letter to Congressman Mack

Dear Congressman Mack:

I am writing you because of the recent survey mailing I received from you regarding health care reform. While I think surveys are an appropriate way to gauge the feeling of the population, I am continually disappointed by the way the surveys have leading questions. This will skew the results of the survey and render it effectively useless. You cannot call yourself a representative of our area if you only listen to the people whose views reinforce your own. You must take all the views that your constituents have into consideration when making decisions that affect each and every one of us.

While I understand your concerns with an increasingly larger role of government, and even agree in some circumstances, it is my firm belief that a country must care for its citizens. That is one of the hallmarks of a healthy society. If we had a government run health care system, you say that we would be giving up our care to a bureaucrat instead of our doctors. I think our current system already has bureaucrats with power over our doctors—they are called for-profit insurance agents, HMOs, and pharmaceutical companies. I would much rather our government, who is democratically elected in the interest of representing their constituents’ interests, be involved in my health care than a person who has no such ties to us and instead is out to make as much money as possible to please stakeholders.

Regards,

ReneVague3