Patient outraged by doctors’ appointment policy
     It used to be doctors or hospitals would refuse to treat sick people if they did not have health insurance. Well, now it’s gotten to the point where having health insurance no longer guarantees you an appointment or treatment with a doctor.
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Reader: Letter is an example of anti-American rhetoric
     Carol Abaya’s guest column in the March 5 Independent disgusted me. She talks of American arrogance and ego. If you needed a perfect example of both, she exemplifies them in her column.
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Hazlet resident grateful to stranger for act of kindness
     I would like to thank a very special woman. When I finished my shopping at the A&P in Holmdel, I put all my groceries on the checkout counter, and the cashier rang everything up and then got my total.
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Reader corrects date of Nike Missile base explosion
     Just a quick note to correct a major error in a story in your March 5 edition on volunteers being sought in Middletown for a major emergency team.
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