Nation's leaders need to get serious on health care
This ridiculous "health care plan" proposed by this Clown College of a Republican Congress and their preposterous president does not cause 23 million sick and poor people to magically disappear. These 23 million people will return to the emergency rooms of our city, county and state taxpayer-funded hospitals for their needed care. This pathetic attempt of a "dog and pony show" will have to be paid for by increased local taxes and costs of hospital care. That is not a viable solution by any measure.
It is time for our elected national officials in Congress assembled to take up the so-called "Obamacare" plan and address its shortcomings, correct them and fully fund the result or, failing that, to finally provide for a single-payer health system modeled after the successful Medicare insurance program with a basic package of health coverage and its offer of supplementary private health care providers that would provide further enhanced coverage fashioned to each Americans pocket book and ability to pay.
No more "dog and pony shows." No more "guess which nut half-shell the pea is hid under." It is time for responsible national elected officials to be the adults and provide the health coverage all Americans deserve!
Tom Clark
Fayetteville
Foundation's funders aren't focused on debate
I respectfully need to disagree with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial of May 26 regarding the Young America's Foundation.
If, as you report, this group is funded and therefore most likely influenced by billionaires such as the Koch brothers and the DeVos family, then to say (as you did) that, "the object ... is not to shut down the opposition but engage it in debate" is highly suspect.
I would encourage everyone to read the carefully researched book Dark Money by Jane Mayer to get detailed information how these people use their fortunes to try and influence what we and our political representatives think.
People have the right to speak in public, but I would hope anyone being sponsored by a school -- whether high school, college or university -- would be vetted as to their qualifications and have their sources fact checked.
Please don't accept what you hear or read on the Internet without checking on its validity.
All research findings are not equal.
Be aware and do your own homework.
Annee Littell
Fayetteville
Commentary on 05/30/2017