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Sat., Aug. 1, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

It wasn’t clear what point Austin Allison (Letters, July 26) wanted to make when writing, “It is under no circumstances the responsibility of any American, rich or poor, to pay for someone else’s health care.”

We may not have a responsibility when we see a car stuck in the snow, but we help push anyway. We call 911 in an emergency without asking if that’s our responsibility. We pay for schools for someone else’s children, although it’s been claimed that their education is not our responsibility.

We do many things simply because we see a need. I think there is a need when 46 million Americans have no health insurance.

Roy Johnson

Pullman

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