LETTERS

AZwannabe says...

Dennis Braddy's letter to the editor was massacred. Here's his original:

Dear Anonymous(s),

Your replies to my letter on health insurance reform each arrived one day after the postmark. Not bad for a “government-run” bureaucracy your letters panned. And for about 40 cents!

Unfortunately, you are woefully misinformed. President Obama did not suggest “counseling instead of treatment” for seniors. Optional counseling about living wills and such was removed from Senate proposals when Republicans, some of whom previously supported such proposals, demagogued it to death. No proposal calls for “death panels” deciding when to pull the plug on grandma, as health insurers effectively do now. All public option proposals require costs be paid from subscriber premiums - no unfair government subsidy, no “government takeover.” Just real competition that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says will save us billions of dollars every year. That’s why health insurance companies are spending millions to fight it.

Hospitals are required by law to render emergency care to all, regardless of immigration or insurance status. (No bleeding bodies dumped in alleys.) That won’t change. However, all current health reform proposals specifically exclude illegal aliens. “Illegals” will continue getting expensive emergency room care and the cost added to your bill. Clever.

You are among those I hoped to reach with my previous letter, people misled by Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Republicans, and insurance companies. Unlike your opinion-filled, fact-deficient responses, every statement in my letters is verifiably true. If you prefer truth over propaganda, check my facts yourself. Please.

Sincerely,

Dennis Braddy

November 11, 2009 at 10:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )