Support health care reform

To All Georgians:

I am writing to ask you to support health care reform today. Our system leaves millions of Americans vulnerable to illness and suffering because they cannot get health coverage, either due to "pre-existing conditions" (a disgraceful tactic used by unscrupulous insurance companies), or because they cannot afford the escalating premiums demanded by insurers. All together, 46 million Americans lack health insurance. As a result, 60 Americans die every day.

I have two sisters who are being ill-served under this health care system that many of our Republican legislators call "the best in the world." One of them cannot get insurance for her rheumatoid arthritis because, in changing jobs, her condition was labeled a preexisting condition. The other, who suffered depression during a pregnancy and sought treatment, later saw her premiums go through the roof because the insurance companies subsequently considered her a risk. Predicaments like theirs are the reason that 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States are medical bankruptcies. America’s insurance companies are typical of the kinds of corporations that the Republican Party likes to laud. To me, they are unethical and un-American. Just look at how they treated hurricane victims in Florida: They took many homeowners’’ premiums for years, but refused to pay out when some of these hurricane victims needed them most. These “insurers” are greedy, callous, and altogether deserving of the pariah status with which more and more Americans regard them.

By the way, our medical system wastes $460 billion per year in administrative costs. That could fund half of the public option that is being discussed currently. Please rethink this issue. Think of how you would feel if some of your relatives were as vulnerable as many of mine are. And then stand with the millions of Americans who desire reform.

Matthew Richard

Naylor

It’s time to become involved

Bailouts; fast-tracking costly legislation through Congress; legislation which would infringe on our guaranteed rights and paint a bleak picture for our children and grandchildren; the federal government existing on borrowed money as of the end of April.

When will we have enough and become intimately involved? Washington, D.C., is practicing “fractional banking,” where our bank (Federal Reserve) has only a fraction of the assets to back up the credit (bailouts) and paper money which it has issued. Paraphrasing a statement by Thomas Jefferson, ‘if we allow our national bank to control the issuance of currency by inducing inflation followed by deflation, then the banks and corporations will deprive the people of all property until their children will be homeless in the same country that their fathers occupied. The issuing power of money should be returned to Congress and the people.’

We, the people, will only see governments returned to constitutional principles, if we become involved from the municipalities to the federal level.

TN912P is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots movement whose principles are to educate leaders and members on how the influences on the Framers and their thought processes led them to developing the U.S. Constitution.