Latino families must not be overlooked
Re: “As White House predicts swift passage of health bill, Congress bogs down,” Sept. 25
It’s important that Latino families are not left out as Congress deliberates over health care reform. Current proposals in the Senate Finance Committee include measures that prevent legal residents from accessing affordable coverage, add excessive verification systems for acquiring health care, and keep Americans from getting the care they need.
Hispanics already lag behind. One in three Hispanics does not have health insurance, compared with one in ten whites. Undocumented immigrants only account for about 37 percent of uninsured Latinos, so the rest are citizens and legal immigrants.
As a public health professional, I am disappointed about the way Latinos and immigrants are being treated. We need improved access to health care for families and workers, not excessive verification or restrictions that only place more bureaucrats and red tape between patients and their doctors.
Juliana Morris
Washington
Channel your Tea Party anger at the ballot box
Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt, our faith in God, self-reliance, family and the power of local private institutions has been weakening in favor of faith in the god of all-providing government.
Socialism has increased rapidly since the 1960s, along with the social disorder it causes. The higher taxes needed to pay for it were masked for a long time by improvements in productivity. But there are limits. Our culture and economy are collapsing faster than technological gains.
Rather than urge Americans to return to smaller government, Democrats push for even more government programs, higher taxes and job-killing regulations that have put half of our young out of work and threaten to destroy the economy.
By forcing a government takeover of health care, President Obama could be indeed God’s gift to us, but only if we wake up and throw all of the socialist rascals out of office. It’s time to take back our health care, our automobile industry, education and our children.
Pray that Tea Party anger will grow into a strong enough national movement to force the restoration of our Constitution and our liberty!
Michael H. Smith
Chase City, Va.
Throw all incumbents out of office
Polls say only 14 percent of Americans think that Congress is doing a good job.
I suggest that people forget whether their representatives are Democrats or Republicans, and simply vote against the incumbent. If we wipe the slate clean, at least there’s a chance that the new Congress will be better than this one. Otherwise we will have four more years of the same.
I have no ax to grind, except I am trying to save our country. Either we get rid of this do-nothing Congress now, or we are facing ruin.
Wendel Allen
Alexandria
Correction: Monday’s Examiner editorial should have identified Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The Examiner regrets the error.
