What about the ‘Employee Free Choice’ act?
To the editor:
Perhaps Chandler Levrich has a good idea (Monday letter). When the "death tax" is levied against the Kennedys, Rockefellers, Heinz-Kerrys and others of that elevated position, it will make sense.
Also, conservatives are not the only ones to devise great names for things political. Just look at the "Employee Free Choice" act.
Robert Raider
HENDERSON
Flu shot
To the editor:
Regarding the Sept. 30 article "Judge blocks rules for medical assistance":
It seems that medical assistants are needed to give injections just to keep busy medical offices operating. It also appears that the Nevada State Medical Board does not want to allow medical assistants to give cosmetic injections.
It is obvious that the medical community relies on the services of medical assistants. The old, vague and unenforced law banning them from doing so should not be used to punish those working in the field of cosmetics. Should Gov. Jim Gibbons decide to call an emergency session, guidelines should fairly define criteria for the training of medical assistants -- or repeal the law that seems to have been passed for the purpose of restricting medical assistants from doing what they have been doing for years and are trained to do.
What are we going to do this fall when doctors and nurses can't give all the shots that our community needs to stay healthy this winter? This is especially important for the successful distribution of the H1N1 vaccine.
We need to act timely and appropriately to resolve this matter before it becomes a statewide emergency that will end in a lot of unnecessary loss of life.
Elizabeth Flanagan
LAS VEGAS
Green jobs
To the editor:
Sunday's pro and con columns on the benefits of green energy and potential jobs created presented an interesting contrast of viewpoints. The case against subsidizing huge investments that produce relatively few jobs was pretty convincing, especially in light of the hundreds of thousands of jobs required to produce and transport the gas and coal used in fuel-fired power plants.
The Waxman-Markey green energy bill is not about jobs. It is about forcing taxpayers and consumers to pay for alternative energy facilities that cannot be justified by the value of the electricity they will produce.
Tom Keller
HENDERSON
