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Buck stops with Trump, GOP on health care
Nancy Danner
Nov. 16, 2025 6:00 am
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I worked in the rural health care field for 45 years. I have watched people come into the emergency room with no health care coverage. I have watched people have to undergo emergency surgery with no health insurance coverage. I have watched children be denied needed surgery for ear tube placement by their insurance company due to a “preexisting condition.” The Affordable Care Act changed all that.
I have listened to members of Congress do nothing but complain about the ACA, but in the 15 years since it was enacted, those same complainers have come up with no better plan. The ACA helps our brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors have affordable and dependable health care coverage. It helps keep hospitals operational.
For the old geezer at the top leading the charge to dismantle the ACA, and for all the members of Congress who want to let the subsidies lapse or vote against it — the buck stops with you!
Nancy Danner
Templeton
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