Stupid Letter of the Week

There are no stupid letters. There are stupid people who write letters. For someone looking for a blog topic, this was a gift.

Where’s the reform?

I am a progressive liberal. I decided to find out how this health care reform law would affect me. Upon phoning Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office, I asked how someone who is waiting 10 months for a disability hearing could get help at little or no cost. The response was Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, the Kansas City Free Health Clinic and the Kansas City dental college.

The exact same collection of underfunded, inadequate, wait-for-four-hours, maybe days with the dental college, if you can get in at all. This is not health care reform. This is just more of the same. The poor wait in lines that never end.

There is nowhere you can get a pair of glasses. This is nonsense. Nothing will change as long as we play by the deal-making rules of Washington. We must take to the streets and demand the same health care that our elected officials have so freely heaped upon themselves.

I am not a tea party member. I am an angry progressive.

This is not reform. Health care is a right more than being able to carry a concealed weapon as part of a well-regulated militia.

Steven Addison

Steven proves the assertion that liberals do not live in the real world. He expects free or no cost health services that "our elected officials have so freely heaped upon themselves". According to Steven, Congress must have found a free health care system. I have always thought the taxpayer paid for their care. And then he expects there would be no lines for this free care, and that eye glasses should also be offered. Maybe these free clinic should also hand out pixie dust?

He again proves his ignorance by claiming that health care is more of a right than gun ownership and a well regulated militia. I'd like to see his copy of the Constitution. But as a liberal, he doesn't deal with facts, only feelings. I am sure that Steven feels he should get free care, but he has no facts on his side.

Finally, Steven wasn't paying attention during the health care bill battle. If he did, he would have known that free health care was never on the table. In fact, wait until he learns that if he doesn't buy health care, he will be fined.