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Compete with ACA

Thu., Feb. 2, 2017

Congress is bent upon repealing the Affordable Care Act, and now with President Trump, it may be all the more a possibility. I suggest a different tack.

We are capitalists and love competition to fix everything. As Congress devises a new plan, which is supposed to be less expensive, insures many more (President Trump says 100 percent), insures persons with pre-existing condition and all this with no cap on insurance payments, put that plan in place and let people choose.

As soon as such a plan is put out, people will leave ACA in droves and ACA will be out of contention.

Mallur Nandagopal

Spokane

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