Our modern-day, right-wing extremist dominated Republican Party has spent the better part of the last decade making countless efforts to take health care away from the neediest and most vulnerable parts of society.

Treating Health Care as a privilege of the rich rather than a right. Just another incentive for the poor to pull themselves up by the bootstraps out of welfare and dependence on entitlement programs. Except for the integrity of a single dying senator, what little progress we had made would have been gone with the abolishment of Obamacare.

Nonetheless, the consequences of our health care system weakened from relentless attack, and the lack of universal coverage and things like mandatory paid sick leave, will soon be coming back to bite us if a worldwide pandemic reaches the USA.

People without coverage or sick leave will be left out spreading the disease among the rest making things worse. In a modern pandemic, the majority of deaths will not come from the disease but from the breakdown of our interdependent society that relies on farmers, truckers, etc., service providers for our every need, that we cannot do without.

The results of the last general election two years ago, shows that the majority of Americans have come to realize that health care is our first and over riding priority.

If we are dead, what good is an artificially inflated stock market fueled by unsustainable low interest rates and trillion dollar deficits stretching more than a decade into the future that our children will be stuck paying the bill for?

Come election time, vote for your health, not your wallet.

Louis R Urciuolo, Lower Paxton Twp.

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