2018 Election Issues

Medicaid expansion was an issue in State elections. Nobody wants to buy bad insurance, so they don’t or can’t afford it. The problem is the delay in offering cheap major medical.  Nobody wants to end up with a $200,000 hospital bill that will take their house. Medicaid should be stripped down to cover catastrophic rescue and repair only. The preventive and minor problem events are easily replaced by “doc in the box” clinics and can be paid out-of-pocket.

Most voters are concerned about unsustainable costs in healthcare and education and should have voters wondering how to lower these costs. Excessive government funding has actually created this cost spiral in healthcare and education, but nobody mentions that.

Excessive and unlawful immigration was a big jobs and household income issue for those voters who want to get middle class jobs, maintain US sovereignty, reduce federal welfare spending, reduce crime and lawlessness, reverse socialism and continue to restore the US economy. Immigrants have taken jobs from US citizens since 1989 when immigration doubled. We have 30 million illegals in the US, living, working and collecting welfare that costs $384 billion a year. We have an additional 1 million legal immigrants entering the US every year and they occupy half the jobs created each year. That’s why the US Labor Force Participation Rate has not advanced past 63%.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader