Letters to the Editor

Health insurance
So, Mr. Atkinson is pleased with the Affordable Care Act and has expressed that opinion several times. Well, Mr Atkinson, let me tell you that I am standing right behind you! I am pleased that my adult children across the nation now has health care for the first time in decades; pleased that ‘prior conditions’ are no longer a barrier to health insurance; pleased that young people can stay on their parents’ policies; and delighted with preventive care. Getting that law passed and implemented was an achievement of historic proportions. My thanks, on a daily basis, go to Obama, Pelosi and all the people who fought and voted and stood firm to pass this act, and to the State of California that had implementation plans in place when the law was passed. Of course, a change of this enormity has bumps. They will be worked out over time. I am all smiles.
Kirsten Sullivan
Cloverdale