Hi Bess

I see your point however I hope you will consider that your suggestion will likely have little effect as many of the congress persons you are referring to have more than enough money to cover the costs associated with the end results of your suggestion.

After twenty years of working in the medical sector – home health, inpatient and outpatient services – I can tell you that healthcare is not and has never been “a right” in the United State, though it should be. People are denied care every day- perhaps not in the emergency room, but for primary care, rehabilitation, substance abuse treatment, specialty care, dental care, reproductive care. Providers can and do say “no” to patients who don’t have the right insurance coverage (for seniors, that means Medicare plus a strong supplemental policy). Often, providers will not even consider private pay arrangements. “The market” is not going to provide for poor and low income, or middle class folks, for that matter. That is the big lie that is being spread through right wing media.

Mine also. The lowest premium is $1,018.00 per month in the state of PA. I have no pre-existing conditions.

Thank you, Rick, for your post. Increase cost is why ACA needs to be fixed not repealed and replaced by people who think nothing of cost or coverage as they receive all of their healthcare needs at the expense of taxpayers like you and me.

I am curious about why anyone who would vote for this character would be in a helping profession at all, frankly. I’m baffled.

He does understand the consequences – very well. That’s why we’re all in such danger.

Health care is already a right. Third party payor coverage is not a right, but a good to be purchased by individual choice. One size does not fit all, when it comes to any type of insurance, including health insurance. I hope the Senate version opens the market between states, includes tort reform and allows consumers to purchase the health plans that best fit their needs.