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Parental rights amendment fights United Nations tyranny
There is an amendment going through congress called the “Parental Rights Amendment.” This legislation says: “The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right. Neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served. No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.”
This amendment will protect us from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which overrides all laws in all countries that sign it (and which Obama is determined to sign). It removes the parent's right to raise his child as he sees fit.
There is no example of a reduction of child abuse in those countries that have signed, but there ARE examples of the U.N. forcing these countries to change their school systems, child protective service policies and religious freedoms. This is a direct attack on all parents' rights to raise their children.
If you don't have the right to raise your child your way, you have no freedom at all; only an illusion.
Mr. Heller is one of the co-sponsors of the PRA. Thank you, sir, for protecting me from the tyranny of the U.N.
And to our other congressmen: Why aren't you protecting me, too?
BETTY SUE TRACY
Dayton
GOP takes on new meaning these days
To Sen. John Ensign ... the Promise Keeper?
The conservative, Republican Party, after 1980, has morphed from the GOP (Grand Old Party) to the gop (Greedy Old Perverts ).
These people are the biggest and worst bunch of hypocrites, liars, thieves and greedy bums since the robber barons of the 1800s.
Ensign says he won't resign, so let's throw him out. Not so much due to the affair, but due to the extra money (our taxpayer money) given to the woman as well as to her son. This, I find, unconscionable and should be criminal if it is not.
Anyone who would stay loyal to these worthless bums and continue to vote for them is not playing with a full deck!
Vince Agamenone
Carson City
Knee treatment issues deserves more attention
It has been a long and heated discussion, but prolotherapy vs. the knee replacement has been a subject of Medicare and medical industry debate for years.
Prolotherapy is injections in the knee whereas a knee replacement is just that, i.e. the knee will be replaced and plastic and or metal inserted in its place. The cost for such an operation is $20,000 plus, per knee vs. $250 each time you see a physician for prolotherapy shots. For the $20,000 plus per knee, Medicare reimburses you for the entire amount, yet for prolotherapy you pay out of your own pocket.
It makes no sense at all as 200,000 patients have received knee replacement at a cost to Medicare of about $20,000 plus per knee. At that cost, 200,000 plus patients have caused the government to spend about $40 million.
It is more than likely a person could get by with six to eight injections at the very most using prolotherapy. That would mean an expenditure of about $2,000 per patient, or $18,000 less than Medicare would pay for a knee replacement.
It doesn't make sense to the writer and all those taking prolotherapy. Why doesn't the government pay for prolotherapy when they could be saving millions of dollars and encourage more physicians to get into prolotherapy?
This is another health issue the Obama administration has to deal with. It is an issue that will not go away and needs early recognition and settlement.
Judging the Obama administration by its track record in health care to date, it seems that another black mark is in the offing.
L. A. da Costa, Jr.
Minden
There is an amendment going through congress called the “Parental Rights Amendment.” This legislation says: “The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right. Neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served. No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.”
This amendment will protect us from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which overrides all laws in all countries that sign it (and which Obama is determined to sign). It removes the parent's right to raise his child as he sees fit.
There is no example of a reduction of child abuse in those countries that have signed, but there ARE examples of the U.N. forcing these countries to change their school systems, child protective service policies and religious freedoms. This is a direct attack on all parents' rights to raise their children.
If you don't have the right to raise your child your way, you have no freedom at all; only an illusion.
Mr. Heller is one of the co-sponsors of the PRA. Thank you, sir, for protecting me from the tyranny of the U.N.
And to our other congressmen: Why aren't you protecting me, too?
BETTY SUE TRACY
Dayton
GOP takes on new meaning these days
To Sen. John Ensign ... the Promise Keeper?
The conservative, Republican Party, after 1980, has morphed from the GOP (Grand Old Party) to the gop (Greedy Old Perverts ).
These people are the biggest and worst bunch of hypocrites, liars, thieves and greedy bums since the robber barons of the 1800s.
Ensign says he won't resign, so let's throw him out. Not so much due to the affair, but due to the extra money (our taxpayer money) given to the woman as well as to her son. This, I find, unconscionable and should be criminal if it is not.
Anyone who would stay loyal to these worthless bums and continue to vote for them is not playing with a full deck!
Vince Agamenone
Carson City
Knee treatment issues deserves more attention
It has been a long and heated discussion, but prolotherapy vs. the knee replacement has been a subject of Medicare and medical industry debate for years.
Prolotherapy is injections in the knee whereas a knee replacement is just that, i.e. the knee will be replaced and plastic and or metal inserted in its place. The cost for such an operation is $20,000 plus, per knee vs. $250 each time you see a physician for prolotherapy shots. For the $20,000 plus per knee, Medicare reimburses you for the entire amount, yet for prolotherapy you pay out of your own pocket.
It makes no sense at all as 200,000 patients have received knee replacement at a cost to Medicare of about $20,000 plus per knee. At that cost, 200,000 plus patients have caused the government to spend about $40 million.
It is more than likely a person could get by with six to eight injections at the very most using prolotherapy. That would mean an expenditure of about $2,000 per patient, or $18,000 less than Medicare would pay for a knee replacement.
It doesn't make sense to the writer and all those taking prolotherapy. Why doesn't the government pay for prolotherapy when they could be saving millions of dollars and encourage more physicians to get into prolotherapy?
This is another health issue the Obama administration has to deal with. It is an issue that will not go away and needs early recognition and settlement.
Judging the Obama administration by its track record in health care to date, it seems that another black mark is in the offing.
L. A. da Costa, Jr.
Minden
