Lawmakers should read health legislation

As of Aug. 8, only 106 of our members of Congress had formally agreed to read the health care reform legislation requested of them. Only two members of our Iowa delegation have, ethically and responsibly, committed to such a basic premise of their job description. None of our three Eastern Iowa House of Representative members are listed (www.let

freedomringusa.com). Neither of our two senators' names is there.

What am I missing here about the people we've sent to Washington? They can't agree to read the legislation that may be so important to my life and that of my grandchildren? I realize, according to the news, I'm a non-important 74-year-old who will be potentially expendable if I need serious/expensive life-preserving treatment decisioned out to bureaucrats. I'm understandably bothered. I want to go when God says it's time after our medical professionals say they've done all they can.

I'm a registered independent who believes our political system is very broken and that we've been seriously let down. A simple avoidance of a simple “pledge to read” dictates mounting problems from the insides of our central government.

Unless the same health care system they (federal employees) receive is basic to consideration, get out of my remaining life. Anything less and let's fire them ASAP.

Dean M. Johnson

Belle Plaine