Here’s an idea to solve one of Arizona’s health-care dilemmas

Because we want to be good people, Children are used to get to our wallets.

So called caring people just keep repeating on TV that one-in-five kids in America will not have food. This is such a con. These people play on your caring heart to make their bank account grow.

Hamburgers cost a dollar. All these parents have to do is give up one pack of cigarettes to feed the entire family.

Mothers on the radio are praising a local food bank because the food bank provides all the food she needs.

Come on, when did we tell mothers that it is the community’s responsibility to feed, clothe, house and provide health care for their children.

It is no one’s job to raise those kids. If you cant feed and provide for a child, don’t have one.

It is so bad for kids to learn that they can live off others.

I am not sure why we as a community don’t advertise:

“Parents raise your own kids instead We want to hear from you. Comment on letters, columns and editorials online or via e-mail. » » of giving the food bank praise for feeding this lady’s kids.”

— Don Burchfield, Phoenix Hey, Gov. Ducey, listen up. Consider this an offer (er, suggestion) you can’t refuse.

Arizona has just one remaining insurer for the Affordable Care Act. The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) holds the solution to this problem.

AHCCCS works and works well, providing health-care services to 1.8 million Arizonans annually. There are nearly 200,000 Arizonans on the ACA. Why not roll the 200,000 into the 1.8 million?

This solution is simple and elegant. Roll the ACA into AHCCCS and create an income-based premium structure for those soon-to-be former ACA recipients.

Make the structure affordable for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs — you know — the ones who are still paying exorbitant premiums. In the stroke of a pen, you’ve solved a huge, seemingly intractable problem.

You’ve expanded an already large risk pool (making insurers happy), reduced premiums for small businesses and entrepreneurs (making them happy), ensured continued coverage as well as access in rural Arizona (showing your concern for those outside metro areas) and expanded the choice of plans and providers to those currently on the ACA. What’s not to like? Come on, Governor. Just do it!

— Victoria Kauzlarich, Scottsdale