How people can side with insurance industry CEOs making millions in bonuses and the corrupt politicians they have paid millions to stop health care reform, is beyond me. If people would take a minute and look at how much their premiums have gone up and the deductibles they paid out and insurance companies’ claims denials the last 10 years, they might realize insurance industry is out of control.
The bonuses, bribes, tea parties and salaries of their paid conservative pundits all are paid for from premiums we all pay and add up to billions of dollars. A public option needs to be included in reform, if we want to see serious reduction in premiums. If a public option does not work out, we just vote back control to the Republicans in November and by February they will have it privatized back into the hands of their buds in the insurance industry.
This is a true showdown on who really runs our government, the majority of the American people who want reform or the influential insurance industry that monopolizes health care. It looks like our Congressman Mike Pence will be going with the money and fight for the insurance industry. It would be nice if The Herald Bulletin would let its readers know just how much Pence, Bayh, Lugar and their staff have raked in from the insurance industry.
Tim Mahaffey
Middletown
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Letter: Health care reform needs public option
Insurance industry is out of control
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
Any recovery for the middle class, in the recovery of our economy, will be led by the recovery of the union attitude in America. Nothing else.
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Letter: Lutz not representing the working class
I feel bad that Rep. Lutz (R) is sad, because Democrats at the Statehouse are representing the working class people of Indiana. While he is representing big business.
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Viewpoint:: Washington must wake up to missile threat
Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons including recent missile testing and saber rattling while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to Cold War temperatures.
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Letter: Consumer-driven economy will pay off debt
To save America some money — by acclimation of course — let’s not have a presidential election in 2012. We already have a good president who will do his best to kill all Republican bills (DOA) and, consequently, create more good-paying jobs in the $30 per hour range.
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Letter: Gingrich cashes in on political amnesia
Rasmussen says that Romney has flattened nationally. Why?
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Letter: Hiring Winkler not wise spending
As a taxpayer I want to know that my taxes are being spent wisely. Hiring Greg Winkler at a salary of $126,000 is not wise spending.
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Letter: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve. I doubt many Americans noticed its implications because they do not yet comprehend the big picture. This law, coupled with the Patriot Act, is paving the way for America’s direction toward tyranny.
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Letter: $14 trillion debt started by previous president
I’m a proud atheist who’s lucky enough to know the difference between fact and fantasy.
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Letter: Economy putting people in the gutters
We are now getting the results of putting people in the gutters. We need to take a second look at our government and its policies. It’s not working.
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
