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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Health care:
Stay on topic
Sometimes we wonder how anything ever gets accomplished
on Capitol Hill. As Congress is now back in
session after an August recess, our representatives presumably went home, where they were open to our opinions on, among other things, health-care reform.
The issue is complex and we don't pretend to have all of the answers. We do, however, have a request of not only our legislators, but of the media and, perhaps more to the point, our fellow citizens. The request is simple: Stay on topic.
Every day, it seems, the airwaves and newspapers are filled with extreme interests on both sides of the argument who are relentless in pursuing their own agendas, despite the fact that most of the time those agendas do not address the needs and concerns of the vast majority of us.
The wray we see it, there is little argument that things need to change in our health-care system. Too many people are falling through the cracks, unable to afford quality care to stay healthy or get well.
In recent weeks, we encountered a pair of local men who, through job loss, lost health insurance. For these men, and countless others, trips to the doctor are avoided or canceled altogether because they simply cannot afford the out of control costs.
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