Health coverage helps all facets of kids’ lives
I support of Gov.-elect Mike Dewine’s Office of Children’s Initiatives and hope he follows through on the additional $200 million needed in the next two years to maintain the current enrollment in Ohio’s Children’s Health Insurance Program. This is a small price to pay for insuring our state’s underserved youth.
Access to health insurance for kids also helps improve the health of their families. Funding for the health care of Ohio’s underserved children is necessary if we expect kids who are socioeconomically disadvantaged to be able to focus on their education and other aspects of their development that will allow them to become productive, fulfilled adults who will contribute positively to our state’s economy.
It is good to see that Ohio was ranked in the bottom half of states when ranked by rates of uninsured children in 2017. It is imperative we maintain this ranking or improve it by increasing funding to Ohio’s CHIP. Michael Scheipe, Columbus the reigning socialist organ in the village. The newspaper might like to support another tax — in this case on newspapers.
I think everyone should have to pay another dollar per newspaper, to be distributed to people who want to print things, but can’t make it go due to lack of interest. Just like the entertainment tax supports people who can’t make a living because no one cares about their art, the publishing tax would help promote all sorts of marginal views.
We could extend the incompetent-redistribution idea to all sorts of businesses: a house-painter tax, an insurance-policy tax, a lawnmowing tax! Cool, eh?
Next year we’ll stick with Otterbein’s symphony or those not intent on gouging us for their nebulous “arts” fix. At the final toot, it’s all music to the ear. Not sure about Shostakovich, though. Gregory Froehle, Westerville
case for the uselessness of such a wall, how would this push Senate Republicans to temper Trump’s worst impulses, as the editorial suggested?
Giving him what he wants after a colossal temper tantrum will only teach Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and others to yield to Trump’s demands, however unreasonable they might be.
Zeb Larson, Columbus