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Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com Right now, the government is shut down as lawmakers argue over how to lower health care costs. But here in Maine, that fight plays out every day — in doctors’ offices, pharmacies, and hospital billing departments — because of the high prices patients face. Hospitals keep raising prices while claiming to care about affordability. It feels like the focus is on profits, not the people who depend on them for care. Every year, health care gets more expensive and more confusing, while ordinary Mainers pay the price. It’s time for lawmakers — in Washington and Augusta — to take on the hospital industry and finally put patients, not profits, first. Paul Mills Houlton
