Health Care
To the Editor:
MOUNT VERNON – I am writing this letter to share why I support Joe Biden’s plan for health care. He believes that every American has the right to affordable, quality health care.
Currently, the Trump Administration is trying to get the entire Affordable Care Act struck down. The challenge will be heard by the Supreme Court in mid-November. The Affordable Care Act provides exchanges for people to obtain quality health care coverage and provides for the expansion of Medicaid. Many of its popular provisions would be affected if it were struck down, such as protecting people with preexisting conditions, no lifetime limits on coverage and allowing young adults to stay covered on their parents’ plan until age 26.
Joe Biden will preserve the progress made by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and build on it. He will give all Americans a new choice to purchase a public health insurance option like Medicare. If you do not like the coverage from your employer or are between jobs or haven’t had insurance coverage, you will now have the option to buy public health insurance. Note that no one will be forced into a government plan.
The plan will reduce the cost of health care for individuals in the following ways:
1) The public option, like Medicare, will negotiate prices with providers, creating a more affordable option.
2) Medicaid would continue to be supported.
3) Middle-class families will get a premium tax credit to help them pay for coverage.
4) Medicare will be able to negotiate with drug corporations to decrease the cost of medicines.
The Biden plan will help pay for this by getting rid of capital gains tax loopholes for the super wealthy. There are many more details to Joe Biden’s health care plan at www.joebiden.com/healthcare.
Patricia Keane
Mount Vernon
Knox County Republicans
To the Editor:
HOWARD – All the elected and appointed public officials in Knox County are Republicans. So establishing blame for disconnecting essential water to 200 households falls exclusively in the lap of Republicans. Those indignant Republicans felt pride and superiority as they created an insurmountable hardship for veterans, pregnant women, children, the disabled, drug addicted, MRDD and working taxpayers trying to stay alive in the middle of a global pandemic. Not unlike those corrupt, rotten, dirty Republicans at the state house, they are paid to represent all the citizens of Knox County, not just Republicans with fat wallets.
Millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled into Knox County to help the people. Republicans don't see the money as a taxpayer-funded lifeline for the citizenry. They instead see millions to shore-up oligarchy melarky. Heinous windfalls of million$ have established Republican power and control over local politics for generations. It is impossible to comprehend the life-changing impact huge, never-have-to-pay-back-welfare-checks have on communities. They widen the gap between the haves and the have nots.
Voters know that heavily subsidized farmers have raked in nearly $40 billion dollars nationwide this year alone. Weary parents should never again pay for a school lunch. Cruel farmers intentionally dumped milk, plowed under crops and euthanized thousands of chickens, hogs and beef for spite. The money fascist Trump coughed up, after obliterating trade, was astounding and vote-securing. Many Republicans attached like an umbilical cord to their millions stashed in the Knox County Foundation slush fund should get a conscience. Where is the $1.4 billion the pro-life Catholic Church got? Could our very own subsidized oligarchs park that private jet and throw some cash at the water bills to help a taxpayer? Don't give millions more to the fascist Trump. Could taxpayers squeeze some dead presidents out of that $20 million downtown theatre? Amen.
Sharon Elliott
Howard
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