In order to keep health care insurance premiums down, all working people and their employers should be required to pay. It’s nothing but a shell game to create a taxpayer-funded high-risk pool for the chronically ill as proposed in LD 912.

We all need health insurance which includes the young and sick. I know the insurance companies would love to pick and choose who they cover and let the taxpayers take over the bulk of the risk. Let’s even out the playing field and have the same insurance rules for everyone.

Russell Cookingham

Washington