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Re: Opinion, p 4, Vol 38 #10 January 30, 2020

Madam,

In response to your coverage of Andrew Romanoff, Esq., I submit the following:

1. Why should those who have never paid into Medicare (Health Care Finance Agency/ HCFA) be permitted to withdraw coverage?
2. SSA is bankrupt, primarily because more are taking out, than have put in, which is contrary to what FDR promised, what is to prevent this from happening to Medicare for All?
3. Adding up Mr. Romanoff’s arithmetic, premiums, deductibles, &c., is misleading:
   1. It does not include 50% of premiums paid by the employer;
   2. It does not include the 30 million illegals who have never paid in, nor will they;
   3. It does not include the 40% of all hospital beds and hospitals, such as Shriners’ Hospital for Children, St. Jude’s Hospital for Children, The Sisters’ of Carondelet Hospital System, The Baptist Hospital System, The Seventh Day Adventist System, The Trump Pavilion (funded by the Trump Family specializing in geriatric care, located in Jamaica NYC) &c. who are non-profit/ charitable institutions and are not included in any cost analysis by The Left, and who provide medical services without charge to all who need it;
   4. It certainly does not figure in how national health services ration care by establishing quotas of service per physician as the U.K.’s National Health Service does, meaning that doctors must perform X number of procedures per year, and when that number is reached, they can move on to insured patients; &
   5. All of the NHS’s Mr. Romanoff mentions have private insurers running parallel to them, and that many patient, those who can afford it, come to the U.S.
4. 18% vs 10% doesn’t show how Americans pay for the bulk of all drug and medical research and development;
5. 18% vs 10% doesn’t show how cancer survival rates in those countries is stuck in the 1960’s and not as high as they are in 2020 U.S.A.’
6. Waiting six to 10 months for an MRI or a prostate biopsy doesn’t compare to the two weeks here in the U.S.A. refutes the phrase, quality of care;
7. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that for the first time since the PPACA (Patient Protection Affordable Care Act/ Obamacare) life expectancy has increased;
8. K. N.H.S. accounts for over 30% of the national budget. That may be only 10% of G.D.P., but it depends upon what agency budgets are counted. Buildings are not part of the N.H.S. budget as they are Crown Properties, (this may have changed since I last checked), thus, the 10% figure is misleading;
9. The countries listed don’t have any militaries as they have redirected funding from self-defense to a faux healthcare solution. These are the same countries who depend upon the U.S. Military to defend them. Is Mr. Romanoff going to shut down our Army, our Navy, our Air Force, our Marine Corps, our Coast Guard, and our Space Force, to pay for Medicare for All?
10. Not to get into a discussion over the importance of the Second Amendment, but to honestly and legally afflict it, one must go to Article V of the Constitution, why doesn’t Mr. Romanoff, a product of a mostly Ivy League education, discuss this, or is he a member of that group who believes in Judicial Legislation when it benefits him, but is not in favor of we the people making our own decisions?
11. Based on the last 60 years of national government, regardless of what is said and promised on the campaign trail, Democrats going to congress always vote en bloc, with the coastal plutocrats. Just look at Jason Crow. Where did Mr. Romanoff stand up and condemn the Russia Hoax? The many Obama scandals? The current Impeachment Hoax? &c.; &
12. Finally, his talking about so much, President Trumps 2020 State of the Union address, a summary of his administration’s accomplishments, where was Mr. Romanoff on any of these issues? Those successes were accomplished over the last three years, where was he on border control? On Chinese intellectual property theft? NATO financing? SEATO? &c. Does Mr. Romanoff think that the faux health care issue is all that there is? As someone who has family member with problems already addressed by the Trump Administration, e.g. successfully bringing down generic drug prices, and providing pre-existing condition transfer, why is he pushing things that have already been addressed?

From reading the article, I can only conclude that Mr. Romanoff wants to turn the entire United States into California, and create a New Cuba/Venezuela in North America.

Respectfully submitted,