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3 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » NEWS NOW Stouts fire threatening homes; expected to explode again ... Cable Crossing fire near Glide burns 830 acres ... SOCIAL MEDIA: Stouts fire photos, videos ... Stouts fire threatening homes; expected to explode again ... Cable Crossing fire near Glide burns 830 acres ... SOCIAL MEDIA: Stouts fire photos, videos ... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor, July 29 MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jul. 29, 2015 @ 12:01 am Posted Jul. 29, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> Medicaid turns 50 July 30 marks the 50th year since President Lyndon B. Johnson gave birth to the federal and state health care partnership called Medicaid. In 1965, as today, it was designed to provide health care for people who are most vulnerable. Today, the program provides health care to one in every five Americans. As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I see the critical importance of Medicaid most especially here in Jackson County. For 50 years Medicaid has filled the gaps in health coverage that often occurs, and helped them transition through life events that would otherwise leave them uninsured. This lifeline has been there when people lose their jobs, have children with disabilities, and when seniors and their families face the need for long-term services and supports. In fact, nearly two-thirds of Americans have either benefited directly from Medicaid or have a family member or friend who has. One in five people with Medicare also rely on Medicaid to cover the things Medicare doesn’t — nursing home care, and dental and vision care. I appreciate the bipartisan support of Oregon state and federal legislators for Medicaid and look forward to its continuation in the future. Nancy Cavanaugh, CPNP Central Point No compassion Once again I am disgusted at all your coverage of 4-H at the Jackson County Fair. I truly feel all these kids that raise these animals to be slaughtered for food need to go through the whole process with these animals that they raised as "pets." Not just get a check, but follow these poor animals to their death. Why do you continue to make this news? It's sick! These poor animals think they are pets. Do you think they have no feelings? What are these kids learning? No human compassion, that's for sure. Sharyn "Jinx" Arthur Gold Hill No false equivalence False equivalence in the media is the practice of giving equal coverage and credence to conflicting views, creating an untrue implication. Forced balancing of viewpoints is the norm in outlets with quid-pro-quo arrangements between pundits and their corporate paymasters. Conceivably, holding a job at Fox “News” or hate radio depends on an employee’s willingness to propagate the corporate master’s talking points, with emphasis, of course, on equating corporate tax cuts with economic growth. Never mind that the trickle-down theory of economics has been thoroughly discredited. Most CEOs maximize profits at the expense of their employees and society at large. The billionaire Koch brothers, for example, fund climate change denial to protect investments in their carbon-polluting fossil fuel operations. Uncredentialed climate deniers receive media time to cast doubt on the irrefutable scientific finding that temperature increases have acidified the oceans, causing extreme hot or cold weather. Winter whiteness inevitably prompts some yahoo to make this breathtakingly inane observation: “Oh look! It’s snowing. That disproves global warming.” Unquestioning media pundits help perpetuate this absurdity. Corporate media should dispense with false-equivalence nonsense. Their job is to distinguish between factual and fictional accounts, not to neutralize them. Marie Arvette Medford Doing business elsewhere To the recruitment centers, businesses around them and their patrons: What is more comforting? A soldier, MP or cop standing guard outside the recruitment centers or a couple of people dressed in camos and armored vests with weapons even the cops don't show casually that have been vetted by a private organization that has "vetted" these people in use of their weapons with no ties to any organization but themselves and claim they will violate any law they deem unconstitutional? Laws only work when we all enforce them and follow them. I think my business will be conducted elsewhere; less chance of bullet poisoning. John Holm Jacksonville MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jul. 29, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments /* $( document ).ready(function() { // Jquery mobile is trying to style the button and leaving a blank gry button on top of a white button $("#viafouracoms .vf-comment-controls li.vf-right").html(' Submit '); });*/ » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with MailTribune.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services Home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Announcements Obituaries Story ideas Since you asked Alerts Email Alerts RSS Feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Propel Marketing Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Mobile Site Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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