Future;

You are correct about higher water usage for solar power plants vs. nuclear power, which is a high temperature, high pressure cycle. However, air cooling is possible with solar power plants and should be used in the desert environment. There is a higher capital cost and it will affect plant efficiency a bit, but it is a more responsible use of resources.

The other option is to use photovoltaics. The only water required for them is for an occasional wash down, so obviously it is much lower than nuclear. Prices for these have been coming down (I recently heard of a $1/Watt claim) and there have been some advances in efficiency of photovoltaics in recent years (specifically Hitachi claiming 16% and up to 20% with some reflected light to the back).

For the millionth time, so that the slow learning Republican Teas Baggers and idiots like List get it.

Yes, a poor person can go to an emergency room and get emergency care...HOWEVER, they will have to sign a document stating that they are responsible for paying the bill...and when they can't they have to go bankrupt to get out of paying. This is one reason why we have such a large number of bankruptcy claims in the U.S. for medical reasons. Medical bankrupcy is unheard of in the rest of the developed world.

Good Letter Linda. It never ceases to amaze me how the corporate interests and their stooge representative Republicans (Ensign, Heller, and the like) can talk the lower class Republicans out of voting for thier own interests. Guns, Religion and FOX are all it takes for these people.

I agree with you mostly Birdiedreamin. However, most doctors are also victims in this. They are also squeezed by the insurance companies. An think of how frustrating it must be to have an insurance company stooge whos job is to come between you and your patient and deny a health care benefit that you have ordered solely on the basis of corporate greed!

Are you talking about the same Ronald Regan who sold weapons to our then enemy Iran (who had months before held our diplomats hostage)to fund an illegal war in Central America using the convicted criminal Oliver North? That Ronald Regan or some other mythical one?

What idiots. Do you enjoy being denied procedures and drugs by the health care companies against the wishes of your doctors? Your hatred of this president has blinded you to the fact that your helth care is compromised by these health care companies solely for their profit.

We should revoke the tax exempt status of all churches and religious organizations, then we don't have to decide which is a valid religion. Also, why should non-believers subsidize the religion of others through paying additional taxes to cover what the churches don't pay?

The hospital should have a rate increase also.

Why isn't the great job that Harry Reid has been doing on health care the last few days front page news in the Review Journal?

The RJ's silence is deafening!

The fact is that those on the right, including the present Republican Party have always been willing to trade peoples lives for profits. We see this in recent history in the Iraq war, where they used our military in an ateempt to steal oil as well as lucrative government contracts for there friends. We are now seeing it in the health care debate where they want to maintain insurance company profits at the cost of patients lives.