28 July, 2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re: Your
KISS solution
I’m sure
the sense of utter relief I feel on the (I hope final) death blow to “repeal
and replace” is shared by the vast majority of my fellow Americans, if not by
you. We have been left twisting in the partisan political winds for far too
long. Senator John McCain’s vote, late last night, put paid to the “skinny”
version—which was in fact so skinny as to be invisible. It was simply a ruse to
throw the already stinking corpse back to the House for you members of Congress
to resuscitate. You must be happy, I assume, to be relieved of that
responsibility. But who knows…
A propos of
which, I read your KISS (the sainted Ronald Reagan’s “Keep It Simple, Stupid”)
op-ed piece on the health care piece in USA today. Your solution is to shift
responsibility for pre-existing conditions over to Medicare and leave everyone
else to fend for themselves, so far as health care insurance is concerned. I’m
afraid your solution is too simple. Even Trump had begun to notice what “nobody
knew before”, that health care is a thorny issue. I think, first, you’d have
trouble persuading your Republican colleagues to add massively to the costs of
Medicare. And then, what happens to all those who in their infinite (and
probably juvenile) wisdom opt out of insurance altogether, only to be hit by a
disastrous accident or serious illness or disease? Do we just let them die? Or
force them and their families into financial ruin, in view of their
irresponsibility?
So what
happens next? It’s unconscionable to “let Obamacare fail”, as your dear leader
suggests. You Republican members of Congress, along with the Senate, must now
work together with Democrats to improve the health care system that we have. In
many ways, it is working well for the American people. It needs good faith
efforts to make it work still better.
And of
course, as you’re by now tired of hearing me say, there’s always single-payer…
(KISS!)
Respectfully,
Peter
Clothier, Ph.D.
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