LETTER: Politics above country?

I am astounded that people place party politics above the country to the point that they tell untruths or insinuate an untruth just to have their way - because they know what is right? With amazement I watched on the evening news on one of the major networks where a lady, who appeared to me to be in the Social Security range, was concerned that her taxes were going up. She was almost in tears. She seemed to be so much concerned about medical costs. I just wondered if she realized that (assuming that she was Social Security age) Medicare and Medicaid are social medical insurance programs. Medicare cost has gone up too much - much more than any other large segment of society.

It seems that rich conservatives would want to continue Medicare just the way it is because they apparently support drug companies who charge customers between $45 and $1,500 wherein the cost of the, many times made in foreign countries, ingredients in the pills (30 to 100 pills) cost the drug companies between $0.11 (100 pills, $104) to $19 (100 tablets, $1,485). With this knowledge it is no wonder that the rich conservatives want things to stay the same.

For whatever reason there is so much dishonesty as to charges that medical professionals accumulate. I was using one physician and when he left, his replacement came in and immediately wrote out so many things I needed to do without asking me if I had done any of those things. I took his paperwork and placed it in a trash can at home. I looked and found a different doctor. I do not know what the doctor wrote on the long of a list of things I needed to do. He did not ask me if I had any other physicians. He wrote all of this without him touching me at all (a practitioner did do the standard thing - blood pressure, temperature, weight, and asked how I felt on a scale of 1 to 10). Why would he do this? Does it have anything to do with charging the government?

These kinds of abuses, double and triple tests, are costs that are unnecessary, wasteful and drive up Medicare/Medicaid expense to the government. Why do the rich want this to continue?

It just has to stop! Why do the rich conservatives spend so much time and money trying to decide what is the biggest tale we can tell during the next election? It would be my guess that some of the best psychologists are hired to figure out "How can we fool them this time?"

It is my belief that it is never right to tell a wrong - call it politics, politically correct, or whatever - it is wrong. It is an untruth.

When candidates say the best insurance plan is to give a "credit ..." I do not know how children and "can not works" are going to get medical care. Something is wrong.

Do you not believe that the government has Medicare, Medicaid, veterans medical services, military medical service, federal senators and representatives medical services, and others from which something has been learned?

Willar Hightower

Aiken