GOP must admit healthcare is our right

Have you seen the recent commercial praising Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and the Republican House for their wonderful, great ideal Trumpcare bill they passed? Unbelievable: 23 percent of Americans agree with this unworkable, insufficient and tax break for the wealthy bill.

Do Republicans really think, as the president appears to think, that Americans are all stupid? Do they really think that because they say a lie often enough we citizens will agree? Republicans convinced themselves for eight years that Obamacare was the worst bill ever passed.

Americans are speaking up and facing our reality that had Republicans worked over the last eight years, to really sit down and come up with realistic changes, we Americans would not now be facing the mess we are in over healthcare/insurance. Republicans set it up perfectly for the insurance companies to gouge us, which in turn would turn back to a time when “healthcare was not a right.” Until Republicans admit that healthcare is a right, we the American citizens will continue to loose. Without a strong understanding that Americans (all) have this right, there is no starting point.

If we American voters continue to vote for legislators who only care about party and the wealthy, we will never come close to being the best country in the world. President Trump does not bring real change to the office of the presidency because he has no fundamental understanding of what a democracy is. He does not understand the three branches of our government as laid out in our Constitution. He creates chaos on an hourly basis so nothing can ever be worked out. We have real needs in America: cleaning up Obamacare (not just repealing it), infrastructure, tax codes, cost of food, the Russian attack on our elections and our way of life.

If we keep voting in people who are bringing harm to our democracy by doing nothing, then we can only expect what we have now: puppets who follow a leaderless Congress. Maybe we really need to look at term limits and giving the Congress the same medical insurance that we end up with. Maybe then, and only then, will these Americans understand that we do not live with a dictator leading us.

This story was originally published May 31, 2017 at 2:28 PM with the headline "GOP must admit healthcare is our right."