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Readers' forum: Speak up for fair care

Majority? | 12:28 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

I don't suppose you'd be referring to the majority who support a public option, would you?

Ha Ha! Just kidding! Of course I realize a good Republican never lets reality get in their way.

Granny | 5:45 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

Gayle, your letter lacks specifics.

Yes, world is changing! | 5:54 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

Yes, it is true, the world is changing! By the end of the year, it is expected that major changes to healthcare will become law and millions of Americans now shut out of healthcare system due to greedy profits of private companies will finally get some coverage! What a great country we live in!

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Anonymous | 6:45 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

Look at other socialized health systems and massive government spending. We are going into the same toilet.

Doug G | 7:06 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

I agree. I've let them know I support a single payer system.

@majority? | 7:19 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

What a jokester. Lets all have a good time, funny laugh, Ha Ha! about the govt. takeover of our political system. How ignorant can one be? Don't tell me, you either work for the govt. or you just graduated from a fine govt. university? Brainwashed all! Caught in the stupid game of us vs. them or pubs vs dems. Reality is... things are going to be fundamentally transformed by subversive and conspiring groups that have been at it for a long time. Welcome to a new age where freedom and upward mobility through hard work are nonexistant.

Tom Poehlmann | 7:26 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

I agree. The majority of Americans support a public option. It's the only way to break the monopoly of the insurance cartel and bring some honest competition to the marketplace. Repealing the insurance industry's exemption from the monopoly laws is another step in the right direction.

wolf in sheep clothing | 7:32 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

The people are starting to realize what this health care push is all about, and it's not about health care. It's about the government taking over 1/5 of our economy and taking more control over our lives and our freedoms. I also encourage all to investigate for yourselves and contact your representatives.

Anonymous | 7:36 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

The letters saying the majority does not want change must be in reaction to Glenn Beck or Fox News or something. Come on people, think for yourselves. Just because they say it does not make it true. Fact: The MAJORITY of Americans want health care reform.

RedShirt | 8:13 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

To "Tom Poehlmann | 7:26 a.m." what monopoly is there?

There are at least 3 health insurance companis in Utah. These 3 are the only ones that the State Government has given licenses to. So, you complain about needing a government plan to compete with private insurance, yet it is the government that has created the monopolies that you hate.

Why not ask for removing the barriers that prevent competition across state lines, wouldn't that increase competition without a bloated government program? I can buy most any other type of insurance policy across state lines, why not health insurance?

Competition | 8:21 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

We just did our annual review of the car and house insurance. We saved over $700. this year buy shopping the insurance companies in a national market. We have over 1200 medical insurance companies, let us shop at them unfettered by government intervention. Some providers are leaving states where the government mandates are untenable. Allow us to have a real open competitive market. And some of us do not demonize American industries. The medical insurance companies have an average of 2% profit. Hateful hyperbole about other Americans and their industries is childish simplicity.

Anonymous | 8:38 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

"I write to plead with all those who want a fair health-care system for the good of all our country to write and call now"

So you are sticking up for the current system? The one that leaves out 40 million citizens? The one that doubles in price every couple years? That is your 'fair' system? Keep listening to the idiots at faux news because you fail at rational thought.

Grover | 9:23 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

You write to the Pubs and I will write to the Dems. Everyone needs to be in on whatever solution comes out of the debate...but there has to be a solution.

Sorry, Gayle | 10:15 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

Thanks for your courage to speak up. Sorry that the hate-mongers on the left spew so much garbage at you in response. For a group that worships "choice", they are quite willing to deny you your choice by forcing universal health care on everyone. And despite their lies to the contrary, they know that universal health care is the end-game. Britain has death panels, and Canada's system is only saved by the fact that Canadians can come across the border for health care.
Thanks again, Gayle.

re: Majority? | 12:28 a.m. | 10:18 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

I dont know what poll you are looking at - but the majority supports some form of health care reform - but clearly not the current proposals and not the public option

Ma | 12:21 p.m. Nov. 4, 2009

yeah I think everyone should make a call and ask for passive fair care.

Sterling | 2:16 p.m. Nov. 4, 2009

Gayle - I suspect all of Utahs congressional delegation will be voting AGAINST government takeover of healthcare. After the defeats suffered yesterday by the Demos. in Virginia, and New Jersey, I suspect MANY MORE "fence sitting" Demos. will have made up their minds.
There are LOTS of things that COULD/SHOULD be done to repair healthcare, but having the government take it over is NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS!
To me, the really sad part about the whole healthcare mess is that Obama was elected with such a LARGE mandate that there was REALLY a chance to make healthcare better. It wouldn't have been that BIG OF A THING to try to bring in some of the members of the opposite party, but, obviously, BOTH political parties succumbed to various outside pressures to derail positive healthcare reform! Yes, things COULD HAVE been improved, but BOTH PARTIES decided they would rather fight than accomplish!
Who knows, maybe a third party candidate will "step up to the plate" in 2012 and DEAL WITH THE ISSUE rather than fight about it!

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