Lost principles
The rallying cry of “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” that animated the Republican answer to the Affordable Care Act has morphed into the prospect of open-ended chaos and pain for countless Americans.
The driving force behind morally indefensible cuts to health services for those truly in need is to insure that the wealthiest taxpayers receive a generous gift of lower taxes.
Lost in the frantic scuffling and deal-making to make a bad Senate GOP bill more palatable should be two guiding principles of health care reform: 1) that good health care is a right for us all and is in everyone’s interest, and 2) that universal, affordable coverage is our urgent goal.
Anything less than that will sell our country short and will prove to make us all worse off.
Richard Villastrigo, Stormstown
This story was originally published July 4, 2017 at 10:44 PM with the headline "Lost principles."