In 1935, Congress enacted Social Security for all Americans. Since its inception, that program has been changed, amended and adjusted hundreds of times.
Thirty years later, Medicare and Medicaid were adopted as well. Those programs, too, were adjusted, amended and changed many times, all in an effort to improve those existing programs so that each of those three programs could improve the lives of the American people. That was a time when Congress was willing to work together to actually achieve those desired results.
An honest look at the Affordable Care Act, referred to as Obamacare, would reveal that it has helped some as well as hurt some. Unlike those other mentioned programs, no amendments or changes were ever offered to improve Obamacare. Political posturing takes precedence over improving American health, evidenced by the fact that insurance lobbyists were permitted to meet with Mitch McConnell while turning away organizations such as AARP who represent the voice of elderly Americans.
Despite the fact that we were very far from wealthy, I watched my mother collect clothes for those a little less fortunate than ourselves. Watching healthcare being taken away from those that struggle to put food on the table and to pay for their medication is a humanitarian insult, especially when it is paid for by giving trillion-dollar tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.
— Charles Thomas,
Lima
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