In poor taste to celebrate Obamacare
Joseph D. Coco Jr. | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 9 months AGO
This letter is in response to retired Columbia Falls school teacher Phil Lewis’ letter in the Whitefish Pilot (April 2) titled “Praise for Obamacare.”
It is easy for Mr. Lewis to be ecstatic about paying significantly lower health insurance premiums than he did before the Affordable Care Act; however, he doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for the thousands of Montanans who must now pay significantly higher insurance premiums so that Mr. Lewis can enjoy lower premiums.
In his letter, Mr. Lewis failed to point out he is the recipient of redistributed wealth confiscated from his fellow citizens, and it is rather frustrating to hear singing and dancing emanating from the Lewis household when thousands of Montanans, because of significant health insurance premium increases, must sacrifice dignified retirements for themselves or college educations for their own children so that Mr. Lewis’ joy can be possible.
It is wrong for the federal government to force some citizens to pay significantly higher health insurance premiums so that Mr. Lewis can enjoy lower premiums, and I think it is in poor taste to celebrate a law that has hurt so many Montanans.
Unlike, Mr. Lewis, those who are paying the true costs of his health insurance don’t have much to celebrate. To praise such a policy appears insensitive to those who are forced to pay extra so Mr. Lewis’s early retirement can be so blissful.
— Joseph D. Coco Jr.
ARTICLES BY JOSEPH D. COCO JR.
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