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Conservatives screamed socialism for decades whenever a national health care plan was proposed. Now that we have one, they want to put their names on it, but dont have the courage to make the needed improvements.

It is good to remember that all social programs underwent similar struggles Social Security, Medicaid, Food Stamps, the G.I. Bill. Those programs, like the ACA, are now valued parts of our American culture. Here are a few more of those hard-fought-for government socialist programs we Americans now take for granted.

A sampling of current Government social programs:

Head Start

Social Security Disability

Social Security Retirement and Survivors Benefits

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Medicare Welfare (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or T.A.N.F.)

Veterans benefits

Pell Grants

Unemployment Insurance

Government Subsidized Housing

Home Mortgage Interest Deduction

Hope and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits

Child and Dependent Care Tax Credits

Education savings accounts (Education I.R.A.s)

Earned-income tax credits

Employer subsidized health insurance

Employer subsidized retirement benefits

Federal student loans

I believe we will have a good national health care program one day, but only if our representatives remain focused on the primary objective, which is affordable health care for all of us citizens. It will, however, require them to spend less time on disingenuous posturing for the benefit of the wealthy and more time doing the job we pay them for. They need to know, they either get er done, or we will fire them as we would any inept employee.

Harry Barnes

East Meredith

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In Your Opinion: Government programs shouldn't be criticized for 'socialism' - Oneonta Daily Star