Remove profit from healthcare

To the editor:

The American Health Care Act (AHCA/Trumpcare/Ryancare) will be devastating for the country.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare) is not good, even in its present form, but people have health care/insurance. The American Health Care Act will cause many to lose their coverage.

What is important to me is that profit is taken out of health care. (The health industry being the insurance, the pharmaceutical and the medical industries.) Then it will become affordable.

I realize that this is an extreme “lefty” stance, but it is for the making of health care for all Americans. When profits are involved, cost/profits must rise or the investors will pull out their support/investments. This is what the “free market” is all about, profit. Therefore, the only way that health care can be affordable for all is to make it “universal,” which means that it must be along the lines of “Medicare-for-all.”

Treating the patient, rather than the symptom, is a practical approach. Doctors being paid for outcomes, rather than visits is sensible, as well. Stressing diet and nutrition needs to be a major part of health care, as well.

Daniel E. Chase

Portland