SHUTDOWN: Idaho should speak up

I appreciated the letter Wednesday which detailed some of the many benefits of the new health-care law.

Congressman Raul Labrador is one of the key 20 House members who don’t want the health-care law, passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court, to succeed even though Republicans supported something similar when it was their idea.

Please take a look for yourself. Then if you find that you disagree with your congressman, do call or write asking him to end the federal government shutdown. You have the power, and it is costing Idaho too much to continue the shutdown. It is not the way laws are made, or changed.

JEAN WAIGHT

Bellingham, Wash.