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11.05.2009 5:45 pm

Focus on cost controls, not a government option

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There is no question our health care system needs an overhaul.

Health insurance costs way too much and the cost keeps going up year after year. So when President Obama said reducing health care costs was a top priority, I was…

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11.05.2009 5:44 pm

Why are we still debating health care?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Why are we still debating reform, especially with the public option? Why can’t people realize 2 FACTS? 1) Private insurance carriers can only insure about 50% of all Americans. The proof is in Fact 2) Over 40% of us are…

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11.04.2009 4:29 pm

With a public option, the playing field is not level or fair

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Various commentators and politicians allege that a public option would enhance greater competition with private insurers in the health care arena. However I am still waiting for someone to explain exactly how a government administered and funded plan would accomplish…

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11.03.2009 5:38 pm

Take every reasonable step to prevent spreading flu virus

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If a substantial number of Americans deem the vaccine to be unsafe and therefore refuse to be vaccinated, there should be a good supply for the rest of us. It will be the ill informed adults making the decision for…

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11.03.2009 5:36 pm

Folks debating health care reform are ignoring simple economics

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sadly, many people in the health care debate are ignoring simple ecomonics and common sense in favor of talking points of the right wing and insurance industry coalition. The fact of the matter is that neither the current government system,…
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11.02.2009 6:15 pm

Let the for-profit, free-market model work for industry (but not health care)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Capitalism, the free market economy has brought jobs and prosperity to America in the past and will in the future. Smaller efficient government, adequately regulating business to prevent excesses will put us on a track to a healthy economy But…

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10.28.2009 6:21 pm

Reasons we need a public option

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Now that the thugs from the organized mobs against healthcare reform have left the town hall meetings and the private sector healthcare insurance companies greed for profits before people has been exposed, it’s finally time to pass a healthcare reform…

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10.20.2009 2:47 pm

Cunningham distorts the truth to advance agenda

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I could understand State Sen. Jan Cunningham’s (R-Chesterfield) Letter to the Editor on October 17, 2009 in a clearer context when I looked up the demographics of Chesterfield and read that a 2007 estimate of the median income for a…

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10.19.2009 4:48 pm

Please don’t fiddle with my Medicare

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    As a retired, senior citizen, I can only hope and pray that any health care reform bill passed by Congress will affect neither my Medicare insurance benefits, nor my Medicare supplemental policy. As one living on a fixed income, who depends upon Medicare and AARP to fully…
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10.19.2009 4:47 pm

Will legislators vote to keep the statyus quo?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Soon fur will be flying in the U.S. Senate and House as congressmen debate the pros and cons of newly melded heath insurance legislation. While legislators supposedly work toward developing a “standardized health insurance system,” insurance company lobbyist will be…

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