The American Spectator

Okay, folks. The joke is over. We get it. We’ve all had a good laugh. Now, would you please, PLEASE dump Graham when he comes up for re-election? He’s turning out to be nothing more than another copy of the two girls from Maine.

The country can’t take any more of this. Only you can spare the rest of us from this fool.
— Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon

If Fox News puts this charlatan on as a representative of Republicans and conservatives one more time, I’m going to kill my TV set.

Then I’m going to dispatch a very nasty e-mail to Roger Ailes.

Lindsey Graham needs to be removed … … .  NOW!
— Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio

PRESIDENT STEIN
Re: Ben Stein’s We’ve Figured Him Out:

All I can say is thank God for Ben Stein. Maybe he should run for president. He is trying to open the gate of knowledge for those who voted for Obama and now see the beginning of what could be the end. Mr. Stein is a man that stands up for the people and is not afraid of speaking the truth — the truth that the American people are now privy to. What a shame, we, myself not included, voted for a president that has never shown any proof of credentials. Wake up America!!! Mr. Stein, I commend you for the courage to speak out. My prayers are with you and also with this country.
— Patricia Gibbons

I am a great admirer of Ben Stein and concur in his projections. I am a U.K. medical graduate (1949) and experienced first hand the lies and deceit in promises made by the Labour Government  under Clement  Attlee and the Min. of Health Aneurin Bevan.

One statement in particular remains in my memory spoken by Bevan at a meeting in 1948 before the passage of the National  Health Bill i.e., “this Bill will ensure that no one will fall below this net” — as experience showed “this  became a ceiling above which no one  could rise.”

The ultimate event was the establishment of a private insurance program  with private care facilities to counter the unacceptable delays and missed opportunities to get early care I know from personal family experience with a Mother whose early Cancer of the  Gall  Bladder is on display at the Royal College of Surgeons museum in London as the “First totally encapsulated Carcinoma  recorded since the onset of NHI  some 30 years before.”

God help us in theavoidance of this type calamity in our future.
— Harold Passes
Bethesda, Maryland

NO FREE LUNCH
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Who Will Tell Michael J. Fox He Needs To Die?:

To my mind, there are two immediate and relatively inexpensive (compared to Obamacare) solutions to the health care fiasco.

First and most obvious is tort reform. Case in point: John Edwards became a multimillionaire by
pressing frivolous law suits against health care professionals and their insurance companies.
Since he was relatively easy to look at, he was able to convince a multitude of juries to help make
him rich. Remember, the lion’s share of jury awards in such suits goes to the lawyers, not the “aggrieved” plaintiffs; hence the term ambulance chaser.

Secondly, years ago, most communities had hospitals run by some level of government. These
hospitals provided free clinics where the poor and indigent could get reasonable basic health care, usually without long waits, at minimal cost to the patient. Some of these clinics even provided dental care! When the hospitals were privatized and became profit centers, prices soared and reasonably priced health care in the form of clinics disappeared.