Coverage repeal is not in nation’s best interests

After reading the Friday Dispatch article “Future fuzzy for Senate health bill,” I felt a need to respond to the Friday letter “Business awaits health-care reform” from Aaron Dwyer.

Dwyer complained that businesses have awaited the repeal of Obamacare because of increasing costs.

The American Health Care Act has little to do with health care, and is more of a big tax cut and giveaway for America’s most wealthy.

What emerged from the Senate varies from the House version of the plan ever so slightly. It would return us to the days when health insurance was affordable only if one didn’t need it.

Small-business owners should look at President Donald Trump’s conflict of interests.

He is interested only in furthering his own interests, not small business. Democrats have asked congressional Republicans to sit down and discuss changes to Obamacare in order to make it more affordable to all, only to be mocked by those of the repeal party.

The only bipartisan effort Republicans will make is at a sporting event, and even then it is playing as opposing teams. By the way, since Republicans lost that game to the Democrats, I surprised they haven’t sought a repeal of that.

I’m not a Republican or a Democrat. My parents were loyal to the GOP but only as long as what came out of it was in the best interests of the country as a whole. While Obamacare is not perfect, I’m sure they would say stripping millions of their health care is not in the nation’s best interests.

The American Medical Association opposes the American Health Care Act because of the threat it poses, but the GOP apparently does not care or members would sit down with Democrats along with experts from the American Medical Association to fix Obamacare instead of simply trying to repeal it.

David Berry Columbus