The juxtaposition of two stories in The Free Lance-Star on Sept. 2 explains better than anything else why I support President Obama's health care reform.
May I suggest that readers place these photos side by side: the face of the angry, older man in the article titled "Health care gets panned" next to the face of the young baby being held by her mother in the article titled "Expanding care for kids"?
The older man is protesting that his health care will be rationed and that he "will be sent down the trail to die."
The baby seems to have fear in her young eyes, as if sensing that the cancer that felled her sister may next visit her. My heart went out to this young child and her parents.
And I would reassure the gentleman
Why must the two most vulnerable groups in our country have to worry about their health coverage?
Why must the parents of this baby have to hold car washes and other private efforts to raise funds to get a pediatric facility located in this area?
The spread of lies to panic the elderly and many other groups is craven to the extreme. The U.S. is the richest, most powerful country in the world. Will we not take care
The conservatives want to maintain the status quo at all costs. They "want their old country back."
I maintain that health care is a birthright, not a commodity to be traded in a supposedly "free" market based on profit.
Both of these citizens must have health care as their right. Please support real health care reform.
Dorothy Clear
Spotsylvania