HEALTH CARE
Changes should protect children’s well-being
This is in response to “A market approach to health options” (Opinion, May 19) by state Sen. Chip Rogers and state Rep. Matt Ramsey. As a child health advocate, I share the same values as both legislators with regard to our need to increase the number of Georgians who are insured and to improve access to quality health coverage. Where our views diverge, however, is with respect to how best to achieve those ends.
My concern is that the approach outlined within the op-ed will result (albeit unintentionally) in the stripping away of Georgia’s guaranteed consumer protections within health coverage options. This in turn would result in worse health outcomes for kids and families, which moves us in the wrong direction. To promote a healthier Georgia, changes made to our health care delivery system should first and foremost prioritize (not jeopardize) the health and well-being of kids and families in Georgia.
Joann M. Yoon, associate policy director for child health, VOICES FOR GEORGIA’S CHILDREN
MIDDLE EAST
Israel has done so much in so much less time
Let’s make sure that if and when Israel is forced to go back to the 1967 borders that the land is left as received: barren, desolate and undeveloped.
Isn’t it amazing how much the Israelis were able to do in decades that others could not do in thousands of years, simply through education and hard work? Rosemary Routman, Duluth
POLITICS
Gingrich’s ‘bling’ debt births a new movement
In the spirit of political fairness, I am starting the Blinger Movement. Blingers would demand to see the paid $500,000 Tiffany receipt from Newt Gingrich. We don’t want some small piece of paper with a “paid” stamp on it. We’d demand the official Tiffany statement with all the monthly service charges for the items Gingrich purchased.
We won’t believe a simple newspaper article that states that Gingrich paid for his bling on a certain date; only official, notarized Tiffany statements will do. If Gingrich paid for it, he has nothing to hide.
Blingers would write to their representatives in Congress, demanding a law be put in place that only people with paid-up bling statements be able to run for office in their constituency. People deserve to know who pays for their bling, and who doesn’t. If you can’t pay for your own bling, and can’t manage yourself, how can you manage something as unwieldy as the federal budget?
Gary Acitelli, Marietta
Robbing Peter to pay Paul — and both hate us
We borrow money from countries that hate us and give it to countries that also hate us.
We could be independent from our so-called friends by drilling for oil in this country. Instead, we borrow more from people who hate us to buy the friendship of other countries (who will eventually hate us for interfering in their country’s affairs).
Great going, President Obama. Under your administration, the whole world soon will hate us. Tom Gambeski, Jasper
