Letter: Obamacare bad medicine
Your editorial page recently listed five reasons that President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare,” has failed.
The sixth reason, not mentioned in the editorial, was about this bill’s author, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of Rahm Emanuel, who was the architect of then-Sen. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Dr. Emanuel is the chairman of the department of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
When Obama was elected president, Washington insiders thought he would make “Dr. Zeke” the country’s newest surgeon general, but instead Obama made him the architect of “Obamacare,” the cornerstone of his presidency.
Dr. Emanuel his always bragged that “Obamacare” was his baby and it was he who got this health care bill passed.
Despite the many complaints that “Obamacare” is now on its last legs and with Donald Trump announcing that when he is elected president, he will shut down “Obamacare,” Dr. Emanuel announced in August that the bill is not in crisis, but could be better.
It seems that Dr. Emanuel, along with his brother, Rahm, who is now the mayor of Chicago, have turned out to be bad medicine for all the voters.
George Breslaw
Hilton Head Island
This story was originally published October 10, 2016 at 3:13 PM with the headline "Letter: Obamacare bad medicine."