To the editor:

Thanks to President Obama and the Democrats in Congress for giving us the Affordable Care Act. Now quality health care is guaranteed for all Americans!

We all get to keep our doctors and have access to the hospital of our choice and our insurance is cheaper. The health care industry is thriving, investment in new technologies is increasing and medical breakthroughs are accelerating. Hope and change has worked.

Not!

A command-and-control economy never ever works. Expect long lines for diminished care from stressed-out doctors you don’t know and hospitals you don’t want to go to.

The only chance to make your voice heard here in Kitsap County this year to reverse the government takeover of the health care industry is the race between Derek Kilmer vs. Marty McClendon. Vote McClendon.

THOMAS R. GREENE

Bainbridge Island