy way to start is by sending
a link to this page to friends. You can also help by following
@AnnetteTeijeiro on
Twitter and on
Facebook,
www.facebook.com/annetteteijeiro,
The other important thing that you can do is keep asking the Las Vegas Review Journal, KNPR, Channel 3,
Channel 8 or any other media that can orchestrate a debate for Congressional District 1 between
Dina Titus and Dr. Annette Teijeiro.
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Dr. Annette also needs your help running TV commercials to counter the fluff information being regurgitated
by local media. If Dina Titus proposes world peace and free ice cream, she gets press coverage.
Dr. Annette in contrast is running on real issues like Obamacare, the Energy rape of Nevada,
Veterans affairs, returning control of Federal land to Nevada, and many issues that affect
your pocket book. Dina Titus will never address these issues, she is too busy flitting between fundraisers.
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Please donate $10, $25, $50 or $100 at
www.annetteforcongress.com
And don�t forget to vote for Dr. Annette Teijeiro when early voting starts October 18 through October 31st, or on Nov. 4th.
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