Carol A. Sonnenfeld/Letter to the Editor, Marietta Daily Journal : Health fix outrageous: Free for illegals 08/12/2009

What a way to start a Friday! When I read King’s column, I wanted to go someplace and scream: Wake up America now! Open your eyes and see what’s happening!

Obama is telling us that we must provide health care to the millions of illegal immigrants. Dr./Congressman Phil Gingrey says it best: “Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Waxman were busy navigating their own intra-party squabbles on how to nationalize America’s health care system and create avenues for illegal immigrants to receive health benefits at the expense of working, taxpayers. Simply put, this is disgraceful.”

During a health care panel discussion, there is talk of Wal-Mart rewarding illegals with government health care. How about rewarding our military who are out there for you, me, and our country putting their lives on line every day? I am married to a retired Army officer who served our country for over 30 years. We were told that if a person served in the military for 20 years, they would be rewarded with free health care for the rest of their lives.

Suddenly, that is no longer true and veterans now have to pay for their health care at age 65. Is something wrong with this picture?

Thank you, Congressman Gingrey and D.A. King. Maybe people will open their eyes before it’s too late.

Carol A. Sonnenfeld

Marietta

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