Our current health care system works better for insurance companies than it does for the American people. Tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance, living one accident or illness away from total financial disaster. Hundreds of millions of Americans who have insurance live with the constant worry that they might lose it if they move, change jobs, lose their jobs or that their insurance company might cancel their plan when they get sick.
President Obama’s plan will hold the insurance industry accountable. Under the president’s plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to deny coverage based on a preexisting condition, drop or weaken coverage when you get sick, or cap the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime.
For those older Americans who feel they don’t want a government-run program, try this:
1. Confirm what organization runs the Social Security Administration.
2. Medicare: A program under the federal government (Social Security Administration) that provides medical care for the elderly.
3. Medicaid: A program jointly funded by the states and the federal government that provides medical aid to people unable to finance their own medical expenses.
Eddie Simon
Ellerslie
Ridiculous
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama is arguably one of the most absurd awards that the Nobel committee has ever made. Highly patronizing, it will be received with incredulity around the world. In fact there’s rarely been an award that has been so obviously partisan and political in its intention.
The award is apparently an encouragement to America’s first black president and a way of saying we hope that there is going to be a new direction in Washington’s policy. However, all of this undermines the point of a Nobel Peace prize.
Obama has only been in office since the beginning of the year and while his foreign peace aims are noble, his achievements are rather few. He’s done nothing in the Middle East and nothing to improve relations with the Russians.
In his own homeland he has actually undermined peace by becoming the most pro-abortion President ever to be elected.
To award a prize simply on hope suggests a naivety and a blindness that I think will only damage the value of the prize and diminish its value to all its previous winners.
Tom Richardson
Columbus
Family business
Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Vance Smith, while in the Georgia House, authored legislation that would allow MARTA and the Atlanta area to receive 25 percent of gasoline taxes. Legislator Smith garnered support to become Commissioner Smith by succumbing to the wishes of the Atlanta power brokers.
One of Commissioner Smith’s sons works for a company that must get permits from the Department of Transportation. Another of Commissioner Smith’s sons is seeking the legislative seat once held by Commissioner Smith. It must be his by inheritance.
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