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The Helena Independent Record
2/06/06
Letters to the Editor: Address Health Care
On Tuesday night, President Bush, during his State of the Union speech, only briefly discussed one of the most serious domestic issues, America’s health care crisis.
There are more than 45 million uninsured Americans with more than one million more losing their coverage every year.
Many more than that, they lose hope.
With poverty on the rise, and health insurance on the decline, the president’s brief mention and vision of health care ingnores the real needs of people without coverage and the rest of us who are paying more and more for it.
Health care should be a right for all Americans, not a privilege.
While health care cost rise, the president continues to propose cuts to key health programs like Medicaid and Medicare.
The only policy mentioned by the president, Health Savings Accounts, another idea borrowed from insurance companies, only reduces costs for those healthy and wealthy and does not address the issues of access, quality or coverage.
We taxpayers, who provide the president his health care, believe he owes the American people a solution, one that provides all Americans accessable, affordable and quality health care today.
Ed Thomson
419 Fountain Ct.
This letter to the editor can be found on the paper's website HERE.
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