Look to '60s for study of health care

U.S. Congressman Sean Casten and Congresswoman Lauren Underwood have been on visits within their House Districts. Both have mentioned health care. Are these two representatives aware that the Democratic Party has been mentioning health care since Sen. Ted Kennedy was first elected?

The Democrats for 40 years have been like the cowboy that has a big hat but no cattle. Kennedy failed in the Senate of presenting health care reform because of one group of citizens. Labor unions do not want universal health care, and the Democratic Party is reliant on the support of labor unions.

Would the striking Chicago Teachers Union or the UAW want reduced health care to provide health care for the rest of the residents of the United States? Have any Democratic presidential candidates mentioned that the health care given to Congress is too expensive for the general public?

There have been no speeches that the European countries with universal health care have income tax rates over 50% and they pay additional fees. For those who think the Canadians have a better system, can you wait over 15 weeks to visit a doctor?

The health care system in the United States needs to be improved. It can only be improved if Congress works with doctors, hospitals, medical staff, drug manufactures and distributors, because every time Congress gets involved in trying to improve something, they destroy what was already there.

The first step that Congress has to due is eliminate their special health care that is available only to the Congress and their staffs. It is time for Casten and Underwood to leave the Democratic health care playbook and start reviewing the health care that Sen. Kennedy proposed in the 1960s.

Jack McCabe

Batavia