Health care, climate, money and the president
This is in response to Kelly Madigan's recent letter.
First, the comments about whether trusting your health care needs to your doctor or to "some fool in Washington." I don't know about you, but my health care is managed by some fool in my insurance company.
That fool tells my doctor what medication he can prescribe, what procedures he can perform and what care he can render. By the way, it's one of the same insurance companies that pay off the Republican members of Congress.
Second, regarding parking your travel or boat trailer because you can't get what you need to pull it and you can't sell it; gee, I wish I could afford a travel or boat trailer. I can't because I'm paying too much for the health insurance I'm lucky enough to have (see above).
Third, the issue about mounting evidence against climate change - scientists for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say the evidence of climate change is unequivocal. But even if you don't believe that, what's wrong with conserving our natural resources, keeping our air and water clean and generally preserving the Earth for our children?
Finally, Kelly asks, "Do you like having a president who does as he likes even though he is breaking constitutional law and nobody has the guts to call him on it?" You must be referring to former President George W. Bush. Or have you forgotten a war in Iraq based on lies to the American people, warrantless wiretapping, the suspension of habeas corpus and torture?
Dale A. Zusi
Minden
Current health-care reforms not the answer
The recent op-ed piece from the Lahontan Valley News would be good reading for those in Washington who jolly well show no inclination to heed public opinion.
I am perilously close to my 86th anniversary on this planet, and never before has health care been under political attack. Yes, costs are up, but don't blame the medical practitioners who have been under attack by the Sen. Edwards branch of the legal profession, with help from gullible juries.
If this ill-advised reform becomes law, it shall soon be easier to sue a doctor than to see one. Furthermore, don't blame the insurers who conduct their business under the most strict of government oversight, and regulation (one was there for over 40 years) and premiums are the direct reflection of less experience.
Witless and thoroughly unjustified large jury verdicts are the direct cause. But the Edwards-type con artists have made the current cost of medical care the expensive adventure that it is. Now, if the public wants to thoroughly screw up matters, by all means, invite government intervention.
Our young Marxist-driven president cites 40 million uninsured within our boundaries without any breakdown or explanation of those numbers. If government wanted, for a change, to do something intelligent, it would strip Medicare from the bureaucrats and hand the process over to private companies for better management.
We do not need reform that is currently being bashed around in Washington.
Vernon Latshaw
Minden