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Article misses 2 factors
in well being care debate
Concerning “Common protection in California is a greater guess than single-payer,” Web page A6, Feb 4:
Plainly George Skelton is feeding the most cancers of false equivalencies when he brings up Ronald Reagan’s “Authorities doesn’t clear up issues, it's the drawback.” Single-payer well being care just isn't essentially “government-run” as a result of a nonprofit can successfully administer well being care financing as Medicare has confirmed for 64 years.
He additionally cites costly authorities well being taxes purposefully overlooking the company charges or taxes (aka co-pays, deductibles and exclusions) charged by personal well being insurers which can be much more pricey for lower-income earners and most everybody else. That multitude of personal well being insurers has a large number of qualifications for medical value reimbursement, whereas a single nonprofit entity supplies standardization for care and financing. Lastly, “common” is insurer-speak for availability, not protection, one other false equivalency.
I reference well being care as two parts: supply and financing.
Gerald Hunt
San Jose
Diabetics face stigma
in addition to illness
Diabetics are consistently confronted with stereotypes relating to meals, sugar, weight-reduction plan, and the like. Would you be shocked to be taught that many diabetics face insecurities about meals?
Each meal a Sort 1 diabetic should take a dose of insulin (a hormone that breaks down vitamins to create power). With the stress to “eat higher” together with the frequent aspect impact of weight achieve that will include taking insulin, there's a chance that a diabetic could develop a disordered relationship with meals. At occasions it might probably look like a chore to supply a meal, and dose for the carbohydrates, to not point out correcting your blood glucose ranges for hours after consuming. It may be simpler to skip the meal altogether, lowering stress ranges in addition to anxieties about weight achieve.
The stigma and stereotypes round diabetes should come to an finish to be able to help the well being of this tenacious group.
Anna Shull
San Jose
RNC’s Jan. 6 place
endangers us all
The Republican Nationwide Committee believes that the Jan. 6 riot was regular political discourse (“GOP: Jan. 6 ‘reputable political discourse’,” Web page A1, Feb. 5). I positive would love their members to cross a legislation making such habits lawful.
Can’t think about native faculty board or council conferences permitting flags for use as weapons, the breaking of doorways and home windows and attacking elected officers as on a regular basis, ho-hum, regular discourse. I think about a brand new slogan: “Develop into concerned in your group, carry a shovel to the subsequent board assembly.”
The social gathering of “no” has drifted to this point to the precise that they now place us all in peril. China and Russia know we're in disarray and are transferring to take full benefit of what Donald Trump and the Republicans have created. Our democracy just isn't solely in danger however the world as we all know it is usually in peril.
Mark Grzan
Morgan Hill
Boycott any eating places
utilizing plastic containers
Everyone knows that all the planet is affected by tons of plastic – from the highest of Everest to the depths of the oceans.
Our life on this planet is dying. A latest report indicated that 380 million metric tons of plastic are at the moment manufactured each single 12 months!
The EPA experiences that solely about 9% of that plastic makes it to recycle bins, and of that 9%, a lot of it's really dumped by the recycling crops.
But many eating places refuse to make use of cardboard or compostable containers. My guess is it’s for the underside greenback of on-line supply companies.
I lately emailed the supervisor of a preferred Pakistani restaurant group who mentioned they’ve tried “all different” containers and none might maintain their masala. Hogwash. Sturdy paper soup/chili containers can be simply high-quality. They even put their rice in plastic.
I encourage everybody to boycott eating places that use plastic.
Kathleen McNellis
Redwood Metropolis
U.S. should cease exporting
horses for slaughter
Horse slaughter for meat has been banned in California since 1998, nearly 10 years earlier than horse slaughter was federally banned. Nonetheless, tens of 1000's of American horses are nonetheless being shipped throughout america to be slaughtered in Canada and Mexico.
Offered to kill-buyers in america, horses are sometimes transported with insufficient meals, water and relaxation. Typically injured in transport, they arrive terrified to slaughterhouses the place they could not at all times be correctly shocked earlier than they're killed.
The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act, (H.R 3355 / S. 2732) has been reintroduced within the Home and Senate. This laws would ban the export of American horses to slaughterhouses as soon as and for all.
Let’s make sure that no American horses develop into the victims of those merciless practices. Urge Sen. Dianne Feinstein and your Congressional consultant to affix Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Zoe Lofgren and co-sponsor the SAFE Act (H.R.3355 / S.2732).
Judith Hurley
San Jose