Health care and campaign finance

I am so tired of paying for the health care for the 20 percent of those who don't pay for it. The 20 percent who don't pay for insurance make it more expensive for you and me especially by going to the emergency room when they have a baby, an asthma problem or fall off their four-wheeler.

I am a 57-year-old blue-collar worker who has sat in on company meetings of 20 to 20,000 employees being offering insurance, and a lot of employees don't sign up. My jobs have been in construction, property maintenance and cable TV.

I looking forward to the day everyone has to pay in to what I've spent tens of thousands of dollars into over the decades.

In my opinion, the medical mafia needs to be taken down. The hospital asks the insurance company how much to bill for an aspirin and the insurance company says $10. So what's honest with that?

Now days, this country is owned by corporations who can (since last year) spend unlimited money for politicians that in turn owe big business to get elected.

What happened to a government "by the people, for the people"? Now it's by corporations, for corporations.

I'll be surprised if we last longer than Rome.

PAUL HERZBERGER, Cape Girardeau