Pubdate: Tue, 26 Jul 2005
Source: Statesman Journal (Salem, OR)
Copyright: 2005 Statesman Journal
Contact:  http://www.statesmanjournal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/427
Author: Helen Pendergraft

SOCIETY PAYS FOR BEING LENIENT ON METH MAKERS

Oregon lawmakers should stop slapping the hands of meth makers and 
give them harsher punishments.

I think it's wrong to make it so people have to get a prescription 
for cold medications. The people who make the meth need to be locked 
up and the key thrown away.

All this law will do is punish people who don't make meth. So what 
will happen is people are going to have to pay more health-care 
co-pays just to get a prescription to help take care of a cold.

People who don't have health care are going to go to the emergency 
rooms and rack up health-care costs that they can't afford, which 
others will have to foot the bill on. For what? Just so they can feel better.

Oregon lawmakers need to make better laws like finding out more about 
teachers who are actual sex offenders teaching our children; or 
better yet, find a way to fix the Oregon Health Plan so costs of 
health care stop rising.

- -- Helen Pendergraft

Salem
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