Health Care in America: The Search for Answers
The only way to keep our health-care system from falling apart is to control the gouging from drug companies and insurance companies (“GOP emergency op in bid to save health bill,” March 23).
We must follow the model of other countries that use a single-payer health-care system so cost can be negotiated. Walter Carpenter Manhattan
I don’t know if House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan would work, but I know if nothing is done, ObamaCare will collapse, as planned. John Habersberger New Paltz
The idea that we should avoid a singlepayer health-care system because of some weird notion of “freedom” is putting a ridiculous ideology above actual reality. Jason Dumelie Manhattan
Has anyone considered the fallout of this ill-considered, cobbled-together “health plan” that will leave the burden for millions of people’s care on local municipalities who can ill afford it?
What does one think happens when people are without adequate coverage — they just go away? No, they go to emergency rooms, which are obligated to take them and we all foot the bill.
It’s not just a humanitarian issue, it’s common sense. Walter Wade Manhattan Why doesn’t Congress just expand the health- care plans its members get to all Americans?
Congressmen have a Cadillac plan with low premiums and deductibles that is paid for by the American people as their employer.
We would, of course, pay our own premiums and get the same coverage.
While they’re at it, they can also offer every American a chance to participate in their pension plan, which gives them $14,000 a month after five years of service.
The monthly income could be scaled from their $175,000 salary, so that someone working five years at $44,000 would get only $3,500 a month. Peter Provenzale Somerset, NJ
Repealing the Affordable Care Act will leave thousands of people without health care. We can’t let this happen. Anthony Pernice Staten Island