To the editor: Regardless of all that may be stated in regards to the administration’s dismantling of our nation’s rules, President Trump is just not the one one guilty for the potential incoming harm to America’s healthcare business (“One Huge Lovely Invoice Act complicates state healthcare affordability efforts,” Dec. 15). The Republican Celebration has been gunning after it for years. And the one main enchancment that was made beneath the Obama administration, the Reasonably priced Care Act (which in itself has a lot room for enchancment), might quickly be a sufferer of hefty cuts that will render it subsequent to ineffective. As flawed as it might appear to some, the ACA nonetheless gives reasonably priced insurance coverage to those that wouldn’t in any other case have it.
What’s so hypocritical and unfair in regards to the Republicans’ need to slash well being applications that serve most People is the truth that Americans present many of the cash for the beneficiant well being advantages of Congress.
Congressional members obtain a complete advantages package deal that features entry to quite a lot of employer-sponsored medical insurance plans by means of the DC Well being Hyperlink change, with the federal government overlaying a majority of the premium prices. In addition they have entry to further federal well being and retirement advantages. In the event that they need to be truthful, they need to analyze and reduce their very own well being advantages in equal proportion to the general public’s.
That stated, the Republican Celebration is just not the one perpetrator chargeable for elevated well being prices. The hospital business, insurance coverage corporations and pharmaceutical corporations are additionally guilty.
Lynn Lorenz, Newport Seashore
