Our current system allows insurance companies to discriminate against those who have pre-existing conditions, denying coverage to those who need it most, and each day 2,190 Californians lose their health coverage.
Reform that controls the skyrocketing cost of health insurance and covers every citizen is the type of reform that will protect hard-working Americans from bankruptcy and the experience of watching their life savings vanish if they become sick. Families deserve nothing less than the opportunity to choose between a public option and private insurance.
Health care, like water, is essential to life. We can make the choice to drink the water offered by our municipal government or from a bottle offered by a private company. Americans should be entitled to that same choice when it comes to health care.
JONATHAN WENN
La Crescenta
Uniting for safety and friendliness
In response to Dan Kimber’s July 30 column, titled “Church should be more upfront,” regarding literature from The Way to Happiness and the Foundation for a Drug Free World and Scientology religious literature:
I commend Kimber’s understanding of the controversies surrounding the Scientology religion stemming from the church’s stance against the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry and the psychotropic drugging solutions they promote.
The Church of Scientology, like nearly all religions, has numerous nonreligious programs to simply help the community. The Way to Happiness and the Foundation for a Drug Free World are two such programs.
