Re: "A GOP Fix for Health Care" — Letters that should have been in the new york times

7/20/17

To the editor:

J.D. Vance (NYT, 7/20/17, A GOP fix for health care) in arguing for government's culpability in the healthcare crisis likens its role to a speeding truck hitting an innocent man. As he says, government 'helped create' the problem and 'bears some financial responsibility' in fixing it. I find the metaphor profoundly lacking in its emphasis on governmental activity, rather than inactivity, as the source of the problem.

I would suggest that Republicans have been asleep at the wheel and, having become the majority party, have shown themselves to be reckless drivers devoid of a moral compass necessary to effect change. Startled into wakefulness they have hit the gas pedal risking plowing down millions who have been helped under Obamacare.

Perhaps J. D. Vance’s piece will inspire some Republicans in Congress to move more wisely towards a bipartisan solution to this complex problem.

Respectfully,

Larry S. Sandberg