Vestal reveals bogus claims

Eastern Washington residents owe a debt of gratitude to Shawn Vestal for his May 4 column illustrating Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ bogus claims that she is sincerely trying to preserve health care for people with pre-existing conditions. Ensuring “those with preexisting conditions have access to health care” isn’t really the same as actually having health care, a distinction Republicans are counting on people being too dim to grasp.

Vestal was correct in stating it’s too soon to say how all this will play out when the House bill actually makes its way to the Senate, but one essential fact 5th Congressional District voters must remember in the months leading to McMorris Rodgers’ re-election bid in 2018: When you, a family member, a friend, a neighbor, or an acquaintance loses his or her health care or gets the coverage tossed into a high-risk insurance pool, it won’t be some amorphous “they” who voted to take it away.

It was Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Mike Burns

Spokane