ACA needs repair, not elimination
To build the wall along our southern border will cost anywhere from $10 to $15 billion. Mr. Trump has stated that the American people will pay until Mexico pays.
The tariffs he has proposed on Mexico means you and I will also pay more for goods and services coming from Mexico.
How to pay for the wall? The dismantling of the Affordable Care Act comes to mind. While much has been written on the increase of premiums and the problem of fewer options for health care insurers, all would agree the ACA needs repair, but not total elimination.
Do we remember the protections that benefit everyone? No lifetime limits, no preexisting restrictions, and coverage of adult children who may be without jobs or have health issues.
The ACA needs to be fixed but not gutted. Subsidies and tax credits will not adequately take care of how to insure people, neither is providing interstate plans of uncertain regulation and quality.
A wall could be built and along with that, we could lose the protections of the ACA and people will enter the emergency rooms driving up costs even further.
We should speak up and voice our concerns. There are ways to repair what is not working but to eliminate what does work would certainly mean that we will have pay much more.
Sandy Spiegel
Geneva