PLIGHT OF THE POOR

While Obamacare no doubt has its flaws, it is equally obvious that the Republicans have no real alternatives.

When Republican Ronald Reagan was president, I was in Hawaii and a woman there needed US$200,000 for an operation to save her life, but she couldn’t pay for it. Although the operation had a 70% chance of success, they just let that poor woman die.

Even now when the Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the Congress, they can’t pass a bill that would have saved that woman’s life.

The root cause of this healthcare mess is that the Republicans just don’t care about the lives and health of poor people, especially if they’re not white. Eric Bahrt