Sunday, February 7, 2010 — James Misenheimer, chairman of the Democrat-ic Party, Stanly County, I certainly appreciate your response in the SNAP.
It would be a good idea if you would go back and read my note. It plainly asserts that the people are being shafted by Ms. Hagan’s voting record.
More to the point, I propose that we need to protect these people from the socialization of Obama-care. You seem to be bound by rhetoric and not fact.
My letter pointed to eight items that need to be left alone, from her supporting reducing Medicare by $500 billion to her supporting overwhelming Medicaid, driving it to an earlier bankruptcy. Her record of dismal support speaks for itself.
Since you have learned that “cost is a concern,” it seems your word is wanting and coasting along with blinders on, not me. Since you are interested in fixing healthcare let me give you a few ideas that I have broached to Sen. Burr and Hagan that we the people need:
• Tort reform. This will positively reduce malpractice insurance rates, end the nonsensical call for every conceivable test being run to preclude the fire engine chasing lawyers. With limited liability payments and forcing medical claims to binding arbitration will drive the cost of medicine down as the doctors and hospitals will not be running scared as now.
• Portability of healthcare insurance for workers so they can take their healthcare from job to job and in many cases keep their premiums lower and/or coverage intact.
• Ability to purchase healthcare across state lines to allow more competition in purchasing and allowing competition to set premiums instead of a few insurance politicians in our legislatures and Congress who keep driving the cost of medical care up.
• Allow drug companies to sell in the U.S. as they do in Canada. There should not be the extreme difference in wholesale cases between countries.
• End the waiting periods for coverage and prior conditions not being allowed to be insured.
Right now without any bills, laws, or pie-in-the-sky manifestations, she and the Democrat Senate could be doing something about the waste, fraud, double billing and the criminal misuses of Medicare and Medicaid. Why isn’t she speaking out for those thousands right here in Stanly?
These are a few more “ideas” I endorse besides the eight I wrote about and you ignored.
Now I will provide you a little detail to qualm your suppositions about me.
Yup, I have fallen off cabbage trucks, fallen off the hay wagon too, but was lucky enough to retain enough sense as a young man to know I ain’t cut out to be a Democrat. I was a John Kennedy advocate but like a kitten, my eyes eventually opened and I realized as a pizz-ant farm boy I was truly a conservative: Re-publican by choice, conservative by American beliefs.
I live, most probably unlike you, on my SS and Medicare Advantage plan (one of the things Ms. Hagan wants to end) along with a small pension. And, I doubt if you could comprehend, I have suffered financial setbacks and have had members of the family suffer during this ongoing “repression” losing healthcare and jobs.
That, sir, is why I wrote about Ms. Hagan in the first place.
Thomas M. McCluskey
New London
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Gingrich a front runner?
A year ago not many people gave Newt Gingrich much chance of being president.
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An exciting year so far at WSMS
I am an eighth grade teacher at West Stanly Middle and wanted to take the opportunity to share some of the highlights of our year.
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Clean Tech has right to choose location
I am writing in reference to Huck Huckabee’s letter to the editor.
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Let them make the decisions they are being paid to make
I am not being critical of our school board or individuals who sit upon it. I am not advocating that redistricting is the best option nor am I opposed to it.
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The company was never about creating jobs
I think Mayor Whitley’s offer of the Wiscassett Mills property to Clean Tech was a brilliant move. The Jan. 5 SNAP article noted that Steve Strickler of Clean Tech said the Wiscassett Mills property “… would not fit Clean Tech’s needs in terms of size and available infrastructure.”
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It's Past Time To Look At Redistricting
Question: Where does the West Stanly School District start? Answer: Just past the little bridge on West Main Street in Albemarle just before Hinks Grill. Handi-Mart and Stanly Community College are also in the West District. The South District starts somewhere around Rock Creek Park.
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Questions to Stanly County
Over the past few months there has been a lot of public discussion concerning the ALCOA relicensing, the effort to locate CleanTech in Stanly County and the dollars spent by the Stanly County Commissioners on these two items
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Postal Service needs greater flexibility for the new year
As we look forward to the beginning of a new year, the Postal Service still needs Congress to make a basic choice: to permit USPS to function more as a business or to continue the constraints.
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ALCOA and their available jobs were not run out of Stanly County
It is my opinion that ALCOA made the choice to leave Stanly County which eliminated good paying jobs and benefits for its citizens after enjoying years of profitable business here. I am also very appreciative of the jobs ALCOA provided in the past.
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Alcoa has been a great giver to Stanly County
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I would like to inform the Stanly County manager and the commissioners that no one person owns the Yadkin-Pee Dee River. It is owned by the God of Heaven. And Alcoa’s dams have provided a great source of water to several counties. - More Letters to the Editor Headlines
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Gingrich a front runner?
