Healthcare system helps only corporations

No matter what you call it - Affordable Care Act (misnomer), Obamacare, Ryancare or Trumpcare - it will never fix the runaway costs of healthcare in the U.S. that is the highest in the world. We overmedicate, overutilize, over-diagnose and over-treat our citizens in our sickcare system. Until our Washington politicians have an honest discussion with their constituents on the root causes of the problem, nothing will change. It will just get worse.

We have a failed food growing and processing system delivering too little nutrients and too many trace toxins that are impacting the health of Americans from the cradle to the grave. In turn, our healthcare providers are not addressing the issues of prevention and reversal of disease states. Our corporate medical entities are the beneficiary and not the American public of a lobbyist-designed healthcare system. In the meantime, we will go deeper into debt with the excess cost of healthcare contributing around a trillion dollars per year.

Thomas A. Braun

Mount Prospect