A historic health-care bill

A historic health-care bill

EDITOR:

Recently a research team at Harvard Medical School released a report that says over 44,000 Americans die each year, including over 2,200 veterans, because of the lack of health insurance. This is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every month in a year. Under the leadership of President Obama, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress is pushing ahead with a health insurance reform bill that will assure that over 30 million Americans will have access to affordable health care coverage that they currently do not have. This bill is as historic as Social Security. No other president has been able to get this type of legislation that the vast majority of Americans want. This plan will address those costs, reduce the deficit, cover those who cannot get coverage, and, most important, save lives.

The Republican Party has been spreading lies about the bill to try to scare people into not supporting this historic legislation that will benefit Americans. There is a reason that health insurance companies are spending over $1.5 million a day to defeat this legislation. They are investing to protect their profits over the lives of 44,000 Americans each year and the Republican Party is more than willing to do their dirty work.

In our Constitution’s preamble it states that we need to “form a more perfect union” so that our country can progress and we progress as Americans. Since President Teddy Roosevelt many other presidents have tried to provide some type of health insurance reform in this country. President Obama will be the first to achieve this historic legislation.

TOM LAMB

Youngstown