Why did Senator Mitch McConnell have a secret meeting about our health care? Our own Sen. Rob Portman was one of the 13 all male, all Republican secret panelists were in attendance, and yet this same Republican Party keeps saying that the Democrats will not work with them. Our concerns is that Portman will be a key decision-maker when the Senate finally votes. He as expressed his concern for the victims of opiod addiction and those children, disabled, and seniors reliant of Medicaid to meet their health needs, and yet he is meeting on legislation that is suppose to be a people's bill. Come 2018 let us vote all those who have so little regard for you and "government of, by and for the people."

We need to stop this back door politics with secret meetings just like the one for gerrymandering. In 2011, the congressional maps were created by consultants in a hotel room they called the "bunker." This process should be transparent and accountable to the public. Congressional districts should be drawn by a bipartisan redistricting commission, rather than by state legislators of one political party. Trump No. 45 was not elected by the people, and all we have is a 45 who spends most of his time tweeting and insulting the media and showing violence in the process.

Joann Schiavone,

Walbridge