No support for Reid’s ACA support

By George Pucine, Las Vegas

Friday, April 10, 2015 | 2 a.m.

In due deference to your editorial in the March 29 edition of the Sun (“Thank you, Harry”), I’d like to offer a different viewpoint of Harry Reid:

I just received an email message from the office of Sen. Harry Reid in which he extols the virtues of the Affordable Care Act. Among the posits he includes in his memo, he states: “I am just as proud of the work as I was the day President (Barack) Obama signed the ACA into law.” “Just consider all of the good things Obamacare is doing for the country.” “Americans are benefiting from increased health coverage, lower costs and improved efficiency.”

Well, my response to Harry’s memo is this: Thanks to you and your Democratic friends, I have been advised I am now losing the great health care insurance I have had covering my wife and I for the past 19 years. Not only that, but I have also been advised I may lose my primary doctor — he’s been my physician for 18 years — and also every doctor that I have seen for other health problems. Further, I have been advised I may lose my great prescription coverage I enjoy.

You perpetrated a travesty upon this country five years ago that more retirees like myself will find hard to swallow. And your friend in the White House bald-faced lied five years ago when he said, “If you like your insurance you can keep it; if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.” All of it proving to be hogwash, like your memo I received. The Democrats fostered a great disservice to me, Harry, and I blame you and the deals you made to get this travesty passed.

So don’t expect me to laud you or say thank you or even offer to shake your hand.