Letter to the Editor / New Healthcare Bill will cost Florida economy 83,000 jobs!
Dear Editor:
As a Florida Resident and Constituent, I wonder why our Republican Senator is willing to cost our Florida economy 83,000 jobs and $148B by 2026 according to new study from George Washington University. Their analysis estimates that 83,000 jobs will vanish from the Florida economy by 2026 if the AHCA passes. ACA repeal would also cost the state’s Gross State Economic Product by a staggering $8.6 billion in that same timeframe. “By 2026, 924,000 fewer people would have jobs” at the national level, the study warns. Gross state products would drop by $93 billion and business output would be $148 billion lower. These downward trends would continue after 2026, if legislators don’t wake up and change something.
Again, is the price of a HUGE tax break worth it to the state of Florida? Why are our elected representative so willing to “cut off their nose despite their face?”
The Miami Times suggest “The figures ought to be printed out and hand-delivered to Sen. Marco Rubio’s office every day until the Senate votes on whatever its secret version of the AHCA turns out to be. Rubio has already intimated he doesn’t care about the basic humanity of the bill: He previously said the 23 million people estimated to lose insurance are just a “small percentage” of the population.”
If you call him, please remind him that Health-care costs are the single biggest driver of personal bankruptcy, and as coverage grows more expensive, the poor and middle classes will be left with much less money to spend on vacations that drive our Florida tourism economy. Death and bankruptcy aren’t good for Florida or The Keys.
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