Health care bill

too complicated

I have a Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, published 1990, with 1,716 pages. I use it daily but have not read every page.

The Internal Revenue Service sent me 1040 Forms and Instructions 2008, 92 pages plus about 20 pages of instructions for various schedules so I could read it and prepare my tax return. I’ve heard many people say it is too complicated; and they leave the job to a tax preparer.

Now the government is using 1,990 pages to write a health care bill. How can we understand what is hidden in four reams of paper? Do the people who are voting (representing us) understand it? Will they abandon their elite coverage and use the same plan we will get?

A long time ago, I was taught to read and think before I sign. We must ask our government to do the same — in 20 pages or less — please.

Go to the dictionary and find legalese: Incomprehensible to the layman; and buffalo: vt. (slang) to baffle, bewilder, bluff or overawe. Am I a country bumpkin?

Mary Ann Barkey

Camden



Kokomo dentist

helps shelter

Hats off to Dr. John Ladd! 

Dr. Ladd of Kokomo’s Ladd Dental Group has again donated Halloween candy to the Emmaus Homeless Shelter in Logansport.

Dr. Ladd offered $1 per pound for Halloween candy to encourage his young patients to cut back on their candy intake. (Most parents declined the $1.) The donated candy will be used for treats or sale by the shelter.

Also, a group of residents traveled to Kokomo for treatment at his recent all-day free clinic for people lacking dental insurance.

Charlie Short

Kokomo