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Cover the blockage

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Why doesn’t The Spokesman-Review cover Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ blockage of health care reform? Why don’t we hear more about the money she takes from the health and insurance industries?

When Congress tried to allow Medicare to bargain with drug companies for lower prices, McMorris Rodgers voted it down.

While the president goes before the nation to fix our broken health care system, McMorris Rodgers demands that we keep spending $2.5 trillion per year on this for-profit mess. Yet she and her family enjoy exactly the great government health care that she denies to the rest of us.

I am laid off. If anyone in my family gets sick or injured now, we could lose everything.

Anyone in America can easily find themselves in this jam on a moment’s notice, no matter how hard you work. That is sickening in itself.

It’s time for Inland Northwest folk to shake off our fear of speaking up. And it’s time for our leading newspaper to show some spine as well.

McMorris Rodgers is now the paid voice of health industry profiteers, and we are all paying a ruinously high price for it. Let’s see some coverage of that.

David Camp

Spokane

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