Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." ~ Plato (Randall Schroeder)

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 Obama's system will make health care more scarce by artificially lowering the price. Health care is no different than TV sets or sugar or vacations. If you subsidize the market, everyone will demand more, while simultaneously giving suppliers incentives to supply less. Waiting rooms will overflow – just like they do in every other country that does this. Suddenly, everyone will need an MRI. People like me, who have degenerative disc disease, won't be able to get one when we're so crippled by pain we can't stand up. Doctors will be overwhelmed and underpaid, and I'll have to leave the country in a vain attempt to keep the system from killing me and my family.

You say it works in every other advanced country. That's false. Socialized medicine is a disaster everywhere it's tried. I recently heard the mobs in waiting rooms in Sweden sometimes get violent enough that armed guards are necessary. I've spoken with Canadians who tell me their system is horribly flawed and corrupt. They just come to the U.S. I wonder where they'll go after people like you are done with U.S. health care? We don't need a "one-payer" system – all that means is " government-controlled." Health care is not special. You screw it up, and you'll ruin the quality and lower the quantity available. Nothing is free.

You can't change that. People didn't make it that way. They found it that way, and that's the way it'll always be. Regards, Dan Ferris, Medford, Oregon

This is in regard to last week’s paper. I would like to know why Bob Redland seems to think he knows what the BGID needs and doesn't need. He has no clue as to what work BGID has, unless he is applying for the job.  I really don't think it's any of his business and furthermore it is open to the public. Maybe this person should go to a meeting if he has a problem with the BGID. Mary Peden

I read your paper containing Ms. Tarr's response to an earlier article about the health care reform bill. That article sadly I missed. In her response she stated you were "misinformed". I have since received more information from another "Reader" of the bill in question. I give you his response. Perhaps you should refer Ms. Tarr to the following pages and lines I have listed below as they may directly affect her. pages 239,268,425,427,429, and 430 of the bill. I hope this clears up the question of your level of information or lack thereof. What I have trouble with is that some of this is even being suggested.    Gary L. Reid  

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08/05/09 EDWARD KIDD WAS BOOKED INTO BEATTY JAIL ON CHARGES OF SUSPENDED DRIVERS LICENSE-OUT OF STATE & HEADLIGHTS REQUIRED

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