HEALTH CARE
Response to "Georgians wary of health law" News, Sept. 22
Thank you for this article on the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare).
I am 70 years old, disabled, and would have been eligible for Medicaid this next year, had the governor not rejected the expansion. I will continue to pay for Medicare.
I thank the federal government for having a Georgia health exchange, despite our state’s refusal to participate. I just went to get more information on the exchange at www.healthinsurance.org/ and found a good deal on dental insurance (even though I don’t have to use the exchanges). If people will take a little time, go to a non-political source, and learn the provisions in Obamacare, a lot of them would change their opinion of the act. It has many provisions that will benefit us.
DENNIS MCKINNEY, SNELLVILLE
COMMENTARY
In business, someone
has to accept the risks
Mike Luckovich’s cartoon in the Sept. 22 Opinion section was produced with no reality check whatsoever.
So who do you think, Mike, funded the building of those houses in your cartoon? Did the middle-class hard workers pull their money together and put up the cash for that construction, or did the “evil” Monopoly character put up the money so that they would have a job? It always amazes me that the middle-class worker is the only hard worker.
Has Mike ever personally run a business, taken a business course or managed employees? The stress, responsibility, long hours (with no overtime), homework and missed vacations might just surprise you.
NANCY ORTNER, JOHNS CREEK
Cartoonist’s message
on high court obvious
“Supreme Court cartoon stumps reader” (Readers write, Opinion, Sept. 22) surely stumped me.
It was surprising that the reader and his “knowledgeable friends” did not understand a cartoon by Mike Luckovich, which implied that the Supreme Court is owned by corporate America. I suppose they have not heard about the Citizens United ruling. To allow special interests to buy our elections is not in keeping with our democratic principles.
As for Luckovich, I find him the best cartoonist in the country today. It does not negate his keen insight if there are some who do not understand his cartoons. He relies totally on the facts, and portrays reality in the most humorous way. Atlanta is so lucky to have him.
JANE FOSTER, GRAYSON
LEISURE
Southeast Travel
a worthwhile feature
Thank you very much for the informative and thorough Southeast travel section you published on Sept. 22 (“The best of the Southeast,” Travel).
This was another worthwhile addition to your outstanding newspaper.
DON RUSHING, ATLANTA
IMMIGRATION
Favor reform that’s
consistent with faith
I was pleasantly surprised to read “Surprising Ga. majority backs citizenship path” (News, Sept. 21), showing that more than 50 percent of those surveyed approved reforming the immigration system. The conditions by which that would occur seem to be the pillars on which comprehensive immigration reform is based: God-given dignity of every person; secure borders; fines for those who broke the rules; fairness for taxpayers; a return to the rule of law, and the protection and unity of the family.
As an ordained evangelical pastor, my hope is that these changing numbers also reflect an improvement among Georgia’s evangelical communities. It isn’t just about the economic gain of reform, or being consistent with our national ethos as a welcoming home. My hope is that we would all be consistent with our highest values, which include fidelity to the scriptures. The Bible is clear about God’s heart and care for immigrants.
One of the great opportunities of the immigration reform discussion for evangelicals is the chance to allow the abundant scriptural witness to shape our hearts and our public policy so that both are more just, compassionate and biblically consistent.
TIM ISAACSON, DORAVILLE
