Letter: Don’t buy GOP health plan

It appears President Trump, Speaker Ryan and Majority Leader McConnell are trying to “sell us a pig in a poke.” This old idiom pretty much sums up their attempt to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. After seven years vowing to repeal and later vowing to repeal and replace, they have a plan that they want us to buy without disclosing many of its features.

How much will it cost to implement? The Congressional Budget Office has not scored the costs. Obamacare was scored by the CBO prior to its adoption.

How will people now covered by Obamacare get another insurance policy? Trump says that he wants everyone covered. A peek into the “poke” reveals that “not all will be covered.”

If this is such a wonderful “pig in a poke” why do so many medical groups say the “pig” is critically flawed and has a negative impact for people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders.

It is important that the American people be able to examine this “pig” before it is foisted upon us. As Speaker Ryan said on TV, “We have been waiting for years to do this. It is essential we act now.” I say, “no” to the “pig in the poke.”