18 January 2017
Everyone in the United States that pays taxes, contributes toward everyone's medical and prescription bills. That means I pay some percent toward your health bills and you pay some percent toward mine. Do you realize how far-reaching that is? It was not always that way. Earlier in my life, sometimes I carried health insurance and sometimes I didn't. It was totally my CHOICE. I paid my doctor and/or hospital, or I didn't. It was always between me and my doctor. A private matter. In a “free” republic such as ours, that is precisely how it should be. The federal government has no business in my personal health issues.
Health costs went up and health care deteriorated after the federal government got involved. The first public health insurance program was signed into law in 1965. Why? For 189 years the United States functioned very well without the federal government being involved in citizens' health issues.
I think it is unconstitutional that my tax money pays for another person's health care. No matter if a person makes irresponsible choices – even criminal - drugs, alcohol, health issues from smoking, sexual diseases, pregnancies out of wedlock, self-inflicted injury, even obesity – the federal government covers the medical costs, through me, a taxpayer. A person's health care is a private matter. I don't want to pay for anyone else's health care regardless of their choices. I don't want anyone else to pay for my health care.
I want The Affordable Health Care Act repealed. I don't want the federal government to replace it. Perhaps freeze the benefits as they are for one year, allowing citizens the opportunity to obtain their own medical insurance.
Montie Kay Combe
975 South Main St
Space 158
St George Utah 84770
