Pandering on health care

I understand why the Republicans in Congress are pushing this tax cut for the rich that is disguised as a health care plan. They can pander to two of their biggest supporters: the top 1 percent and the insurance industry. Note: 1) Health insurance companies contributed more than $26 million to congressmen last year alone. 2) Insurance companies have done everything they can to make Obamacare fail by pulling out of states' exchanges. 3) As always, the rich want to get richer. (The top 1 percent owns more than 43 percent of the country's wealth and that number is growing.)

What I don't understand is why average Americans continue to support policies that go against their best interests. If this bill passes, special needs children and adults won't get the services they need, women will go without prenatal care, children will go without regular check ups and care, seniors 55-65 won't be able to afford insurance, nursing home patients on Medicaid will have to find somewhere else to live and people will die. These are facts. When are Americans going to wake up and realize, regardless of who they voted for last fall, how disgusting and cruel this bill is and insist that their representatives in Washington not support it?

Patt Heise

Grayslake