Allyson Wendt makes the common mistake of singling out one political party over the other to blame for the entire health-care system debacle. She forgets that politicians are politicians, regardless of the letter that follows their name.
While the Republican plan is far from perfect, let's take a look at what the Democrats did to health care.
First of all, we were told we could keep our health-care plans if we liked them; then, the Democrats took it upon themselves to decide which plans were “qualified” or not and people ended up losing their health-care plans anyway.
Disastrous Obamacare exchanges quoted people outrageous prices (one example I know of: $400 a month for someone in their late 20s who is healthy).
Obamacare increased deductibles. (Mine is $6,500 a year, and it just reset so I have thousands in medical bills I must pay out of pocket now.)
If you could not afford the outrageous Obamacare premiums, for health insurance with a huge deductible that would not cover anything anyway, the Democrats gave the IRS the power to come along and charge you an outrageous fine.
The IRS, the most powerful collections agency in the world, can garnish your wages, seize your assets, and even jail you for failure to pay them. This is not compassionate and it was never affordable; it was barbaric and a classic case of government meddling.
Personal responsibility is part of health care, and those stricken with chronic disease need coverage, too, but the money has to come from someone, somewhere.
The answer as I see it is to remove all health-care plans for all of our politicians, and force them onto Obamacare with the rest of us. That might motivate how to “fix” health care for all.