ACA: Fair coverage wanted

I moved to Idaho about nine months ago. I read that Idaho state legislators have their health insurance paid substantially by the state. A husband and wife (state legislator) paid $200 per month for both. I owned and operated a small business for years. The health insurance for me alone was five times that amount and I am not a person with lots of preconditions. A part-time government job provides extremely inexpensive family health coverage while many of us struggle to maintain health insurance.

Those who are enjoying this Idaho paid coverage should find a way to help the rest of us in Idaho maintain quality coverage. I read recently that if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, approximately 82,650 people will lose their health insurance credit and Idaho’s health insurance exchange will lose $220 million in tax subsidies, according to Your Health Idaho director, Pat Kelly.

Repeal of the Affordable Care Act is all we hear. How about specific means to allow all of us to have good health insurance? Our legislators who are getting essentially a free ride should be working to help the rest of us. If something is broken we fix it. That’s just common sense to me.

PHIL WARD

Coeur d’Alene