by John Gaudio, I received an email from Governor Bill Ritter, asking me to "Voice your support for health care reform in your community by submitting a letter to the editor of your local paper today!" Clicking the link started a video in which the parents of six year old Thomas Wilkes told of their considerable hardships due to limitaions on their health insurance plan. I wrote and submitted the following letter to the editor, not, I'm sure, what Bill Ritter had in mind, in response to his request. I don't know if it will make it to the editor of the Denver Post, let alone be published there, but I'll share it with you here. Please use the comment button below, to tell me your thoughts on this very important issue. In response to Governor Ritter's email requesting letters to the editor, I urge our president and law makers to enact serious insurance reforms and tort reforms. Allow us to buy insurance across state lines. Limit unreasonable law suites. Require that small businesses and individuals be allowed access to group rates, unfettered by pre existing conditions, as are the employees of large companies. After all, small businesses and individuals make up a much larger group, in total, than even the largest fortune 100 company. In the video Governor Ritter included with his request, Thomas' mom says "We've always gotten excellent health care." It is because of our fine health care system that Thomas is alive and well today. I pray that we will keep well intentioned but misguided politicians like Governor Ritter & President Obama from destroying our health care system through crippling regulations and unfair government sponsored competition. Make no mistake about it. While the current proposal may not "require" companies to strip employees of the insurance they now have, it will strongly encourage many companies to do so, and those companies will then "require" their employees to change to the public option. If “health care reform” passes in anything close to its current form, this will be another example demonstrating that, as President Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the answer. Government is the problem.” God bless Thomas, his family, our governor, our president, and our law makers. Please encourage your readers to let the men and women we’ve elected know that they are expected to do what is right, by preserving our "excellent health care" system, and backing away from the lies that some politions are foisting on the people they have been elected to serve. John Gaudio,
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