This letter to The Star is really funny. After extolling the virtues of a government run health care program he comes out against socialism. Just wait until he finds out who runs Medicare!
Re: Rep. Elton Gallegly's Aug. 9 commentary, "Only fix what's broken":Gallegly's commentary concerning President Barack Obama's "healthcare plan" really hit home with my wife and me. We are currently enrolled in Medicare's Advantage Plan and it is absolutely supreme, the best we could hope for. Case in point: My wife has had 13 hospitalizations and three intestinal surgeries since 2006 through July 2008 and the total cost to us has been $0! This is a fact, $0 dollars. The bills have added up to more than $1.5 million.
I cannot imagine anyone disagreeing with the forgoing statements. As Rep. Gallegly stated, there are some 24,000-plus seniors on Medicare's Advantage Plan in his 24th District. Most have probably not read his commentary, but if they did, I'm sure they would really be surprised to learn that their plan is about to be taken away from them under President Obama's proposed "plan."
I am not a "crazy" or far "right" or as stand-up and shout-out type of guy, but I know a "good deal" when I have it and I do not want to lose it. To anyone! Socialized medicine is not for Americans, ever.
-- Charles D. Richardson, Fillmore
Simi Valley Democrats are holding a panel discussion on healthcare insurance reform. Click here for details.
Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, et al would be in tears to know that so many ignorant people are allowed to vote.
These are the same sort of people who, when angry enough to riot, will burn down their own neighborhoods and homes to show how pissed off they are. Only this time they're doing it to their own nation.
GS,
Are you going to the forum the Simi Valley / Moorpark Democrats are putting together?
No. For one thing, I'm not a Dem and secondly, the angry mob of ignorant obstructionists will never listen to any argument except their own so i can't see any purpose in encouraging their media circus. Instead, I want the Dems to forget about trying to educate the uneducatable and use their majorities in Congress to ram health care reform down BigInsurance's esophagus.