Health care in trouble

Haters are out of the closet again. I recall conversations with young women pronouncing that they are not feminists and didn’t understand the need. We are poised to lose our health care and equally important Planned Parenthood (the only place I could get care as a teen). Guess when a woman runs for the top job it is time to put them all in their places again.

The president-elect stated that women should be punished if they want an abortion (rape or any other reason not important). With less access to health care, many of us will get our due. Men do not seem to be part of the equation.

As to “repeal and replace.” Both parties have had decades to develop universal health care, with Gov. Mitt Romney one of the first to successfully do so (it stands today), followed by ACA. Do I really think there will be a replacement? Not at all. The masses will get mad, but if “we” wait long enough, it will be forgotten. The problem with these grand schemes is that real people pay the price (most of us in fact) and will do so with our lives. Is that really what we want?

Torie Foote

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