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Looking forward to July 9 health vote

I have said from the time I first began looking at the Obamacare plan that it is the largest piece of tax legislation to be passed during my lifetime. The Supreme Court verified that it is all about taxes. In my business we deal with insurance companies all day every day. We encounter many problems attempting to get paid for the mental health care services we provide. The rules change almost daily when dealing with insurance companies. There are many things that need improvement.

With that being said, I have been concerned from the first mention of Obamacare about how it will be paid for. When a business (in this case it is insurance companies) are told that they are required to expand the services they offer, no longer allowed to set limits on the number of times a client can access essential services, continue providing services for children for more years and deal with countless other provisions of the law that will cost the insurance company more money, well, they have to be able to pay for the huge increase in cost to their company — or they will go out of business.

They’ll pay for it by increasing the cost of the insurance premium and reducing the amount of money they pay to providers — and by many other means — or they go out of business. I am extremely disappointed in the ruling by the Supreme Court and look forward to John Boehner calling for a vote on July 9 to repeal the law.

David McFadden

Bartlett

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