From the mailbag

As you might imagine, even though I don't have a vote on the healthcare debate in Washington, many area residents think I do. I'm probably receiving a half dozen calls and e-mails each day on the issue. Here's the latest:

I have worked at ******* for 10 years now. Three years ago my husband had to have [surgery] and was placed on Plavix. Now my [employer's insurance] has decided to stop paying for Plavix, Crestor and a number of other name brand drugs. We had very little warning. A lot of people work just for the health care and now it will not provide what they need.

Plavix will cost me $170 a month, but he has to have it. The only way we can see to be able to keep buying his medication is if we both stop taking other medication we need.

Now the government is talking socialized medicine. Yeah right. If the government keeps chopping away at the working class Americans, who will survive to keep paying for all this crap?

NOT HAPPY VOTER!

As an outside observer, all I see from the first two paragraphs is a family who desperately needs help with the costs of healthcare. When you put in 40 hours per week simply for health care, something's not right, and if anyone could sympathize with the argument that the current model is not sustainable, it should be her. When the national Dems are losing families like this, it ain't a good sign.