Re: “Audit slams lax policy,” Dec. 9 news story.
I was intrigued by the front-page article in last Tuesday’s Denver Post discussing the waste and corruption in the Colorado health insurance exchange — not because there was waste and corruption, but that it made front-page news.
After years of reports of the waste and corruption in Medicare and Medicaid, it should be expected that a government-run program of this type would suffer it.
We would be much better off with a system where we as individuals get our own health insurance, filing a certificate of insurance with our IRS report and receiving a tax credit, scaled to income. It would cost the taxpayers no more than the present subsidized system, where employer-provided insurance subsidizes the wealthy more than the low-income people, and the free market would probably bring down costs and provide an incentive to everyone to get insurance coverage.
Richard Postma, Littleton
This letter was published in the Dec. 15 edition.
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