The cost of health care has become a gigantic problem. Understanding that overhead (doctors, nurses, food service, etc.) is very high, a hospital stay of any length of time can ruin a person or family financially. As teachers trying to raise two children in the ’70s on our salaries, it was difficult. We could not […]
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Questions about health care
Privilege is a special right, advantage or immunity granted to a person or group. If health care access is accepted as a privilege, then, by definition, there must be people who are excluded. To those who believe health care is a privilege, consider this scenario: John, a healthy employed 27-year-old has not been granted the […]
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Medicare for all
The House Republicans’ recent passage of a health care bill (“Trumpcare”) without waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to evaluate it was an egregious flaunting of the grave responsibilities Congressmen have to their constituents and to their country. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, was one of them. He should be ashamed. The GOP bill would take $880 […]
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Trump is not pro-life
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin told the Sun Journal, “I voted for repeal of Obamacare because it was failing” (May 5). The insurance companies’ refusal to pay for pre-existing illness is the reason. The Iowa medical insurance company withdrew. I voted for Bernie Sanders. Roman Catholics voted for Trump because he stated that he was pro-life […]
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Are you happy with Trumpcare?
Never mind the millions of people projected to lose insurance supports they had under Obamacare. Forget the Medicaid cuts of $880 billion through the next 10 years. Ignore the billions of dollars from Medicaid that would no longer go to school systems that provide services to developmentally-delayed special education students. There are some people who […]
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GOP unleashes chaos with its health care plan
Social desperation tends to land on the doorsteps of the governments closest to the people. Happily for states and cities, the Affordable Care Act turned their challenging populations of sick, low-income residents into customers for local health care businesses. Unhappily, President Trump and congressional Republicans are in full sabotage mode and threatening to bus these […]
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Same coverage for legislators
How do we go about getting a great health care bill? Insist on a ruling that all U.S. senators and members of the House of Representatives have to be covered under the exact same plan as they put in place for the entire country. That is how it should be — no special privileges for […]
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The insurance fiasco
Despite overwhelming opposition, President Barack Obama remains the only president to defy atrocities committed by insatiable insurance giants feeding off the public and destroying the health care system. He deserves credit rather than denigration from bureaucratic charlatans. Sadly, in retaliation for their thwarted eight-year agenda of making Obama a one-term president, Republican officials, at the […]
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Free markets don’t work
Why am I not surprised that my representative Bruce Poliquin voted with the Republican majority to do away with the ACA and replace it with a bill that ensures that all too many of my fellow citizens will lose their insurance? This is a return to the dark days of the “free market,” which did […]
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The fake freedom of Trumpcare
I wish Americans could experience the freedom of knowing that health care will always be there, regardless of income. How much less stressful would life be if people did not have to fear that one serious illness could destroy the life they have worked for. Republicans would have the public believe that not having health […]