Ted, Your personal story is unfortunate, but it is not universal. I can't say I blame you for being bitter. At this same time though over 20 million Americans have health insurance under the ACA. Insurance companies, and Republicans, now understand that they cannot refuse care for pre-existing conditions. Trump has promised for 5 years to replace it with ???? There is no Republican alterative, and the reason is that, under current circumstances, there is no other way to fund health care for all Americans. As for Europeans feeling unhappy with their systems, their national health statistics prove those systems work better for their people than ours does for us. Even Trump was surprised at how hard it is to devise another approach. It's high time in this country to drop health care as a political issue and reframe it as a n ational obligation, a citizen's right to basic service and not a commodity for sale to any who can simply write a check.
