May 4, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
Well, the Internet and media Gods all tell me that today is
going to be a big day for you – the House will vote on your healthcare plan to
replace The Affordable Care Act. I'm so
disgusted by the whole process at this point that I'm just going to tune out
for the rest of the day and not check in until tomorrow (or maybe even the day
after that). I can only handle so much
obnoxiousness in one week. It's becoming
both practically and psychologically difficult for me to keep up with you.
I am also hesitant to skewer your healthcare plan just yet because
I don't fully understand just what the hell is in it. You have kept it top secret so no one knows
what you are doing or proposing and regardless of what it does or doesn't contain,
it's going to get changed by Congress anyway so who even knows what the final
plan will be. But believe me, I will be weighing in on it once I know what
"it" is.
I'm sure you saw Jimmy Kimmel's emotional monologue about
his son's heart surgery. Everyone has an
opinion about the rightness or wrongness of that, but there was one thing he
said that really struck home for me. He
said:
"This
isn't football, there are no teams. We
ARE the team. It's the United
States. Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us
on something that
every
decent person wants." (meaning healthcare)
Every single person in this country needs healthcare, it's as simple as that. This should NOT be a partisan issue.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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