Health care hearings should be inclusive
While I realize there must be order in congressional hearings on health care, why are citizens silenced or not allowed a chance to speak?
Why did Sen. Baucus make jokes and everyone there think it was funny? The smug laughter I saw while watching CSPAN coverage of the hearings was insulting.
At a meeting to which the insurance boys were invited, but citizens who pay and doctors and nurses who give care and have to deal with the bureaucracy of multiple insurance company paperwork weren’t, but were arrested, shows me just who Congress seems to represent — campaign donors, not us.
Just another reason to end campaign bribes and start public campaign funding, renew the fairness doctrine and end representing the corporations over the citizens. Washington is broken and it is past time to fix that.
It’s time to put a single-payer system on the table.
Robert Peer
Yanceyville
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"While I realize there must be order in congressional hearings on health care, why are citizens silenced or not allowed a chance to speak?"
Because the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries are two of the biggest owners of politicians.
"Why did Sen. Baucus make jokes and everyone there think it was funny? The smug laughter I saw while watching CSPAN coverage of the hearings was insulting."
Because Baucus is corrupt and an imbecile with no interest whatsoever in what is in the best interests of the American people.
"Just another reason to end campaign bribes and start public campaign funding, renew the fairness doctrine and end representing the corporations over the citizens."
Bingo! And it won't happen until the fascists are routed from the Supreme Court, which has ruled that money equals speech; until that happens politicians are bought and paid for by corporations that don't give a rat's ass about America.
"It’s time to put a single-payer system on the table."
It has been on the American table for over 100 years.
Posted on May 16, 2009 8:17 PM