The endorsements by the American Association of Retired Persons, the American Medical Association and the American Cancer Society sends a clear signal that most Americans want health care reform. These organizations represent no less than 4,640,000 American voters.
The AARP can hardly be called a liberal left wing group. It has 2.4 million members who are all over the age of 50. These people can be counted on to show up at the polls on Election Day.
The AMA has 240,000 members, the great majority of whom are doctors. If this august organization of health care professionals support this reform, doesn’t it make sense that our representatives should too?
The American Cancer Society has over 2 million members who represent the largest single group of Americans affected by our currently broken health care payment system and it also supports health care reform. Can our legislators ignore this vast constituency? Not if they want to continue to represent us.
Senators and representatives who ignore this support by the nation’s foremost advocates for senior citizens and members of the medical profession do so at their own political peril.
Americans deserve universal health care, something most progressive countries of the world already enjoy. Let’s let our legislators know this with letters and phone calls.
Jeff Brailey
Chesterfield
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Letter: Groups’ endorsements send a message
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
As taxpayers, does the public have no say-so what happens with their tax dollars? With some proper schedule management, those existing meeting rooms can fulfill everyone’s needs.
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
Columnist Maureen Hayden asked, “Why did 3 million Hoosiers choose not to vote?” She gave a few reasons but I can think of another one.
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Letter: Elected officials should buy insurance
I may be wrong but I thought the city and county were hurting for money, and that’s why services keep getting cut or eliminated. One thing is evident. There is no shortage of money for lawsuits.
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
The truth of the collapse of a living-wage economy for working-class America is a social catastrophe and, increasingly, a severe embarrassment to free-market ideology.
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
On May 14 I attended the county council meeting in hopes that I could understand what is happening in the legislative branch of our Madison County government. What I saw was politics at its worst and I cannot applaud either party.
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
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Letter: Government officials should answer to us
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Viewpoint: Schools, volunteers reach out to pre-kindergartners, parents
On behalf of Born Learning Connection as service of the United Way of Madison County, I would like to thank all Madison County elementary schools for their generous support in making Blast Off to Kindergarten a countywide success.
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
