Reactions to Senate Republicans’ plan to replace Affordable Care Act

The Better Care Reconciliation Act would end the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, which has given 423,500 Coloradans (11 million people nationally) access to affordable health care. It caps Medicaid, and states will be forced to ration care. Most importantly, it gives billions of dollars in tax cuts to wealthy individuals and insurance corporations, while leaving vulnerable people without the assistance they need. I strongly urge Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner to stand up for the people in our country and vote “no” on this unconscionable legislation. Devona Renee, Denver ●●●

Cory Gardner is doing the same thing Michael Bennet did with the Affordable Care Act. He is expressing his concerns about the bill in the making, but in the end he will do what Bennet did and follow the desired party line. That’s what politicians do. Mike Hester, Fort Collins

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Will the leaders of the Roman Catholic and other conservative Christian churches speak out loudly and forcefully against the Senate’s proposed health care legislation, which will strip health coverage from millions of people, cut or eliminate Medicaid services for many of the most vulnerable, and raise costs for most people?

We know that these leaders would be denouncing any legislation that provided insurance coverage for abortions. But are not the health and well-being of living persons as important as life developing in the womb? Do these leaders really believe in the value and sanctity of all human life? Thomas M. Rauch, Denver

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The GOP’s health care bill will take more than $800 billion from Medicaid at the expense of the elderly and disabled and turn those dollars into massive tax cuts for the wealthiest in our country.

The question should not be how many GOP senators will have the courage to vote against a bill that even Donald Trump calls “mean,” but instead how many will have the unmitigated gall to vote in favor of it. Ralph W. Cannon, Denver