While it’s encouraging that our congresswoman opposed the Republicans’ farce of a health care bill — once it was dead — she still insists that the Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed. Yes, it’s far from perfect, but what the Republicans proposed was nothing but an empty shell, a gift to the rich.
Our congresswoman is more devoted to her party than to solving the problems her community, the country and the world are facing.
The elephant in the room is that one of health care’s biggest drains is the health insurance industry itself, where as much as a third of our premium dollars go for administration, executive salaries and shareholder profit. There’s no way to reduce health care costs without removing the profiteers from the equation.
The only way to improve on the ACA is a Medicare-style, single-payer system. But Republicans will never cross swords with an industry with such a fat checkbook.
