Speak Up: What are your neighbors saying about health care?

Updated 8:38 AM Friday, November 20, 2009

Senior citizens beware: The House health care bill will cut $500 billion from Medicare, $170 billion from Medicare Advantage insurance and a 20 percent cut in doctor’s pay. Is this quality health care? Speak up now.

Reality check: No one dies from lack of health insurance. People die from sicknesses and accidents. Health insurance helps pay for treatment. Health care is not free.

I would like to second the emotion that the writer in the Nov. 12 paper expressed about Snowhill Elementary School. You are absolutely correct in your prediction that there will one day be an accident. I have almost been in an accident three times because parents arrive at 8:29 a.m. and hurry in the parking lot. People, if you see someone pulling away from the curb, be courteous and allow them to do so. If you are arriving late, you should not make it someone’s else’s worry or tragedy. Get up earlier, as we owe it to our children to arrive at school on time, and without the stress added from hurrying.

Since when did it become our responsibly to give whatever the school district asks for?

Thanks, Northwestern, my property taxes just went up to $660 a month for the next 28 years. Thanks for stealing my retirement from me.

Get your kids the H1N1 shot. My daughter had the flu. It is no joke.

Re the monument: The remarks made by Dave Hartley are way off-base. The item is insured. Replacing it is the only thing to do. It should not be a problem, it has been there since 1957.

To the driver who hit the Ten Commandment monument: Apparently, you have already disobeyed some of the commandments.

Why not put the Ten Commandments back? They are the cornerstone of our judicial system.

Shawnee: We have the best superintendent in the area. The people on the board are very determined not to have our children suffer.

Re the Northeastern levy: Don’t these children deserve to learn in a modern environment? We are training them for jobs that don’t exist yet.

Re Northeastern: I am 57 years old, never had children and lived in the area. I paid all these years for your children to go to school. If we want to be fair, only people with kids should pay.

If I had a condo in Florida and a Cadillac to get there, I certainly wouldn’t waste my time to come here and vote “no” on the Northeastern school levy.

To Northeastern retirees: Be sure to apply for a mail-in absentee ballot for the February school tax levy vote before you leave for the winter. The school board has purposely scheduled this vote in an attempt to avoid your votes. Show them what’s right and continue to vote “no.”

Thank you, Greenon High School, for your Veterans Day program. It will be a ceremony I always will remember. A special thanks to my daughter and grandson for inviting me.

Chinese industrial production grew at 16 percent thanks to our unpatriotic un-American shoppers.

People need to be nicer and keep an open mind about others. My father has Parkinson’s disease. He is not a drunk.

Let’s keep the sports in the sports section, not on the front page.

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Having insurance is no guarantee of quality care; however, why not give everyone the chance to see just how 'broken' the system really is. A good doctor is hard to find. No one seems to address this issue adequately. The 'greed' factor helped destroy our faith in medicine (big Pharm, Fraud, unnecessary testing, etc...)

RUserious
10:51 AM, 11/23/2009

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IF YOU ARE A SENIOR CITIZEN WHO HAS WORKED FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ALL YOUR LIFE. WAKE UP. THIS NEW HEALTH CARE BILL WILL RAISE YOUR TAXES WITH EXTRA FEES AND HIGHER PREMIUMS,LESS FOR MEDICARE. WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO TO BE HONEST PAY YOUR OWN WAY THROUGH LIFE AND THEN GIVE IT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN IT EASY ALL THEIR LIVES. SO MUCH FOR WORKING FOR A LIVING ACCORDING TO OBAMA.

ED
9:56 AM, 11/23/2009

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2010. get busy now, and call all of your elected officials in congress. Inform them that if they refuse to obey the will of the people,(no cap and trade,no national health care,no catering to terrorists,etc) than they will be voted out at the mid-term elections. Don't stop with just one phone call or one letter; be relentless, never stop, because if you do, we all will be doomed to marxist-socialist society, with little or no freedom or protection from terrorists. Ft. Hood is jsut the start.

not too late
10:54 PM, 11/22/2009

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Not to mention the cap and tax bill, that will "necessarily cause electricity rates to skyrocket" in the words of Oba-mao himself. The CBO estimates a 90% increase in electricity and at least a dollar increase in gas prices.

Hang on, it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Who will pay for the pretty new buildings when all the foreclosures hit?

TEA
10:51 PM, 11/20/2009

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Harold, just wait until you add the health care taxes all working people are going to be paying. Everything, including the kitchen sink will be taxed by this dem. run country.

Connie
10:06 PM, 11/20/2009

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