We all feel the pinch of rising health care costs, and
now Congress is considering legislation that would allow insurance companies to
tack on an extra “age-tax” that would hit older consumers the hardest.
The bill in Congress, the American Healthcare Act, would
have the biggest impact on consumers age 50 to 64, who are still too young for
Medicare. I am one of those people. At 58, I could be charged five times
more for insurance coverage than insurers charge younger adults for the same
policies if this bill is passed.
Drug companies and insurance companies would reap big
rewards while older adults would lose coverage or go without care.
Rather than target people for higher premiums based on
their age, we should work harder for policies that benefit everyone, including
lower prices for prescription drugs, better coordination of care, and
elimination of waste, fraud and abuse that add costs for all of us.
The American Healthcare Act is not about health and it’s
not about care. Instead of imposing an age-tax on older consumers to
increase profits for insurance companies, we should focus on reducing health
care costs to make health care more affordable. Making it even harder for
older Americans to pay for health care cannot be the answer.
Carol Laverriere
Windham
Dear
Editor,
To
all the dedicated Eagle readers and in remberence of the few that remain that
may recall the “Month of March 1945”
It was at that time that world freedom held
its breath!
The
Marines and others were the first on a piece of Japanese real estate a few
short miles from their homeland in that unforgiving war.
(Which
way would the pendulum swing?)
Human
life was the high cost rendered for world freedom. Let us, in a moment of deep
thought offer our sacred blessing, for their most sacred cost!
“IWO
Jima was its name”.
Submitted
by,
CPL.
Fred Collins
United
States Marine Corps
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