Letters to the editor August 3

Posted 8/2/17

To the GOP: how about saving people’s lives instead? Now that the GOP has failed to offer any replacement plan for the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA), after having seven years to work on it, …

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Letters to the editor August 3

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To the GOP: how about saving people’s lives instead?

Now that the GOP has failed to offer any replacement plan for the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA), after having seven years to work on it, we have to ask Pennsylvania’s U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey and U.S. Rep. Tom Marino the following questions:

Why are you so desperate to save the federal budget balance, save taxes for the super rich, but not save the lives of your constituents by offering them affordable healthcare? Instead of saving Medicaid “on a sustainable fiscal path” (Sen. Toomey’s words), save people’s lives instead.

All industrialized countries have universal healthcare. As the richest country, why can’t we?

The United State’s infant mortality rate is 6.1 per 1,000, ranking behind all 27 developed nations. Does this not bother you?

The U.S. spends $9,451 per capita on health care, more than any other country. Our life expectancy is 78.9 years, ranking #31 in the world. Does this make sense to you?

Instead of working with Democrats to come up with solutions to give everyone affordable healthcare, the GOP is sabotaging it. In trying to kill the ACA, the GOP is actually killing their constituents by denying them access to healthcare. The GOP is more concerned with the profits of insurance and drug companies than the lives of ordinary citizens. 

Reggie Cheong-Leen

Milford, PA

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