Health care is not a liberal or a conservative issue. Everyone eventually needs health care during their lives. Both sides of the political spectrum have been blindsided by insurance companies and their need for greed. We are not getting the best medical care, and more and more people are being left behind.
Insurance is a risk-based gambling concept that generates profit from beating the odds. That is not the key to medical care. We need to move from an insurance-based health care system.
Frankly, when you add up the amount of money spent on insurance premiums, deductibles, co-pays, medications not covered by insurance, hospital write-offs for uninsured and the cost of fraud cheating the insurance companies, we could all be covered by a better system through an administered pay-in pool.
We have to be smarter than the problem. We need consensus, not contentiousness. Stop forcing your will and move to work together. Get the insurance, drug and medical-supply lobbyists out of the pockets of our congressmen and senators.
Ladies and gentlemen, clean up your swamp. Work together for the common good.
Patrick W. Emmett
Overland Park
