Elgin Opinion
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Single-payer plan makes most senseNov 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Now is the time to pass a national single payer health care plan. Tens of thousands of middle class Americans are now out of work and their COBRA insurance, if they are ...
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Health care plan penalizes workersNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - I feel that it is wrong to ask the American citizens, who paid into Medicare their whole working life, to pay half the cost to fund the bill through benefit cuts. At the...
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Flu vaccine debacle shows folly in reformNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - I read with interest today's concern by the Illinois chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics that the Illinois Department of Health and/or the state of Illinois is...
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Health reform bill a long time comingNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - The health care bill was passed by the House recently, and it was at least a step toward a final bill after the Senate votes. We are all hoping that the final vote will ...
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Easy answers to tough questionsNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Let's get to the heart of our problems and solve them. Why are health costs rising? We all want health care reform. There are different ways to climb the mountain. The m...
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Here's what's wrong with AmericaNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - What's wrong is AFTRA, CAFTA, NAFTA, three words that have helped put America behind with other nations. These three things sold America down the river with the thanks o...
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Auto-dialer calls don't' win us overNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Melissa Bean, Please quit having your auto-dialer call my home telephone. These attempts to inform this voter, trumping up the good job you and your Washington peers ar...
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Ignoring warming carries greater costNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - While reading the newspaper the last few months I have noticed a disturbing trend. There is a new wave of deniers of the fact that greenhouse gasses are contributing to ...
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Protest proposed change in health careNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - I'm totally opposed to any further expansion of the federal government in the area of health care. Even if I thought this was remotely permissible under the Constitution...
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It's easy to imagine what could happenNov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Having read many adventure novels this past year by Clancy, Cussler, and Vince Flynn, I'm inspired to write my own thriller. After all, Tom Clancy foresaw an attack on W...