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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   HAVE YOUR SAY Feel strongly about something? Share it with the community by writing a letter to the editor. You’ll need to include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We’ll only publish your name and hometown.) We reserve the right to edit letters, but if you keep yours to 250 words or less, we won’t ask you to shorten it. If your letter is published, please wait 30 days before submitting another. Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Fax: 425-339-3458 Have a question about letters? Contact Carol MacPherson (cmacpherson@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3472).   Published: Thursday, September 3, 2009 HEALTH CARE Town hall timing adds to frustration Could it have been coincidence that Sunday's town hall meeting was scheduled at the same time as a school football game at Edmonds-Woodway High? Coincidence also that very many opponents of Rep. Inslee constituents are elderly? I am one of them. I arrived by auto at the school at 12:30 for the 1:30 meeting. I am a disabled veteran, and there were no disabled parking spots open. I could not walk the three or more blocks to get to the meeting. I feel I have been denied my right to be heard in a public forum. I did notice as I drove around the parking lot that the entrance was blocked by tables and a banner of the "Socialist Workers Party." Many young people were trying to hand out professionally-made signs saying "single payer now," "public option now," "health care now." A large handmade sign said "Republicans -- do you have no shame?" Does this indicates where Rep. Inslee's support comes from? A Monday morning Herald article says Rep. Inslee will urge a public option. He must know that private health care cannot compete in the long-term with a government program that writes the rules, and has unlimited funds from we, the bankrupt taxpayers. Dave Link Edmonds

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