The Right Way Forward For GOP Health-Care Bill
What is wrong with our representatives? Are they incapable of working together (“Senate’s ‘Nobamacare,’ ” June 22)?
ObamaCare is a failure and has been since day one. After the dust cleared and the lies were revealed, what we had was a costly, lackluster health-care system that has not done the job. It has, however, fooled the American people into a false sense of healthcare security.
The Republicans are very capable of providing the American people with a good health-care plan. The question is whether they’ll put aside petty differences and do the job they were elected to or fail like the Democrats have.
Alan Cribb Tucker, Ga.
The Senate health-care bill is nothing the Republicans promised it would be. It fixes nothing they said was broken.
It regards health care as an off-the-shelf purchase, not a necessity for all. It doesn’t replace ObamaCare; it just removes the Care part. It does nothing to improve the lives of most Americans. An “I have mine, go
get your own” attitude permeates our country.
No Republican will give an educated explanation of their thought process in justifying this bill. All we hear are boorish party slogans. If facts really mattered, we would not be at the precipice, but here we are. Down the rabbit hole we go.
Bob Bascelli Seaford
The rhetoric on both sides of the aisle regarding the health-care debate is depressing and disappointing.
All politicians should live under the same health-care mandate that they give us.
We could truly be rid of the hypocrisy and most Americans would feel secure in knowing that their congressmen are doing their best if they could work together and put this mandate in place.
Charlie Smith Miami Beach, Fla.
When ObamaCare was being put together, thenHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House needed to pass the bill “to find out what’s in it.”
Now seven years later, Sen. Chuck Schumer came out just 15 minutes after the Senate healthcare bill was released and said that it was “every bit as bad” as the House bill, when he had apparently only read the draft.
So once again, a leading Democrat came out and made a blanket statement about a bill that he hadn’t read. My message to Democrats is learn to read the bill first, then make a statement.
John Scott Drive Dumont, NJ