Jobs, Healthcare Directly Related

To The Editor:
Jobs and health care are directly related. Small business runs our economy. How many small business owners have been prevented from hiring new workers because they were already being squeezed in providing health care to the employees they already have?
How many people have lost their jobs and their health care and are now without insurance of any kind?
How many businesses have had to deny good health care to their employees because they simply cannot afford it?
We need health care reform now. What are we waiting for? It’s been over five decades since President Truman suggested that every American should have health care. How many presidents have agreed that health care for every American is a right and not a privilege? And still our Congress delays.
Our Congress delays, but they have affordable health care. So do all government workers. Do you know why? Because they are part of a pool…a very large pool…and they have the ability to choose health care that they can afford.
That is what our president is trying to do now. That is what the majority in Congress is trying to do now. Create a very large pool where Americans can then purchase affordable health care. By stopping the abuses of the insurance companies, more lives will be saved. Can it be that every single Republican in Congress wants their own health care to continue but is unwilling to give us the same?
Surely there is brave soul out there who knows in his or her heart that caring for the American people is more important than sticking with the “old boys club” and saying no to every thing this president is trying to do.
C’mon, Rep. Lobiondo, you’ve crossed the aisle before in your voting. You’re pretty safe in your re-election in November. Be the one; be the representative we know you are. Support us and vote for health care. And then see how Americans will breathe a sigh of relief and how job creation will follow.
MICKI GOLDBERG
Court House