If you're looking for presidential whoppers...

  LETTER TO THE EDITOR   

Patience needed on health law

I'm not sure where "You can keep your policy, period," ranks among presidential whoppers.  The competition is pretty steep:

"I am not a crook."

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

"Weapons of mass destruction."

"Mission accomplished."

"Enhanced interrogation methods."

History can be the judge.

I do know that our president started with the most expensive and least effective health care system in the industrialized world and has been trying to make it better.

With insurance, a flu shot is better than an emergency room visit, a mammogram can save a life, a blood test can prevent diabetes.

Without insurance, people suffer and die while we pay the costs.

A little patience and open-mindedness might help us all.

Ralph Atchue
Eloy

(The above letter originally appeared in the Nov. 21 Arizona Republic, the Rim Country's best newspaper value.  For home delivery, call 1-800-332-6733.  Because the news happens seven days a week.  The big Thanksgiving Day issue is on my lap as I write - biggest issue of the year.  You could be enjoying it too.)