I saw Sen. Olympia Snowe on Lisbon Street recently. I wanted to tell her that everyone needs health care, and that I’ll support her when she supports a public plan in the Senate Finance Committee bill. She has said it will take more time to do it right. She wants to give insurance companies a chance to fix things.

I just know that when someone is hurt or ill, real human beings want to help each other, not ask who is going to pay for it.

Nurses and nurses’ aides do most of the work. And janitors — if they didn’t keep the floors clean, people would be a lot more sick. The janitors deserve bonuses, not insurance company CEOs. The hardest-working people are not the ones benefiting.

I hear people using words such as “socialized medicine,” and it makes no sense because capitalism is supposed to be about working hard and getting paid. But that is not happening.

What do insurance companies do? People don’t get the health care they need, they get what is covered based on insurance companies’ profit-oriented decisions.

What are profiteers doing in the health-care business?

Co-ops? Isn’t that like having the insurance companies reforming health care similar to having the fox guard the henhouse?

Brenda Akers, Lewiston