GOP’s Health-Care Hurdle: Sell America on Senate Bill
The Republicans should adopt a reasonable health-care plan quickly (“Govern or Lose,” Editorial, June 28).
Then, since they cannot think of everything, they can make necessary changes along the way as problems arise. This is what will be necessary because the issue is so complicated. History has proven this.
Many changes were made to ObamaCare after it passed. Over time, as the situation called for it, President Barack Obama made changes by executive order, and a few by the actual legislative process.
The GOP is being slowtortured to craft a complicated law now that will handle every situation, and it’s impossible. David Lipton Toms River, NJ
ObamaCare is imploding, and the Republicans in Congress are hitting a hurricane-strength blowback trying to replace it.
Democrats are on the obstructionist path, and some Republicans will not support anything less than total ObamaCare repeal.
Politics has become so toxic that too many of us only care about how we can help our side win. As ObamaCare implodes, resisting all reasonable attempts to fix it simply leaves millions of Americans stuck in this sinking ship of medical care. It also ensures a similar response by Republicans when Democrats inevitably reassume power. Steve Heitner Port Jefferson Station
Back in the early sixties, when I was a Washington correspondent for the Reader’s Digest, I worked on an article about a national health program. Wilbur Mills, the chairman of Ways and Means, told me that no civilization could invoke pure medical care for everyone without going broke. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn confirmed this judgment, adding that no one will ever admit this.
Why can’t we concentrate on what commonsense fixes can be made to correct the false dreams of ObamaCare? Bruce Lee Manhattan
I’m not going to state that the GOP has produced the perfect healthcare answers because, in my opinion, any plan that keeps preexisting conditions in and tort reform out is doomed to failure, like ObamaCare.
However, the Democrats lied in a multitude of ways to pass ObamaCare, yet they are asking us to believe them as they attack a plan that, unlike ObamaCare, is available for review before a vote.
Every honest, thinking person knows that ObamaCare is failing, but the dishonest politicians, on both sides, seemingly cannot or will not work on a reasonable solution. Ignatius Giorgio Brooklyn