Oct 5, 2013 1 min read

Consider the looming effects of the Affordable Care Act. Many employers are reducing staff to part-time in order to avoid the requirement of providing employee health care coverage. Many of those forced to part-time status will join a subsidized government health care program that will mushroom on the destruction of full-time jobs and the elimination of employer health care benefits.

A requirement of the Affordable Care Act is the creation of computerized records for all patients. Comprehensive computer records provide an opportunity for identity theft, privacy invasion and unwarranted use for political purposes.

Affordable health care for those unable to pay today’s high costs is a worthy goal. The new act includes a 7-foot stack of rules, thousands of new government employees and hundreds of exemptions for politicians and politically powerful groups. Why? Would a simple voucher program for those in need be too simple for government bureaucracy?

John Holt

Washington