To the editor:
Thank you for drawing much-needed attention to the frightening speed and heartlessness with which Senate Republicans are dismantling the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act along with Medicaid. (“GOP's secret Trumpcare bill will impact a sixth of the U.S. economy. What could possibly go wrong?” editorial, June 21)
I am sick with worry about the suffering this will cause—for people with preexisting conditions, for the 24 million who have gotten much-needed coverage through expanded Medicaid, for middle-class families with elderly parents in nursing homes, and for those of us on employer plans who will see our coverage decrease and lifetime spending caps imposed.
Trumpcare has something to hurt almost everyone—except the very rich who will get a tax cut and can afford to self-insure. Is this really the kind of society we want?
Cynthia Freeman, Los Angeles
Note from KBJ: Earth to Cynthia: ObamaCare is a disaster. Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats lied to enact it and many people have lost health-care coverage because of it. Even those who haven't lost coverage are now paying far more for the coverage they have. Good work, Obama!
