My congressman, Blake “let them eat cake” Moore, must think that health care is a privilege not everyone deserves. About 26,000 or so of his constituents are soon to lose health coverage, mostly Medicaid, under the Big Beastly Bill he supports. No cake for them.

You’d think that a concerned congressman would want to protect the health of his constituents and maybe even make a big deal of it, especially since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Screening early for breast cancer and acting quickly are essential and shouldn’t just be for the privileged. But no, the congressman seems to be OK with denying health care to those 26,000 constituents. So much so that he helped shut down the government, the one run by his own party.

Strangely, congressional Democrats want to preserve health coverage for all of his constituents but he somehow doesn’t. Odd.

He’s still getting paid during the shutdown, by the way. To do what, I’m not quite sure. Maybe attend a Breast Cancer Awareness event as a sign of goodwill?

Patrick de Freitas, Salt Lake City

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