Health Care Opinions: Spokesman-Review Letter to the Editor by Pete Scobby

Rod Foss blames liberals for every socioeconomic problem we face while his side takes billions in bailouts after gambling away our hard earned retirement investments. Well, I am a liberal and your conservatives stole my retirement funds with de-regulation of the financial industry. Foss would operate a conservative vending machine that takes an ounce of chocolate out of a candy bar and makes the packaging bigger. His view represents the notion that wealth is gained from legally swindling money from others. You put your money in their vending machine, and worthless derivatives fall down the chute. Plus Foss doesn’t want to pay taxes and expects millions in bonuses from us for his business failures.

Foss characterizes poor people as liberals who need taxpayer help for food and medicine. Well, his conservative side needs to explain the trillions in bailouts and corporate welfare. I don’t see some poor homeless person asking for a private corporate jet and an outrageous bonus.

Foss’s America has citizens being denied healthcare insurance while doctors and hospitals refuse treatment without advance payment. Republican healthcare reform is to collect higher premiums, reject claims, and let people die when they get sick so they can make huge profits.