Health care and partisanship

Sun., Jan. 14, 2018

This is a response to the letter “GOP destroyed ACA” (Jan. 1, 2018):

Not really. The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. Steadily increasing premiums since inception, steadily increasing deductibles since inception, steadily decreasing insurers’ participation since inception, steadily increasing cost to taxpayers since inception.

Reality check: the ACA is imploding because it was poor legislation designed and passed by one party. Similar to the tax overhaul that just passed, again designed and passed by one party. Both are good ideas likely turned bad by hyperpartisanship.

This partisanship/division started to become more widespread during the Bush administration, continued and amplified during the Obama administrations and is becoming even worse under the Trump administration.

United we stand, divided we fail! Yes, fail!

Kent Harrison

Colbert

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