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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 13, 2009

Good Care In Canada

Here we go again, knocking Canada's Health Care. (Thomas Sowell, "Health Care Frauds," Jan. 10)

But frauds? The Fraser Institute, quoted, is a conservative think tank supported by wealthy foundations and big business. They are for less government control in everything, including guns and global warming. Even they say, "An estimated 0.8 percent of the population avail themselves of U.S. health care, elective surgery mostly. They say perhaps 32,000, not "tens of thousands."

I can only reiterate my experience: timely, quality, life-saving surgery immediately when required. I am not poor, but $600 monthly for health care premiums is certainly beyond me, and I would not have had coverage. Thank goodness for Canada's health plan.

P. DAVIES

Angus, Ontario

Unfair To President Bush

Just when I begin to think that the Tribune's editorial-page bunch is trying to be fair and balanced, you print garbage like the article on President Bush ("Bush's Days Of Judgment," Views, Jan. 11). If one were to ask the Trib to honestly name the three most liberally biased, anti-Bush, anti-Republican newspapers in the world, the answer would be The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Their bias is obviously reflected in the article, which, as a result, is filled with inaccuracies and exaggerations. They are too numerous to even begin to address.

No, this was no fair and balanced effort; this was a hatchet job on Bush. And you guys are wondering why you are losing readership?

You can't get away with publishing such tripe in a county peopled with newspaper readers capable of responsible thought.

PAUL S. FRAPPOLLO

Odessa

Forget Football Playoff
Now that the college football season is over, I hope that the media commentators and sports writers will give up the annual harangue about having a playoff. What these people, including the president-elect, fail to grasp is that many of the college schedules, once 10 games in length, now span 12 or 13 games if conference championships are mandated.

A top-8 or even top-4 BCS standing would require a team to play possibly two or three additional games.

This arrangement flies in the face of NCAA standards. The undue emphasis on athletics while sacrificing academics and exposing young contestants to potential bodily injury from prolonged play is not worth the price to paid for a symbolic and ethereal national championship title.

EARL A. MYERS JR.

Tampa

Bush Is Winning The War

Amid all your NBC polls and Bush-bashing articles, think of this: History judges a war-time president by whether his nation wins the war, and we are winning the war against global terrorism.

CATHY STARNES

Plant City

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