Exciting vote on health care

I am so excited that our representative in the U. S. House of Representatives voted in support of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. I know it took courage to resist the incredible pressures from the health care industry, which is very strong in North Carolina.

We all need to have this bill pass. I feel so lucky that we have good insurance, but we have seen first-hand though out son the high costs for low coverage when you are a contract worker just starting out on your own.

I know many other will thank Rep. Price, too, but I just want to thank him for supporting this bill and by doing it strengthening our poorer and working citizens of North Carolina.

SUZANNE HAFF

Chapel Hill

Voters' preference

I am writing this letter to personally thank Rep. David Price for voting for the most important piece of national legislation in my lifetime. Health insurance reform and basic health care for all Americans is at long last on it's way to becoming a reality.

The challenge now is for our senators to acknowledge the clear preference of the voters who put them in office and to throw their support behind this landmark bill. Those that do will assuredly be acknowledged both by the voters of North Carolina as well as by history as having done the right thing for the country, while those that obstruct the passage of this bill will not.

The time for timidity is long since past, and only those who put aside their personal agenda and special interests of the few and instead put the good of the entire country first and foremost, should be reelected. Those that work to obstruct for no reason other than political calculation should face the contempt and wrath of those that they represent in the next election.

LARRY TOLLEN

Durham

Most not rich

I want to thank Rep. David Price for voting for the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act. This is truly an historic moment for health care in America.

Anyone who would vote against it would be voting against him-/herself and their own families, and who can afford to do that except the rich. Most of us are not rich and we need to be protected from those who would literally wish us ill. I hope those senators who plan not to vote for this bill will put their selfish desires aside and think about the reality of the people they are supposed to represent.

Many constituents are grossly misinformed about this bill because deliberate falsehoods continue to be spread throughout all the media outlets. So, please everybody -- get informed about the truth of what's in this bill and ask your senators to vote the most robust bill possible in that chamber it, and thereby, for you and the future of your health and that of your loved ones.

MARTHA VAN NOPPEN

Durham

Moral obligation

The U. S. House of Representatives bill passed over this weekend is a step in the right direction. Good and basic health care should be a right to all Americans.

This makes sense economically because we are all paying, indirectly through high premiums, for those without health insurance. Providing health insurance to the less fortunate would be economically more efficient. Moreover, it is a moral obligation to ensure that the less fortunate have access to health care.

REGINALD MOMBRUN

Durham