Thanks for supporting House health reform bill
I am an American who believes it is a moral imperative to provide basic, stable and routine health care for the nation’s citizens. Many clearly do not agree.
We can continue the long, fruitless argument that can continue to serve as a colossal diversion — or look not to beliefs, but to facts.
We need reform because the way health care is funded in this country is not economically sustainable. We are rationing by restricting access to routine care while paying exorbitantly for the resultant urgent care.
And I say “we” because uninsured patients must receive hospital care regardless of ability to pay. We all get stuck with the unpaid bills.
Such a perversely perfect lose-lose structure goes a long way toward explaining why the United States has the most expensive health care system in the world while ranking 37th in health indictors.
We aren’t getting our money’s worth. The current system is projected to take 50 cents of every dollar in a few decades without reforms.
So thank you, Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., for taking a stand and voting for HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
Thank you for not allowing anything to be an excuse for inaction.
Adeline Talbot
Greensboro
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