Letters: Buffalo Shootings, Va. Attorney General
Robert Siegel and Melissa Block read from listeners' e-mails.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
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Time now for your comments on yesterday's program, starting with my interview with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. He's one of a dozen or so state attorneys general who plan to challenge the new health-care law. In particular, he takes issue with the idea that Congress can force Americans to buy health insurance.
BLOCK: Listener Maria Gansheraff(ph) of Vancouver, Washington, sees things differently. She writes: You don't want to buy health insurance? Fine. If you come to the ER in my state, you had better have proof of insurance or cash immediately available to pay for treatment.
SIEGEL: Stephanie Bader of Tucson, Arizona, had similar thoughts. She writes: If Virginia elects not to participate in this piece of the federal health care program, they should not be able to participate in or receive funding for other federal health benefits. Bader concludes: Let the state of Virginia pay the emergency room bills for their uninsured, I shouldn't have to.
BLOCK: Now, to our report on the shooting of 51 buffalo in west Texas. The buffalo were considered game on the QB Hunting Ranch, but they were shot by the owner of a neighboring ranch after they escaped through a fence. David Mumpa(ph) of San Antonio didn't like the attitude of the hunting ranch's owner. He writes: Apparently, killing 51 animals is only an unjust slaughter if you can't first charge someone $3,500 a head. Even worse is his insinuation that he is in the right because he considers himself politically connected.
SIEGEL: Monty Bouse(ph) writes from Columbus, Ohio: If two ranchers in west Texas cannot work together as good neighbors for the sake of their livestock and their community, I now see how it is impossible for the House and the Senate, the Democrats and the Republicans, to work together to do anything constructive for the sake of their country. And Bouse concludes: Why do I feel like a lonely bison?
BLOCK: We can't answer that, Mr. Bouse, but please keep your letters coming. Go to NPR.org, and click on Contact Us.
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