Why not focus on real health care issues?

Why are President Obama and Ms. Sebelius focusing their energies on women’s reproductive rights when there are so many more urgent healthcare issues to address? They seem bent on forcing us to pay for birth control and abortions, raising the ire of the Catholics, the Jews, the Christian Fundamentalists and almost every other religious organization and every First Amendment advocate in this country, when those rights are not a major health care issue needing government control and funding.

By their own admission and as they and their supporters have stated over and over during this campaign, 99 percent of the women in this country are already using birth control. They don’t tell us where they found that statistic, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. And in that light there doesn’t seem to be any real need for government intervention; and it would seem that the refusal of religious organizations to fund such procedures hasn’t made any difference in the delivery of these procedures to that 99 percent of the women in this country.

So why do not Obama and Sebelius focus on some of the real health care issues, such as requiring insurance companies to pay the catastrophic medical bills incurred by those seriously ill who are losing their homes because of these major unforeseen bills? What about “preexisting conditions”? What about dental care? What about paying maternity hospital bills for adopted infants?

There are many many other serious medical issues for which people honestly need help from their government and their insurance agencies. They should stop alienating voters by attacking the religious sector and the First Amendment rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution; and pick up the votes of that constituency which has real health care issues.

Marvin Schulgen

Lombard