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Bill designed for failure

Tue., July 18, 2017

Republicans in Congress who want to honor their promises to repeal and replace Obamacare should back Rep. John Conyers’ Medicare for All and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ single-payer bills. They would provide better health care for more Americans; they would save physicians a lifetime of paperwork; they would raise Americans’ health care to the level of other developed nations, and they would save money.

The ACA (Obamacare) is an unlovable kludge that Mitt Romney’s team devised in Massachusetts as much to keep insurers profitable as to provide health care. But it is designed to work, and it works. The bill that Sen. Mitch McConnell just yanked from the Senate is designed to fail. No insurer could offer affordable plans under its terms.

Barry H. Levine

Spokane

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