Implementing Obamacare is not just 11 cents more for a pizza, it’s much more devious than that (“Health care reform may make restaurant profits even more slim,” Sept. 24 Times-News; “Here’s your choice: Cheaper pizza or affordable health care,” Oct. 1).
Has anyone read the thousands of pages that were passed behind locked doors? It will destroy small business, cost the average family several thousand dollars a years and basically lead to a government takes over of medicine.
It does nothing to lower the cost of healthcare, but actually makes it more expensive. Bureaucrats will tell your doctor what he or she can treat and what medicine they can use. Care will be rationed, and rationed will wait in long lines at clinics to see doctors who will be shifted around to different clinics.
You will not be able to keep your present insurance or your doctor. as Obama promised. The government will tell you whom to see. But you will get free contraceptives, thus saving $6 a month. Special interest groups will rule, not good medical policy. It will all be political.
I have yet to talk to a doctor who is looking forward to this change. I grew up with socialized medicine and hated it, and I will be retiring early at the end of this year if Obama wins re-election.
Ljerka Rukavina
Cumberland
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Writer grew up with this, wants no more to do with it
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Why have the media been silent all this time?
When I read the Cumberland Times-News Editorial this morning, Friday, May 17, entitled, “Outrageous,” I laughed like a kid at a birthday party!
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What are chances this much money will be spent on road?
I was intrigued by cost data summarized in reporter Kathy Mellott’s recent article, “Completing southern link of U.S. Route 219 said to be best use of highway funds,” which appeared in the Cumberland Times-News on Tuesday May 14 (Page 1A).
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School board should be doing better job with less money
The Allegany County Teachers Association (ACTA) board of directors recently submitted a letter to the editor asking the Allegany County commissioners to fully fund the Board of Education’s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year (“Commissioners should fund school board request,” April 29 Times-News).
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Were they really good old days? You decide
When a fellow gets old, it’s not unusual for his mind to wander back to the days of his youth. He may forget where he laid his glasses five minutes ago, yet he can remember events that took place a half a century ago. This is one of the interesting things of old age.
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Wearing the poppy tells others people that you remember
On May 25, members of Farrady Unit 24 American Legion Auxiliary, Frostburg, will once again ask the citizens of the community to remember the sacrifices our veterans have made.
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Donating your old bike will help someone who really needs it
Once again Bikes for the World is collecting used bicycles at Canal Place, May 25 from 10 a.m. to noon,
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Hosting Fresh Air Children can be a memorable experience
I got a phone call, and a little voice said, “Hi Miss Linda, I’m calling to wish you a Happy Mother’s Day.”
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Stop buying licenses; let them find the money somewhere else
A few months ago, I received two cards from the National Rifle Association. These were dealing with a legislative alert.
They asked that I should contact Sen. George Edwards and Delegate Kevin Kelly concerning the anti-gun legislation. -
Strength of gun laws is not reflected in grisly statistics
According to the FBI’s uniform crime reports, California had the highest number of gun murders in 2011 with 1,220, which makes up 68 percent of all murders in the state that year and equates to 3.25 murders per 100,000 people.
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‘Forgotten warrior’ not forgotten
The Korean War is often called “The Forgotten War.” My generation remembers the Battle for LZ X-Ray at Ia Drang, The Tet Offensive, and Khe Sahn of the Vietnam War.
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