Work on fixes to health care, not a full repeal: Your Say
Readers react to the American Health Care Act failure.
Letter to the editor:
The solution to health care is simple, and the simplest solution is most often the best. Lots of people don’t want bigger, more expensive government, but health care is unique and needs government participation and controls. Ask the leaders of every other developed country in the world.
We already have a system in place with a complex method of review and adjustment. Medicare and Medicaid already pay for a large portion of medical bills in the U.S. I’m no actuary, but if all the funds spent on insurance premiums and outrageous deductibles were diverted to supporting a single Medicare-like system, pharmaceuticals prices were negotiated and insurance companies were paid management fees and not taking excessive profits for risk taking, I suspect this might be doable.
The winners are the American people. Drug and insurance companies will have to adjust.
Harris Cherin; Melbourne, Fla.
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Facebook comments are edited for clarity and grammar:
House Speaker Paul Ryan had seven years to craft a coherent policy alternative to Obamacare. He came up with nothing. Ryan is to blame for the product that not enough people in the House would vote for. Stop making excuses for him.
— Scott Cotterell
Ryan is out of touch with the American people. This was a very bad bill, and a more conservative bill would have been even worse.
— Jim Charbonneau
Republicans promised to repeal Obamacare. Just do it. We don’t want a replacement.
— Chet Field
I think before Obamacare goes down the drain, both parties should get together and stop going back-and-forth with the chest thumping. Somewhere along the line ,Washington stopped working for the people.
— Doug Steltenpohl
Just think how well Obamacare would work without sabotage.
— Tom Hensley