GOP Crash-and-Burn: ObamaCare Lives On
Between the Benedict Arnold Republicans and the obstructionist Democrats, the Senate has ignored the overwhelming need to reform our health-care system by failing to pass a repeal of ObamaCare (“Mac the knife kills health bill,” July 28).
Once again, our lawmakers are putting their egos ahead of the American people. Shame on them. We deserve better. Robert Dickenstein Paramus, NJ
Americans elected President Trump and voted in Republicans to repeal ObamaCare. There’s no need to replace it with different regulations. A free-market system would do just fine.
It’s not just the healthcare system that has suffered from ObamaCare. I have family members who have lost jobs and can’t get full-time or decent-paying jobs. Those with low-paying jobs keep getting their hours cut because of ObamaCare.
Any Republican against a repeal should join the Democratic Party. John Clabough Pine Bush
Instead of Washington acting like a sandbox full of toddlers who can’t play together, our representatives should get to the root of the problem they’re trying to address by repealing the Affordable Care Act: Health care is too expensive.
The World Health Organization ranks the US health-care system at No. 15, the worst in the developed world. The average cost of a day in the hospital in 2014 was $5,220, thousands more than in Spain or Australia.
Let’s not even get started on the manipulation of drug prices by Big Pharma, lobbyists and the Food and Drug Administration.
The problem with US health care is that it costs too much, plain and simple. Lower the cost of health care, and it will be more accessible. Heather Wendell Coconut Grove, Fla.
Democrats have no answers to the health-care problem — a situation that they put us in.
Their answer is always the same: More borrowing, more spending, a lower quality of service and more government intrusion. Then they blame everyone else when it all hits the fan. John Dumary Duanesburg
The party that gave us the mess that is ObamaCare celebrated as Republicans failed to deliver on their promise to repeal it.
As long as both sides have nothing more at stake than whether they win the next election, this will continue. Members of Congress and their staffs who write these horrible laws should be stripped of their health-care subsidies, which come at our expense.
Maybe once they realize they can’t exempt themselves from the bur- den of paying for their own plans, they’ll take reforming the health-insurance system more seriously. Gary Mottola Brooklyn
Sen. John McCain played possum and voted “no” on the skinny repeal at the last moment, as the Trump team was uncorking the Dom Perignon.
This was good news for the Democrats, as Trump’s base will now demand more conservative candidates in the 2018 elections to deliver on their agenda.
These super-conservatives might drive more moderate Republican voters to the Democratic alternative. This is a fitting end to an ill-advised national flirtation with kleptocracy, orchestrated by a B-list reality TV personality.
Maybe it’s time to face the hard fact that the emperor has no clothes. Ron Spurga Manhattan
It is past time for Sens. McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, who blocked the skinny repeal, to stop pretending they’re Republicans just so they can get re-elected.
These three are undermining the Republican Party. Marty Perry Massapequa
The Republicans’ incompetent mishandling of the ObamaCare repeal has opened the door for the left to push singlepayer.
I hope someone has the intelligence to flush this idea, which would bankrupt the country.
If it’s possible for the two parties to work together, this would be the time. Dave Marsh Clearwater, Fla.