Reader’s Write: Obamacare doing harm to many

The Island Now

Dear Congressman Israel:

As a long-time Democrat, I write with alarm at the harm that Obamacare has done to our family while its disastrous roll out seems a harbinger of worse things to come. 

I believed that reform of our health-care system was needed and something had to be done about the 15 percent of the American population who had no coverage but did you have to participate in a plan that makes everything worse?

Our family’s health insurance rates have gone up more than 50 percent and my daughter’s job search has led to offers of part-time work. Is this a coincidence or another unintended consequence of Obamacare? 

Did you actually read the Obamacare bill when you voted for it or did you vote first and read it afterwards as the House Leader Nancy Pelosi has allegedly suggested.

Obamacare was to cut costs, extend coverage but allow Americans to keep their own insurance and physicians if they wanted to. 

Virtually none of this has come to pass and I have little confidence it will. 

Maybe your real goal was some form of socialized medicine in response to some far left belief system or you were caving in to lobbyists or connected interest groups but shouldn’t there come a point when you actually act in the best interests of your constituents and the nation at large?

John Frangos

Manhasset Times

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