Letter to the Editor
Huntsville Times
Published Monday, March 27, 2006
The Association Health Plans proposed by President Bush and now being considered by Congress will not be of any help to middle-class and working families. It is a plan for the rich who can already afford health care.
Here is what it would do:
Increase the number of uninsured by up to a million workers.
Increase premiums for 86 percent of small businesses.
Deny coverage to older and sick people.
Dodge state coverage requirements, like childhood vaccinations.
Allow exemptions from mandated benefits, like cancer screening.
Eliminate our power to appeal rejected claims.
Hard-working families need relief from the rising costs of health care, not a plan making our insurance less affordable, less accessible and less secure.
We refused to let Bush “privatize” Social Security. We can refuse to let him mess up the health care we have.
What we need is a single-payer, national health care system that covers everybody.
It’s shameful that one-fifth of our population have no health care.
Reese Danley-Kilgo
Huntsville, 35802