Letters to the Editor 8/21

Lawmakers must be included in health plans

Fellow voters and citizens, I am writing to implore you to contact your congressional representatives and demand that they participate in whatever health reform package that they implement.

I think it is a fundamental flaw that our elected officials can pass legislation and make mandatory a health plan in which they do not have to participate for some undisclosed reason. Please let them know what the consequence would be for such action. I, for one, will not vote for any incumbent who thinks he is exempt from this legislation.

Jerry Massad

Carson City

Universal quality care the right thing to do

The party of NO has been reactivated. With the history of being against Social Security, civil rights, Medicare and the stimulus package, they are back.

Now it's health care reform. The town hall people should forego town halls and go to study halls. They don't want to discuss health care, they "want their country back"? They must like the way things are.

Palin claims that Obama's health care plan will create "death panels" that would encourage euthanasia, Glenn Beck says on national TV that the president is a racist and good old Rush compares the health plan to Nazism. Please. Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything on their way to crazyland.

No one would say that the U.S. health care system, which is failing more than 50 million people completely, is the leading cause of bankruptcy that is making U.S. companies non-competitive, and that sucks up more than 17 percent of the Gross Domestic Product while producing life expectancy and infant mortality figures that make some Third World countries look good.

The United States spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care. Fifty million are without health coverage and millions more are inadequately covered. This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payments would save more than $400 billion per year.

Support universal high-quality care because it's the right thing to do for all Americans.

Jerry Denis Sullivan

Minden

Government on way to complete control

Poor old Harry does it again. He has referred to people that disagree with the so-called health care plan as evil mongers.

At one time, Harry was a good senator from Nevada, but is now a pawn for the Obama administration. He does not think for himself, he just follows orders.

Of course he wants to continue to be majority leader and is afraid to speak out or have ideas of his own.

He has joined Nancy Pelosi in trying to make all who disagree with the idea of the government running our health care as complete idiots.

Well, Harry, since you are afraid to hold town hall meetings maybe we can send you back to Searchlight, Nev.

Folks wake up, or the government will control your life completely.

Bill Beil

Carson City