And many are losing their existing policies and their choice of doctors. Some say we had to do something to defend Obamacare, but, in this case, something is worse than nothing.

It isn’t as if there aren’t better models. Talk to anyone from the British Isles, other European countries and especially Scotland, where their cost plans assure no such hassles, distinctions, discrimination, subsidies.

In Canada, an individual pays $64 a month for government health care; the maximum a family pays $108. My Canadian cousin’s daughter in the U.S. has a bill of $10,000-plus for ER treatment, and that bill will ruin her. In Australia, retirees can’t be charged anything from any medical professional, and any prescribed medication costs $5.

What’s wrong with this picture? What’s wrong with this country that we are being forced into such an unreasonable, unsatisfactory insurance system?

Anne Reynolds

Durango