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Dear Editor:
The Lincoln/Logan County Development Partnership board
supports the public safety tax increase. At a time when we are
working diligently to acquire jobs for the people of Logan
County, we stand the chance of losing 22 to 24 county jobs and
all of the services those jobs provide to the citizens of
Logan County. County officials have convinced this board of
the need for the sales tax increase.
Our board's mission is to encourage and provide economic
development in Logan County. We have an excellent chance of
creating hundreds of good, new jobs for the unemployed,
underemployed and underpaid folks in this county. We must have
an adequate county support system to make economic development
successful.
Please vote "yes" for the public safety tax.
Ron Schilling, president
Dr. Dan Freesmeier, vice president
Bobbi Abbott, treasurer
Lincoln and Logan Development Partnership
(Posted April 2, 2005)
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Dear Editor:
Senate Democratic leaders thumbed their
noses at Illinois citizens March 17, reneging on their promise to
allow a vote on comprehensive medical malpractice reform legislation
aimed at keeping doctors in Illinois.
Despite strong opposition by members
of the Senate Republican Caucus, the Senate Democratic leadership
moved
Senate Bill 150 from the Judiciary Committee, which was
expected to vote on the bill March 17, to the highly political
Executive Committee, where the future of the legislation is bleak.
This blatantly political move is
just another indication that Democratic leaders are pandering to
special interests at the expense of health care for the people of
Illinois. How many more doctors have to leave Illinois before
Democratic leaders get serious about this crisis?
The Illinois State Medical Society
has plenty of examples about doctors leaving our state. Since 2003,
at least 160 doctors have moved or have announced they are moving
out of St. Clair and Madison counties because of the medical
litigation crisis -- and that's just two of 102 counties in
Illinois!
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 Because there are currently no
neurosurgeons treating head trauma patients south of Springfield,
head trauma patients must be airlifted to another part of the state
or to another state entirely. A woman in Danville who needs
pulmonary care now has to travel to Indiana or Champaign for care,
because there are no pulmonologists left in Vermilion County. In
January, an Alton-area mother-to-be had to find a new obstetrician
-- the third during the course of her pregnancy -- because her first
two doctors moved out of state to escape the adverse and costly
litigation climate.
The fight is far from over, however.
Just like last year, I will continue to work with my Senate
Republican colleagues to put together a balanced legislative package
of legal reforms, medical reforms and insurance reforms.
Sincerely,
Bill
Brady
44th District state senator
(Posted April 2, 2005)
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