Gun restrictions not all bad; neither is NRA
I agree that our rifles don’t need bump-stocks, we should limit the number of rounds a magazine can hold, and we should do more and better background checks. However, this current bunch of young ones seems to want to just do away with the NRA and all it stands for. I just re-read Tom Brokaw’s book covering the sacrifice in blood, sweat and tears of the Greatest Generation in World War II, to protect our Constitution and way of life. Perhaps these youngsters should do the same.
ED ROACH, BRASELTON
Well, here we go again. A health care system and insurer are battling it out over something neither is entitled to: your money. The Piedmont vs. Blue Cross Blue Shield fight has happened before. When both parties realize that both stand to lose if they don’t come to an agreement, then the dust will settle. Then the insurer can go back to denying claims, and the health care system can return to building more facilities to treat disease rather than prevent it. There isn’t any money for them in the latter. You can do that yourself. What is the solution? Universal health care, coupled with a private insurance option, and price transparency. UHC coverage will need to be mandatory for all. The private insurance option will be for those who wish to pay additional for special services, such as that 10th MRI or the additional testing your employed doctor wants to order because he/she is incentivized to do so. Unless fee-for-service is eliminated, such incentives will continue to tarnish what remains of the practice of medicine.
DR. DOUGLAS HOFFMANN, SMYRNA
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