Health care: Repeal efforts are especially cruel now
According to Fox Business News, unemployment caused by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a record surge of 5.4 million people losing their health insurance.
And yet the Trump Administration and 18 Republican governors and attorney generals have filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Such a repeal would result in an additional 23.3 million Americans losing coverage.
The Republican leadership in Congress has tried over 70 times (and failed) to kill the ACA (aka Obamacare). Neither the present administration nor Republicans in Congress have ever offered a plan to replace it.
One would think there would be a unifying nonpartisan agreement that comprehensive health care is more important now than ever.
Will voters in November make a choice for leadership that prioritizes making health care available for all Americans or an administration that seems primarily focused on destroying the accomplishments of the previous administration?
Ken Panitz, University Place
This story was originally published July 16, 2020 at 7:58 AM with the headline "Health care: Repeal efforts are especially cruel now."