Health care law is ‘widely unpopular?’

Reading the letters to the Fence Post, my daily chore, is becoming somewhat difficult for me these days, so seeing Mr. Troland’s letter on April 23 was like a breath of fresh air. He points out that the Republicans were not especially concerned about the $2 trillion deficit run up during the Bush administration years from 2002-2008.

But now the Republican reactionaries insist on trimming the budget deficit by slashing President Obama’s social welfare and environmental programs such as Head Start, health care for low-income people, education, Medicare reform, veterans and environmental safeguards.

Mr. Troland’s letter was a welcome contrast to the rant of a gentleman from West Chicago of three days earlier. This man blamed everything he didn’t like going on in our country on President Obama, such as the oil spill crisis, the Ft. Hood shooting, the education system, etc.

He repeated the big lie of the Republicans that the recent health care legislation is “widely unpopular.” There is no scientific poll I’ve read or heard of that supports such a claim.

And who are these people who find the Obama health care legislation “widely unpopular?” Are they among the 40-50 million who had no health insurance, among the people who can’t buy any insurance because they have “pre-existing conditions,” among those who have been dropped because they were too sick, and among the middle class who are experiencing spiraling-out-of-control health care costs?

Leo T. Ratzer

Lisle