Letter: Demand change for health care reform

From: John Deitering
Buffalo
There is a battle raging in America that needs the attention of every citizen. Seventy-six percent of the American people want health care reform, and corporate health care is spending $1.4 million dollars per day to make sure that we don’t get it.
The system we have now – dominated by insurance companies – has given us health care that excludes 47 million Americans, has doubled our insurance premiums in the past eight years, costs us more per capita than any other country in the world, limits our choice of doctors, creates profits by denying treatment, delivers a health care that ranks 37th in the world, and blocks consumers from buying cheaper name-brand drugs from countries like Canada.
Health care reform will not be freely given to you; you must take power away from corporate health care, and give it to the American people.
We must demand a universally available public healthcare option that will compete with private insurance.
Call your senators and representatives. We have been waiting a lifetime for health care reform. Now is the time to demand real change.