Vote on healthcare

On the campaign website of our Congressional Representative, John Joyce, he says the following concerning health care: “I will finish what President Trump has started and fight to dismantle Obamacare completely. We need a system that relies on the private sector and that doesn’t artificially inflate the market with subsidies that only increase prices.” His stance in defense of the private market is perhaps not surprising when you consider that, according to the Federal Elections Commission, Rep. Joyce gets more than 60% of his campaign contributions from corporate PACs, including big banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. It is just astonishing that in the midst of a raging pandemic exacerbated by the criminal negligence, brazen mendacity, gross incompetence, and breath-taking ignorance of President Trump and his sycophantic toadies, that Rep. Joyce would want to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), thereby causing millions to lose their health insurance and millions more to lose protections for pre-existing conditions.

It is time to give the lot of them the boot. Fortunately, we have another choice. Todd Rowley is a candidate in the November election for the Congressional seat currently held by Rep. Joyce. According to his campaign website, he believes that “universal, affordable, quality healthcare is a basic human right”. He supports many of the same enhancements to the Affordable Care Act that are in former Vice President Joe Biden’s health care plan and in the proposed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act (HR1425), including expanding subsidies to make health care more affordable for more people, adding a Medicare-like public option, and lowering drug prices.

I have always been a health-care voter, but the pandemic has helped to put healthcare at the top of my priority issues list. How about you? Will you join me in being a health care voter?

Jeff Colvin,
Gettysburg