Going Backward on Health Care

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/opinion/going-backward-on-health-care.html

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To the Editor:

Re “Don’t Try to Fix Obamacare. Abolish It” (Op-Ed, March 16):

What Erick-Woods Erickson describes as a solution to our health care problems is exactly what we had before the Affordable Care Act, except that the reality was nothing like the outcome he describes.

“Unleashing free-market competition” meant that many of us could not even get health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. When we were able to get it, premiums went up each year so that after a few years we’d be forced to start shopping for a new plan, usually with ridiculously high deductibles.

Many of us stayed in dead-end jobs for years just to keep our health insurance.

Why would we want to plunge ourselves back into that situation?

MARY HUMSTONEFORT COLLINS, COLO.