Why isn't Congress on Affordable Care?

Dear Senator Durbin, to your perception that the ACA is working I would respectively ask, for whom? I have lost three health insurance policies in the last four years that I liked and I could afford, contrary to what I was told by the president and you.

As a matter of fact almost six million Americans, many of them my neighbors and family members, have lost their doctors and health insurance plans.

My latest health insurance plan increased 87 percent year-over-year and my deductible went from $2,500 per year to $13,000 per year. All this as my income has dropped. And you say the ACA is working. I'd hate to see it if it wasn't working.

The fact is this is not a sustainable law. It is crumbling under it's own bureaucratic weight. The fact is if you say 16 million have signed up for the ACA out of 330 million Americans, then subtract the six million who've lost their policies, the ACA has effectively provided health insurance for less than 5 percent of Americans. And it's taken almost five years to do that. That's not working, that's dismal.

And if the ACA is so great, then why isn't the Senate and the Congress on it.

Mike Simon

Glen Ellyn