Itasca Opinion
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Why can't everyone have Medicare?Apr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - With the cost of health insurance rising at over 15 percent per year for most folks, assuming they don't have a medical condition that would exclude them, this will soon...
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A taxpayer-fueled debate over nothingApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The April 8 article, "Group wants House prayer to stop" puzzled me. The Freedom From Religion Foundation "claims the prayers violate the U.S. Constitution because they a...
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Health care bill is a bill for the peopleApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The biggest problem to the passage of this bill, was that most members of the press kept calling it health care reform. This bill was about changing health care insuranc...
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The secrecy must stop at Lake ParkApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - What in the world is up with all the mystery at Lake Park High School District 108? On Wednesday, Superintendent John Butts suddenly said he was leaving with more than t...
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Insurance giants asked for thisApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing in support of health care reform legislation passed on the Hill. I would have preferred a single-payer, public option, but it is a start. For all of you wh...
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Can health reform control insurance?Apr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Thank you to whoever voted for the health care reform. It is a victory for all Americans. I just received a letter in the mail from Blue Cross/Blue Shield, advising me ...
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From disillusion to pride in AmericaApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Health care reform makes me - a first generation immigrant American - proud to be an American. We moved to the U.S. because we felt the values of freedom, justice and lo...
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Letters on this page courtesy of Biden?Apr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - I just received an e-mail from Joe Biden and Organizing for America - somehow I ended up in the Vast OFA database (despite the fact that I'm fiscally conservative and op...
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Health care law will save many livesApr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - I would like to say thank you to my senators in Illinois for passing health care because it was the right thing to do. It will save thousands and thousand of lives; why ...
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Drugs part of money-making ployApr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - I see this change as a first step in a very long line of reforms that need to occur. Not only should everyone have access to medical care, but the people providing medic...