Further reform health care reform

Until the U.S. is willing to provide health care instead of having to pay insurance companies for health insurance, we, the ordinary people, need the Affordable Care Act; we actually need more.

I personally have two family members and the child of a friend who will lose coverage if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Congress needs to further reform and find its constituency real health care and discontinue this money making extortion by insurance companies, where we essentially insure ourselves like the bumpers on our cars, instead of providing actual care for ourselves.

Insurance is quickly becoming something only the rich will have. How is it that two people can walk into the same medical provider, for the same service and the one without insurance pays not only a different price, but usually triple the cost of the care? — as if the person without insurance is actually going to have more money to pay. This has got to stop.

Deborah Parker

St. Charles