It’s an unaffordable care act

Corona, Calif.: Trump’s overhaul of Obamacare would be music to my ears. It’s hysterical that as soon as Trump opens his mouth, the Daily News is already judging and say he’s incorrect. My family is one of the many whose health care premium is half of the mortgage. Yes, that’s right — half: $750 per month. And not to mention the deductible and out-of-pocket costs that total well over $16,000. So when I go to the doctor, I don’t just pay a co-pay.

My husband makes $60,000 per year. Obama put in a family glitch into the system. The affordable part is that my husband is covered under the lowest plan (which covers hardly anything); the family isn’t factored into that (thus, a family glitch). The funny thing is, I can’t apply for a subsidy because my husband’s company offers a very basic plan in which you pay full price for prescriptions and 60% of your office visit. Does that sound affordable to you?

I don’t get to go to the doctor, because we are tapped out after all that. It costs $40 to go to the doctor — and then you get a surprise bill because the insurance didn’t cover all of it.

So, yes, it needs to be overhauled. If I am going to pay that amount, everything should be covered.

Last year, I paid $9,000 in premiums alone and the insurance paid a whopping $1,500 toward bills. So please pull your heads out of your behinds. The Affordable Care Act is not affordable. And that comes from an actual person, not the President. Just give the guy a chance and report all the news accurately.

Everyone knew

Victoria, Australia: Who knew (“Trump explains delay in Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody knew health care could be so complicated’,” Feb. 27)? Australia knew. We’ve got Medicare and it’s great, but it didn’t happen overnight. I think President Trump is a bit delusional. Can I say? Oh, well, I just did.

Rhonda Chestnut

High Sessions

Bronx: At least it’s now settled. No more disputes between liberals and conservatives on the topic of marijuana. The GOP now has finally admitted they think government should control what we eat and drink and smoke, just like three-time Republican mayor Mike “The Nanny” Bloomberg. We Democrats tried to stop him all three times. The GOP also finally admitted they don’t believe in state’s rights. Jeff Sessions, our new attorney general, said it loud and proud the other day. He doesn’t care if voters or state politicians legalized medical marijuana or recreational pot. He will stop democracy! The feds’ iron fist trumps states’ rights, in violation of the Constitution, says America’s top cop. Yikes indeed. Never forget this. Big government is what the GOP believes in. Liberals were vindicated. The GOP lied to everyone.

Joe Crow-Bryan

OG AG

Brooklyn: Okay, we all knew Jeff Sessions was a nutjob from his Earth-is-flat claims that marijuana is dangerous, unlike booze, tobacco, codeine, oxycontin, fried foods, etc. But his argument that Prohibition Part 1 did not create the American Mafia or any crime increases is rejected by every other Earthling but him. Likewise, the entire Earth knows that every teen gangsta in America did not buy their guns by saving up their paper route money or part-time job earnings. Prohibition Part 2 is literally what turned them to crime. They sold drugs, which made them filthy rich, quick, thanks to Sessions and Co. With all that cash, they bought guns for collecting, and protecting their mountains of cash, and to threaten their competition. Anyone who opposes legalized pot should be jailed for conspiring to help criminal drug dealers stay in business. Sessions is very lucky that his only enemy is the utterly moronic Democrat Party, which, if Trump didn’t pay them to take a dive, got ripped off.

Mildred Manham

Run, Oprah, run

Monroe Township, N.J.: I hope that Oprah Winfrey does run for the presidency in 2020. She will get my vote only if her first executive order is to mandate every citizen enroll in Weight Watchers. I will then become a billionaire. Nathan Goldstein

Why protest

Ossining, N.Y.: Voicer Linda Ranallo seems to conflate the need to vet people immigrating to this country with the protests against the haphazard implementation of this President’s travel ban. The protests were not against screening people. They were because the countries Trump chose have no connection to terror acts here other than being predominately Muslim and do not have any Trump businesses. People were hauled off planes, visa holders were blocked, innocent people victimized. As for vetting, refugees already go through “extreme vetting” involving the State Department, the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Their biometrics are recorded, they are interviewed repeatedly, and backgrounds are checked during a process that can take two years. So Trump isn’t “doing his job” — he’s just making up catchy phrases and alternative facts. Robert Rundbaken

Agents of influence

Staten Island: In response to Rep. Eliot Engel’s refusal to reach out to shake the hand of President Trump in the House chamber: He stated it was because the election was marred by the intervention of a hostile foreign power. The election process across the United States occurred flawlessly. There were no mechanical problems as well as no recounts. What is he referring to?

Lawrence A. Natale

Poor caliber law

Monroe Township, N.J.: Why would our new President sign a bill allowing mentally ill people to be able to buy guns? Guns are lethal weapons and putting them in the hands of unstable people is truly insane. At 83 years of age, I am so disappointed at what is happening to this glorious life we have been blessed to be part of. This new bill can backfire on the organization or person that has allowed this to take place.

Charlotte Dinowitz

Vouch not

Silver Spring, Md.: Martin Carnoy’s Op-Ed was spot-on (“Trump’s school voucher con job,” March 1). By 2 to 1, voters have rejected vouchers and all similar gimmicks for diverting public funds to private schools in 28 state referendum elections from coast to coast between 1966 and 2014. By the way, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of New York State’s 72% to 28% popular vote to retain the state Constitution’s ban on tax aid to religious private schools. Edd Doerr

Save the carriage jobs

Killingly, Conn.: Thank you so much for exposing the vile treatment of the carriage horse folks by these vegan animal rights fanatics. I have witnessed them in action, and the video shown on your web-site is not truly representative of what they do. Name-calling, cursing, and provoking people is their M.O. — one of them assaulted a driver when his back was turned. This needs to stop.

Tracy Donovan

Giving up compassion

Corona: On Ash Wednesday, I was watching as the evening news Brennan Linsley/AP showed people going to churches to get ashes. Then the story said that Timothy Cardinal Dolan gave ashes to inmates at a local prison. Well this is great! They have more rights than hardworking people or the elderly. My parents are 93 years old; both walk with a cane and we were not able to get ashes for them. I guess it’s too far for someone to go to in the community — but to travel to Fishkill for people who are behind bars is acceptable. So it must be true that if you are in prison, you have better rights than the rest of us. I feel this is a disgrace to the human race. If they are in prison, they should not be getting this special treatment. This just goes to show you: It don’t pay to be good. Benny DeStefano

Color over character

Island Park, L.I.: To Voicer Sonia Valentin, who responded to my letter: You said that “Good acting does not care about the color of one’s skin — just, can they deliver?” Why then, wasn’t this the case last year when there was such a hoopla by “people of color” (their words last year, not mine) when none received awards? I actually couldn’t care less who wins. They’re all a bunch of crybabies. I just don’t like seeing awards being given out for politically correct reasons and not for true excellence. When things don’t go your way, as happened last year, accept it and move on. Making an issue out of it casts a shadow over any later wins. Rose Johnson