To the editor: Kudos for science reporting

Science articles a plus

What an interesting article regarding zoonotics and the part it played in the death of Mahal, the orangutan who succumbed to a never before known parasite in 2014 (“Animal to man, fear of the next pandemic”).

Troubling things are happening in our world right now so an investigation of these fascinating parasites that far out number us might seem important, but the possible implication for us humans is well presented in the article.

In addition to all the news that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel must report, these scientific articles are quite a plus.

Arlene Rosenbecker

New Berlin

Make supervisors pay

Milwaukee County Supervisor Jim Luigi Schmitt now wants the taxpayers to pay more to cover the “ultra-lucrative pension changes approved by the County Board” (“County may forgive overpayments,” March 20).

I have a better idea. Take it out of the supervisor’s paychecks to repay the retirees’ overpayments and the “bonuses” given out over the years.

Tom Esser

Milwaukee

Hospitals responsible for cost

What a surprise! The Republicans and Democrats could not agree on a revised health care plan.

These two groups could not agree if the sun rises in the east, the sky is blue or water is wet. That being said, has anyone thought who the real culprit in our rising health care cost really is? The hospitals themselves.

In the days before Obamacare, they justified the expense of care on all the uninsured who stiffed them on the services they provided. When the Affordable Care Act took effect, all of a sudden the hospitals were collecting from insurance companies for almost all of the services they were providing.

Since they are not writing off nearly as much uncollectable debt, why have charges come down at all? Just my thought, as I am sure some CEO will be able to justify the charges and his yearly bonus.

Dave Bremer

West Allis

They weren’t evacuees

The March 23 Green Sheet Highlights in History said the Japanese-Americans forced to leave their homes and businesses by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order in 1942 were evacuated to Manzanar, Calif.

Not so. Evacuees are those removed from danger or disaster. FDR’s order, made without due process, forced people whose only crime was Japanese heritage into internment camps behind barbed wire. Armed guards kept them there. Two-thirds of them were American citizens.

The article appears to be written by the Associated Press. I expect this paper to reject euphemisms like this. Please, no alternative facts.

Shirley Uribe

Mukwonago

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