McHenry County Opinion
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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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Listen to the average joesNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Thank God for the representatives who listen to the everyday "Joe" and voted for H.R. 3962. Too long we have been in the stranglehold of the insurance industry. We try t...
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A list of fixes for health careNov 27, 2009 10:00 pm - The House of Representative's version of the health care bill barely passed on Nov. 7. Good or bad? Many questions remain to be addressed. It's estimated that reform wil...
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Time to pull out of AfghanistanNov 25, 2009 10:00 pm - The President spent part of Veterans Day spouting lip service to our vets. Then on the same day announces that he does not accept any of the Afghanistan options, and wil...
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Adopted children born in the heartNov 25, 2009 10:00 pm - November is National Adoption month. This is very important to me because I was adopted when I was just more than a year old. I am now 15 and one of my life goals is to ...
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Building bad health system for our kidsNov 23, 2009 10:00 pm - What we are doing is wrong. We need to work with the current system, encourage business to become more efficient, not create a "national health" program. Do you really w...
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Bean lauded for health care voteNov 20, 2009 10:00 pm - I want to thank everyone who voted to provide health care for Americans. Melissa Bean should be especially thanked for having the foresight and statesmanship to support ...
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Health care bill will only bog down careNov 20, 2009 10:00 pm - If you believe we who pay taxes and are excited about the prospect of having this health care reform jammed down our throats, you are mistaken. I work in health care and...
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Many of us a paycheck away from disasterNov 20, 2009 10:00 pm - I am grateful that after nearly a century a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives made history by passing the health reform bill. It is very disappointing ...