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We don’t want crippling health care
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Mar. 4, 2010 11:01 pm
The writer of the Feb. 27 letter titled “President can't enforce his will on the people” said that the American people have spoken on health care reform and “they don't want it.”
I disagree. Here's what people don't want: They don't want to go bankrupt if they get sick. They don't want to have coverage denied for pre-existing conditions. They don't want to lose their health insurance if they lose their jobs. They don't want to pay premiums that rise 36 percent a year.
Republicans may defeat health care reform and win at the polls with their deceptions. In the final analysis it is the American people, who have been deceived, who will suffer.
Adrian Whitman
West Branch
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