All senior citizens can get Social Security, which was never voted for by one Republican. Also the Bush administration tried to get rid of it by privatizing it and also putting it on the stock market. Everyone knows that it’s a government program, and I haven’t heard of any CEOs refusing to accept their money.

Medicare is a government program and has been around for 34 years, and I haven’t heard that any CEO wouldn’t accept it after they retired.

Every senior citizen on Medicare knows that if their insurance does not pay that Medicare will not pay anything on their medical bill. So many, many thousands of people would not have any help at all on their medical bills. But who is making the decisions on their medical procedures? It’s the insurance companies that have to make their profits. They say competition will bring prices down, but that is not always true anymore.

I heard the biggest beer maker is raising the price for the product. Why?

Why are so many people against a government program. Now senior citizens will not get a raise next year and Medicare is going up again the costs keep going up and up.

Why can only the Congress have such a good medical program. (A government program, by the way.)

It works for them. Why wouldn’t it work for us.

Health care reform should eliminate the pre-existing conditions clause that insurance companies use, fix the doughnut hole, stop cutting people off insurance, when people get cancer and lower health care costs if everyone is paying into the program.

A small group of right-wingers are engaging in an all-out effort to stop real health care reform, because we are closer than we have been for 50 years. So if you want to get something accomplished and stop these disruptions go to Web site healthcare.barackobama.com and sign a declaration of support to reform healthcare at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/healthcare-action-center. Or call Congressman Tim Walz’s congressional office, Mankato, (507) 388-2149 or (877) TIM-WALZ.

Also submit a letter to the editor in the Albert Lea Tribune by e-mailing your letter to news@albertleatribune.com with the subject “letter to the editor” or by mail to 808 W. Front St., Albert Lea, MN 56007

Read stories from people in your own community, or to share your story visit, healthcare.barackobama.com/stories.

Rose Anderson

assistant chairwoman

Freeborn County DFL Party

Albert Lea