Don’t allow “Trumpcare.” For several years my mother was paying for long-term health insurance which seemed wise to both of us. As she went into her 80s, the premiums crept upwards until she couldn’t afford them. All that she had paid in became worthless when she dropped the insurance because of those high premiums.
Perhaps that sounds like wonderful business practices but it is cruel and unethical to people like her. As I listen to the Republicans promoting their solution to the current health care law, it sounds disturbingly like what my mother went through. I would rather pool all our resources to help keep us a healthy nation.
Few of us can do it individually using our own meager finances. With more of us helping, we can keep the costs down and urge health providers to be focused on their responsibilities to their patients and less on grandeur and high returns. Tweak the Affordable Care Act, but don’t toss it out.
