President Donald Trump has always despised health care created by President Barack Obama, and things added by President Joe Biden, to help the American people. Trump is telling Republicans in Congress to destroy American health care.

Over 500,000 Pennsylvanians get their health care from the Pennie program. Every state has similar programs. There are tens of millions of Americans in these affordable programs.

Many will not be able to afford a good health care program, or not be able to have any at all.

Republicans say they will discuss health care if the Democrats vote to reopen the government. This is an outright lie. Trump will never allow this.

Trump and the Republicans want to take the American people back to the good old days. Where you can pay a company for health insurance for 20 years. Get a life threatening illness, then get a letter from your company canceling your health insurance.

This is what the Democrats are keeping the government shut for. They want to keep Trump and the Republicans from taking affordable health care away from Americans.

America is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have national health care. Because insurance and pharmaceutical companies don’t want it.

When are Trump and the Republicans going to go after those on welfare and SSI who have better health care than many hard-working Americans?

You know when that will happen? Never.

Dennis C. Shore

Altoona