Health care problem must be solved

As a small-business owner I have always prided myself on the benefits I fight hard to offer my employees, including health insurance. What I previously was able to give as a full benefit, I can only offer as an option for them if they can afford the premiums. Not only does this affect my ability to attract and keep good workers, it is a failure of our government leadership not to be looking out for its citizens and affording every opportunity to aid in their attainment of "LIFE (a healthy one), LIBERTY (from outrageous premiums, substandard health care and special interest groups) and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (including the stress-free ability to take care of our children and families; working to live, not living to work, just to afford and maintain health-insurance coverage)" that our countrymen have fought and died for and we all should hold so dear.

PLEASE do everything you can to help us and fix this once and for all. It should be a personal embarrassment to you and your fellow ELECTED officials that the people you promise to serve are being left in the dust of corporate lobbyists. I would be in D.C., too, knocking on your door and contributing to your campaigns, if I could afford the money and time off work, but I can't afford to jeopardize my family's welfare, and I shouldn't have to just to get basic needs met.

PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING HERE. Think about your constituents' needs and rights first!!!!!

Laura Tomsky

Grayslake