By Steve Carlson
Superior (Wis.) Telegram, June 15, 2011
Letters
I read with great interest one of Congressman Sean Duffy’s remarks to the crowd gathered June 6, at the Superior Senior Center. As quoted by Business North, Duffy said, “We did not, did not become a great country from socialist entitlement systems.”
Huh?
Once again Duffy demonstrates that he is incapable of intelligent comment on important policy issues. An overwhelming percentage of the American people favor keeping Medicare just as it is. A sizable percentage would like to see the program expanded to include all Americans, which is probably the best way to preserve the program, extend coverage to everyone, and bring the costs of health care down going forward.
Physicians for a National Health Program has some great information available about national health insurance at www.pnhp.org. This is where the health care debate in this country should be going, and we desperately need politicians who can intelligently discuss these issues in an open, reasonable manner.
But it seems all Duffy can do is haul out his array of tired clichés, hackneyed phrases and inflammatory buzzwords, all so he and his fellow Ayn Rand worshippers can deliver our senior citizens into the clutches of a greedy and unscrupulous health insurance industry. That’s more than callous, it’s downright cruel.
Come November 2012, we need to elect a new representative and send Sean Duffy back to “The Real World.”
Steve Carlson resides in Trego, Wis.
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