Support for public health insurance option

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By: Letters to the Editor | Hickory Daily Record
Published: October 02, 2009

I find it amazing that more people believe in UFOs than oppose the public health insurance option.

Seriously, it's easier to find someone who thinks aliens are landing spaceships in our cornfields than someone who thinks we shouldn't create a public option to keep the insurance companies honest.

The insurance companies are basically the only ones who don't like the public option, which is probably why their industry is spending nearly $5 million per week trying to fight off health-care reform in Congress.

We need to remind our senators, Kay Hagan and Richard Burr, that everyday Americans, not space aliens, and not profit-driven insurance executive, support the public health insurance option.

Outside of the Senate, insurance company boardrooms and Area 51, the support for the public option is overwhelming.

At least two-thirds of Americans want the choice of a public plan. Fully 73 percent of doctors, the people who see the moral and medical need up close every day, want a public option. And a majority of small-business owners, who know first-hand the economic case for health care reform, back it.

Yet the health insurance companies and some subset of people who believe they've seen flying saucers oppose it. Somehow, ridiculously, that's put the public option in danger in the Senate.

Glenn Fisher
Hickory

Voters need to take back the country

American politicians sold the United States out in the early 1990s with all the speaking fees they collected from foreign trade groups They also told the American people that we are an "information economy."

Do you suppose that Americans citizens can eat words and sentences?

The politicians teamed up with China and Mexico with a zone along the border where trade restrictions are almost eliminated.

The Chinese ship parts to Mexico, where they're assembled and shipped on trucks owned and operated by Mexican trucking companies.

Well, we were told everything would be cheaper, like TVs, etc.

It is hard to buy TVs and such if you don't have a job.

I think we need to take back this country. You can do this the next time you vote.

We, as American citizens, cannot seem to get term limits in Congress, but we can vote them out of office. Make your vote count in local, state and national elections.

Take a stand, and make your vote count.

Jean Anderson
Claremont