An Open Letter to my Congresspeople, Part Three

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Dear Senators Bennet and Gardner, and Representative Buck,

I am writing today to express my disappointment with the so-called "Consumer Freedom Amendment" proposed by Senator Cruz as a possible change to the Republican Healthcare plan. 

Such a plan would still put the sickest people in a position where they are pooled together as a risk group, while healthier people won't be required to share that burden. 

The sickest among us would be priced right out of the market, regardless of whether or not the government provided some level of subsidy. 

I don't know how else to say this: Any new healthcare plan must be BETTER than the ACA. It must provide MORE coverage, for MORE people, regardless of the Insurance Companies' preference. Their market is changing, and they must change with it or find something else to do. They don't get to continue to feed at the public trough at the expense of your constituents. 

Perhaps the Senator doesn't understand how "insurance" is supposed to work. Spreading the risk among a large pool means the system is working as designed. 

Please, put country before party for once in your careers and WORK TOGETHER to come up with a viable healthcare plan that is BETTER for most Americans, and not WORSE.


Signed, 

Janiece

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