The vice chair of the Livingston County Democrats has been writing letters to the editor again, and this time the Livingston Press and Argus decided to publish it.
Donna Anderson has a great letter in the newspaper today (Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007) on universal health care.
Anderson's letter is in response to a previous writer, who cherry-picked a few statistics about Italy's health care to claim that national health care would be a mistake for the U.S.
Anderson refutes all the writer's points with some well-researched statements, and then closes with:
"It doesn't make sense to have our health care rely on for-profit insurance companies. We need to set up a system where the right to health care is respected for everyone and everyone gets health care. Other industrialized countries have done this for the last 50 years with success.
"It's time the United States puts away the bugaboos and fears of the past about 'socialized medicine' and moves to a single-payer universal health-care plan such as HR 676 in the House of Representatives."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
BTW, a shout-out to Livingston County Chair Matt Evans for his cogent comments in yesterday's Press & Argus about Gen. David Petraeus' testimony on Iraq war "progress."
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