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Commented Oct 18, 2009 on Health reform questions at Unfettered Letters
Health reform questions
There are three questions regarding a new health care bill that are never really answered. How would there not be longer waiting lines when approximately 30 million to 40 million additional people are added? If half a trillion dollars are cut from Medicare, how can that not affect the quality...
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Commented Oct 17, 2009 on Bishops’ stance on health reform at Unfettered Letters
Bishops’ stance on health reform
Thanks to Albert de Zutter for his thoughtful analysis of our Kansas City-area Catholic bishops’ opposition to Obama’s health care reform (10/5, Opinion, “As I See It”). The bishops’ arguments were so weak, it was easy to infer that they oppose health care reform because it is coming from a Dem...
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Commented Sep 4, 2009 on Moore’s column on health care reform at Unfettered Letters
Moore’s column on health care reform
I try to adhere to a general rule: Offer solutions or, at least, ideas that propel problem solving. Don’t just bemoan the current state of affairs. So it’s horrifying to hear the current pitch of the health care “debate.” Worse than arriving at a position (however extreme) though, is to waste on...
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Commented Aug 18, 2009 on Health reform a scapegoat? at Unfettered Letters
Health reform a scapegoat?
Barbara Shelly’s column “Reality in short supply in debate on health care” (8/14, Opinion) suggested that the health care discussion has “entered a murky terrain of scenarios constructed out of fears and wild conspiracy theories.” Shelly is not the first to observe that health care has become a ...
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Commented Jul 16, 2009 on Care vs. insurance at Unfettered Letters
Care vs. insurance
The Star’s editorial “Access for all to affordable health care” (7/12, Opinion) says, “All Americans must have affordable health insurance.” The problem is access to health care. Why not substitute “care” for “insurance?” Insurance companies are the problem for middle-class Americans. We pay tho...
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Commented Jun 16, 2009 on Health-care reform at Unfettered Letters
Health-care reform
Clearly our local Republican leaders are committed to improving our country’s health care (6/11, Opinion. “As I See It: GOP health-care options sound”), yet I didn’t see anything in their proposed suggestions that would reform the high pay, for-profit system only a portion of our citizens curren...
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Commented Jun 8, 2009 on U.S. needs single-payer health care at Unfettered Letters
U.S. needs single-payer health care
I would replace the current state of private, employer-based coverage and state regulation with a single-payer system funded by employer contributions, employee contributions, patient co-payments and federal payments that would operate under one integrated set of federal regulation. This new sys...
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Commented Jun 8, 2009 on Obama keeps moving to the right at Unfettered Letters
Obama keeps moving to the right
How much more will it take before the progressives and civil libertarians wake up and realize that they have been duped by Barack Obama? In the last month alone we have watched silently as President Obama has goose-stepped his way to the right. Consider his un-American policies on indefinite de...
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Commented May 29, 2009 on Health industry’s hold on Congress at Unfettered Letters
Health industry’s hold on Congress
I’m completely sympathetic to John Preudhomme’s dismay (5/24, Letters) at the absence of a single-payer health-care bill before the Senate Finance Committee. But I think the reason is something other than “a lack of vision and faith in Americans’ adjustability.” I think the committee chairman kn...
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Commented May 24, 2009 on Half a cure for health care at Unfettered Letters
Half a cure for health care
In a disconcerting lack of faith toward our automobile industry’s ability to rise to a challenge, our elected officials failed to impose higher fuel economy standards a decade ago. The same lack of vision and faith in Americans’ adjustability and responsiveness deters Senate Finance Committee c...
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