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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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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It’s good to be the queens
One of the many nuggets of knowledge that Crash Davis tried to bestow upon Nuke LaLoosh in the movie Bull Durham was that ‘strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they’re fascist.’
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Harper just needs to stop scoring the wall
• Happy birthday, Brooks Robinson. No. 5 will be 76 tomorrow.
Remember, in the words of Gordon Beard, “Brooks Robinson never asked anybody to name a candy bar after him. In Baltimore people name their children after him.” -
Organization needed to help utilize the Potomac River
I am a committee remember on the Tamiami Trail Scenic Highway which stretches from Palmetto to Venice, Fla.
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Reducing meat consumption can help ease climate change
A review of 12,000 papers on climate change, in the May 15 issue of “Environmental Research Letters,” found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities.
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Maryland has stopped being “The Free State”
I am a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and, last but not least, the National Rifle Association. I am a yearly member of the American Legion.
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Outrageous
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
This amounts to spying on an American news organization — common practice in dictatorships but scary conduct in a democratic system that prizes the public value of an independent watchdog press. -
Save the Bridge Program
Please do not close the Frostburg United Methodist Church Bridge Program. The community and many families need this program. Let me enlighten you about a few things.
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