Letter: Don’t believe rep.’s statements

Published 8:41 pm Thursday, June 28, 2018

So the state crusader against MNsure health insurance is on the side of not gutting the safety net. What a hoot. Matt Dean, we are not chuckleheads. 

Prior to the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare/MNsure, the system was rigged against the uninsured. Dean wants us to return to the times when private insurance could deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Dean is part of the system that protects the already very protected 1 percent, 

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Dean is trying, with what I believe are his layers of lies about MNsure, to distract us from the precise ways that his ilk previously rigged our health system against the unprotected uninsured. 

Dean’s crusade does not have a moral or ethical base.  It is just plain evil to send us back to the dark ages where a breast cancer patient cannot get health care because of her pre-existing breast cancer.

We are not believing one word you write, Mr. Dean.  That is because you have protection of the very protected 1 percent quite visible all over your fake smile.

Ted Hinnenkamp

Albert Lea