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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Letter: Work together to fix flaws of ACA

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If you have read all 1,024 pages of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), raise your hand? No matter our political loyalties, it’s time to listen to the voiceless who have been negatively impacted.

A common myth is those who want to fix Obamacare offer no solutions. What is impossible is to write a single paragraph solution to a 1,000-page patchwork law that spawned multiple lawsuits.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, spent time listening to the problems of Washington residents, but she has been criticized for supporting the legislation needed to solve problems caused by the ACA. The ACA was flawed because our president did not have the resolution (or experience) to go through the difficult normal legislative process including a diversity of opinions.

“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” became Politifact’s “Lie of the Year.” Patients became commodities and health care infrastructure crumbles. Some have benefited but, often, carrying an insurance card does not translate into health care. The ACA caused insurance costs to skyrocket for the middle class while creating access problems for low-income and Medicare patients.

It’s understandable that many are emotionally invested in the president’s signature law but does that mean we can’t fix the flaws in the ACA? Herrera Beutler has said we can fix health care without having to make it worse and more expensive for millions of American.

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