HEALTH CARE
Medicare expansion is a moral obligation
I urge your support for Medicare for all.
People of faith have an obligation to comfort the sick and afflicted. We are directed to love our neighbor as ourselves. Americans already pay more for health care than any other people on Earth. We already pay enough to cover all citizens with quality care.
This is a question of faith, even more than of politics. We turn our backs on the unfortunates among us at the peril of our immortal souls, and make no mistake, you will answer for what you do on this issue: once at the polls, and ultimately, before God.
Medicare already exists as a program. There is no need to start fumbling around with basic questions. Funding is possible. We already spend the money — we just don’t get the return on our investment that citizens of other countries do.
For too long, there has been no accountability in Washington, especially when corporate interests are on the line. Companies can misbehave, steal, crush employee rights and keep getting lucrative government contracts. This must stop now.
John Moore, Atlanta
HEALTH CARE
We must take care of people, not corporations
Please listen to the needs and pain of millions of uninsured or underinsured Americans. If we don’t have compassion, and take care of our own citizenry, what kind of cruel-hearted, greed-driven country are we?
Many other countries have led the way in managing their population’s health care needs successfully, and at much less cost, using the single-payer system.
Please vote for Medicare for all, and stand up for the people — not the greedy corporate interests.
Jannah Goodell, Decatur
SOCIETY
Culture-borrowing is positive, not negative
The writer who claimed that Leonard Pitts showed intolerance was off base (“Readers write,” Opinion, Dec. 3). He was presumptuous in his certainty that “were he living in Atlanta, his Nov. 19 column would surely have focused on the transgender story of Vandy Beth Glenn ...”
Sammy Sosa is entitled to lighten his complexion if he chooses. Members of different racial groups curl or straighten their hair to get it more like the texture of some other group.
Caucasians spend hours in the sun trying to make their skin darker. Some see such practices as objectionable. As a sociologist, I appreciate the fact that cultures borrow from each other, and have done so since the beginning of time.
The writer was wrong in comparing the cases of the two individuals he cites. Vandy Beth Glenn was turning to who he/she was, and embracing it.
Sosa was turning away from who he was because he was, apparently, unwilling to embrace it. Or, maybe, as he claimed, lightening of the skin was an unintended consequence of the face cream.
Bill Willis, Winston
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