To The Editor:

This is an open letter to Rep. Connie Mack following a local guest opinion in the local media.

Preach your point quickly, Rep. Mack, about the bailouts, as you have a disappearing argument. Why?

The banks have started to repay the federal government.

Now is exactly the time for all Americans to reject the status quo …. 10,000 people a day are losing their health care.

Now is the time to get the 46 million uninsured into a plan.

Now is the time to even the playing field for the under-insured.

Now is the time to insure those who have pre- existing illnesses.

Now is the time to end extreme medical costs causing 60 percent of bankruptcies.

I dispute Rep. Mack’s statement that the proposed plan will allow: government takeover of the entire health care system, government plan will equal higher taxes, government mandates, government control of private lives.

Are those just more misinformation or are these just more fear tactics as we have seen for the past eight years?

Our standard of living is ranked 13th in the world. Increased health care costs contribute greatly to reducing the American standard of living.

The more money you pay for health care, the less you have to spend on anything else.

The last eight years’ deficits and the creative, supplemental accounting of deficits, give Connie Mack, who voted for all of the above little room to criticize the facts, not yet in evidence.

The only part of Rep. Mack’s opinion, I find value in, is a need for some tort reform. Reduction of frivolous suits is needed.

Rep. Mack was elected to represent all the people in the U.S. House in District 14 in Florida. He does not want a town hall meeting because he would hear from all the people.

How many in this district can not afford health care.

How many are out of work; how many have lost their homes?

Joan Patterson

Lehigh Acres