Don’t end health care law, improve it

Perhaps the health care reform law is not all we want it to be, but it is a start. Now is the time to improve it and make it more comprehensive rather than repealing it.

While the current bill has key points in it that are positive, we should make improvements toward universal health care. Example:

Ÿ Make health care nonprofit, the way Blue Cross/Blue Shield began, so regardless who the carrier is the cost does not skyrocket out of control.

Ÿ Make payments come out of federal taxes so no matter where we live we have a level playing field for citizens — thus taking it out of the hands of employers.

Ÿ Make the plan apply to our representatives (Congress, Senate, etc.) so we are all under the same umbrella.

No need to wrestle with choice or competition between companies because the choices will be there for all of us and no reason for one plan to work better than another when the coverage is the same. The health care law does not need to be repealed, it needs to be reformed. This is the message we should be giving our elected representatives.

Lionel Griffen

Downers Grove