Editor:

I was angered by Ashley Lynn Fisher’s article on Obamacare that basically just repeated Fox News or The Blaze’s rhetoric. I feel that insurance companies should be the ones taking the blame for the canceled policies, not the president.  They were the ones who knowingly sold healthcare plans that they knew would not pass new standards implemented by the law. 

The columnist mentioned that everyone has known this law was coming for three years.  Shouldn’t health insurance companies bear some of the brunt of responsibility for not getting policies up to standards?  They have had three years to do so and have done nothing.  They have also acted as though they had no power in all of this.  Is it not also false advertising to provide health insurance that essentially covers nothing?

Should we really go back to what it was before, when companies could deny you coverage because of pre-existing conditions?  Health insurance is projected to take more than 50 percent of income of families by 2050 if left in the private sector.  Most Americans simply cannot afford to pay that much of their income toward health insurance and would have to go without.

Is the law perfect? Not by any means.  However, for now it’s the best we have, and lawmakers should use the system instead of abusing it to change the law for the better.

Abigail Brewer

Psychology graduate student

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