In response to Jane Jenkins, “Start thinking for yourself:” Really! Five days waiting in the emergency room? I have heard many of these wild, ridiculous claims over the past several years in arguing against health care reform. Do you just hear these claims and believe them as fact?

Those that are against health care reform, that would rather have the insurance companies, hospitals with their immoral pricing practices, and the pharmaceutical companies’ thievery pricing practices, continue to run over consumers in pursuit of the almighty dollar, continue to make these outrageous claims such as the “five days sitting in the ER waiting to be seen,” claims that only the naive and gullible take as fact and then run shouting it to whomever will listen, is not exactly “thinking for themselves.”

We all need to use common sense and rational thinking in our political views or the fear-mongering, misrepresentation and outright lies of the bullies on the right will seem as fact. We really need to think for ourselves and stop taking every outrageous statement as fact. The most important thing is looking out for us all, not the 5 percent most elite by checking for fact first.

Ray Powell

Terrebonne