Healthcare by Government

A well-educated constituent asks a US Congressman questions about the proposed new American Health Care Act ("ACHA"; "Trumpcare"). The thoughtful questions were published in the Steamboat Springs, Colorado, newspaper, Steamboat Today. __________________________ I write in response to U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton’s commentary in the March 12 issue. Tipton indicated that…

Get government out of health care! Oh, really? How? Eliminate Medicare? No one wants that! And wait – Medicare IS the government’s healthcare since 1965. Oh, OK. Let’s eliminate the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)! But wait again. The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) takes health insurance away from the powerful health…