HEALTH CARE: We must pursue Medicare for All

The familiar mantra “Our Health Care Industry is Broken” is off target. We Americans want and expect health insurance companies to put their insureds first, to endeavor to fully meet the medical needs of their customers. Problem is, most health insurance companies are formed as for-profit corporations. Under their structure and laws which govern them their responsibility and allegiance are not to their insureds but to their shareholders. Which means they’re obligated to do whatever it takes to maximize profits, thereby maximizing benefits to their shareholders.  

Instead of trying to make for-profit businesses operate as nonprofits we as a country, through our elected representatives, HAVE to go at it through some iteration of Medicare for All.

JUDITH HORTON

Coeur d’Alene