Universal health care best choice

U.S. House Republican leaders recently released their initial plan for replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare. I have many concerns. Here are two:

› The plan includes no estimate of how many Americans would gain or lose insurance and doesn’t include comparisons with the ACA, which extended coverage to 20 million people.

› House Republicans stated they would continue providing protection for people with pre-existing conditions, but their plan doesn’t say how.

The ACA was at least a beginning. A health care plan that depends on the for-profit sector to determine costs isn’t working. Medicare for all is the best way forward and, eventually, universal health care operated by the nonprofit public sector is the wisest choice

The government takes and redistributes money for roads, schools, police and fire departments, the military and the government. Universal health care is an investment that will reap substantial benefits for our country.

We need our elected officials to work in a bipartisan manner and come up with a real plan that will benefit real people. Health care isn’t partisan; every American needs it.

Therese Pace Tuley