Cut lawmakers' insurance

Did you watch Channel 27's 6 p.m. news Oct. 23?

A report described a woman being treated for ovarian cancer. Her husband lost his job. They could not afford health insurance. The only option that brave husband had was to join the Army so she would have insurance.

After basic training, he probably will be sent to a country where we have no business being instead of being here helping his wife through her terrible disease. Our own country is desperately in need of getting rid of our warlords - the gas, drug and insurance companies that are strangling us.

Our last president ruined our country so much we might never recover to what we were before. I thought leaders in our country had been trying 17 years to get health insurance for our U.S. citizens, but I was told President Theodore Roosevelt wanted health insurance for citizens when he was in office.

I think the only way to get health insurance passed is to take health insurance away from all our legislators so they can be on the same level as their destitute constituents. It is easy to say you are trying, but really you aren't until you are affected.

Is there a way to put the elimination of legislators' health insurance on a ballot next spring? They make a lot more money than most of us, so let them also pay their own insurance or go without.

Our citizens deserve a lot more than they are getting. Someone speculated that our economy was on the rise, so gas prices rose by leaps and bounds. Gas companies are determined to keep hurting our economy growth. What makes them think we want to use our money on gas? They have been robbing us for years. Please stop hurting the hand that feeds you.

Elvera Hintz, Oxford