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<p>What is affordable in the eyes of our government?</p><p>In the next couple weeks, state employees have to pick a new insurance for the start of the new year. The choices are to pick an insurance provider that probably will force you to change doctors &#8211; and leave you with no choice where you go to receive care &#8211; or you can pick a so-called better plan that will leave you indebted to a hospital for the rest of your life.</p><p>I understand the state has to make adjustments and save money somewhere. So, again, it will be the workers who will suffer.</p><p>The insurance exchange is raising its costs to the public more than 30 percent. If the average worker got a pay increase of 30 percent, the worker might feel he or she can afford these health-insurance increases. But I see people putting off needed tests and surgery, and not refilling needed medications, because they cannot afford their deductibles, co-insurances and co-pays.</p><p>I have nothing against people getting insurance for free if they need it. But we have a society being raised on a system of dependence.</p><p>I see people having child after child, on someone else&#8217;s dime, and their children then will be supported by the system. We need to teach people nothing is free. Someone is paying for this. We have people struggling to keep homes and paying outrageous taxes. </p><p>We have a country that is broken and divided. We need godly leaders who should be accountable. Americans are paying a heavy price for leaders who have mismanaged their tax money over the years.</p><p>Our hope should not be in the upcoming election, but in the Lord.</p><p><strong>Maure Devers</strong></p><p>Dorrance Township</p><style>
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Letter to the Editor: Health insurance and other costs heaped on the backs of some, while others benefit for ‘free’