ACA addressing healthcare injustice
Published 8:08 am Thursday, March 20, 2014
Dear Editor,
“With liberty and justice for all.” Those words should not ring hollow. For us to have justice in our society requires us to identify injustice when we see it and to do something about it. We saw this in the 1960’s when black Americans were finally guaranteed the right to vote.
Over the past 40 years we have seen tens of millions of Americans slowly cut out of access to affordable healthcare, not out of malice as in the case of voting rights, but simply through neglect. Healthcare, once available to everyone, priced itself out of the reach of an increasing number of Americans. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) attempts to address this injustice.
Rob Thompson
Tonasket
About Gary DeVon
Gary DeVon is the managing editor of the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and celebrated his 25th year at the newspaper in August 2012. He graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in Communications - Print Journalism, with an emphasis in photojournalism. He is a proud alumnus of Oroville High School. His family first settled in Okanogan County in the late 1800s. His parents are Judy DeVon and the late Larry DeVon and he has two younger brothers - Dante and Michael. Many family members still call Oroville home. He has a grown daughter, Segornae Douglas and a young granddaughter, Erin.
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