Let's wait to see final health care plan

I would like to address some of Dr. Javeed Akhter's points in a recent Guest View.

He says that under the Trump plan millions would loose coverage. How many millions will decide not to get insurance coverage now that they will be free to choose whether to get coverage or not?

The doctor tells a sad story about a young woman with cystic fibrosis that lost her insurance when she decided to quit her job and go back to school. She quit her job knowing she had a serious illness but did not plan ahead to get health care arranged. No health care system in the world can help if an individual does not plan ahead.

Dr. Akhter says that high cost of health insurance under Obamacare is such that the middle class is worse off than those on state insurance. The cost of my health insurance through my employer has doubled in the last three years. I am sure other people have more horrific examples of skyrocketing costs of health care. The reason for these astronomical cost increases is that the middle class was being charged for the subsidies that others were getting.

Americans had the best health care system in the world before Obamacare. Now we are struggling just to pay the premiums; God forbid we get sick and have to pay the first $10,000 of the medical bill. Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight. Its intentions were good but the execution was unsustainable.

The health care being proposed by Trump is being criticized because it eliminates some of the freebies that were incorporated into Obamacare that have proved to be unsustainable. Let's wait till the proposal is finalized and see if we can get back to a health care system that is again the best in the world.

Dan Sokolowski

Elgin