Abolish the monster Obamacare

I am happy that Obamacare worked for Susan Timmins because she must be affluent enough to afford the premiums and deductibles, but it does not work for many others. And why not? Consider the following:

1. We had a healthcare system that was said to work for 80 percent of the people. We decided to throw it out to have it work for a few.

2. Remember President Obama at the time telling us if we liked our doctor and our healthcare coverage we could keep it? Many have called it a lie, because he knew with skyrocketing costs it would destroy the insurance industry and create a single payer system run by Washington.

3. Remember when Nancy Pelosi told us Congress had to pass the ACA to find out what was in it? There were new taxes, pregnancy coverage for men, mandatory psychological coverage for people who did not want it, escalating insurance premiums to cover pre-existing conditions without any actuarial basis, and abortion coverage for employees of religious orders.

Congressional Democrats and the president, along strict party lines with no consensus, gave us perpetual partisan strife. Obama's mentor, Saul Alinsky, was alive and well in the White House because he had created a system designed to destroy the Constitution and the government itself through exorbitant demands which no government could fulfill.

Costs have gone through the roof: According to DHS, premiums are up 85 percent in Florida; average deductible for a family of four in Manatee, Sarasota, and Hillsborough counties is $7,000 a year in addition to premiums of over $1,000 monthly; and coverage for Americans under ACA is jeopardized as insurers drop out of the exchange.

Forward thinking Congress-persons such as Congressman Buchanan are working to cut costs and restore sanity to resolve healthcare concerns. Thus, step one to abolish a monster.

This story was originally published May 28, 2017 at 5:16 PM with the headline "Abolish the monster Obamacare."