Linda A. Thomas – 9/7/08

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Politics and patients’ care; Linda A. Thomas, R.N.; Beaver County Times; September 7, 2008.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“This letter is in reference to Thursday’s letter written by Patrick W. Sturm, M.D., stating that the visit by the junior senator from the distant state of Illinois to Beaver was disruptive and that he was prevented from seeing his frail, elderly patients who could not breathe.”

[RWC] For what it’s worth, I considered Mr. Sturm’s letter to be pretty lame, but read on.

“I believe that the time of day that the junior senator visited that he should have already visited his frail elderly patients. And from where his office is located, there are other ways to get to the Medical Center than the main street of Beaver.”

[RWC] The Sturm letter never mentioned the Medical Center. As a result, I assumed Mr. Sturm meant it was difficult for his patients to get to his office for their appointments. Does Ms. Thomas know something not mentioned in the subject letter or is she misrepresenting the letter?

“I’ll bet if it was the senior senator from Arizona who would have visited that Sturm would not have complained because the senior senator from Arizona wants to make the tax cuts on the rich permanent and the junior senator from Illinois wants them lifted after 2010.”

[RWC] Ms. Thomas was mostly doing OK up to this point, but then she went off the tracks and straight into class warfare and a leftist talking point. As has been noted time and time again, all taxpayers received tax rate cuts – not just “the rich” – and “the rich” now pay a greater portion of federal income taxes than they did before the rate cuts.