As the country moves towards a national health care program, I am strongly opposed to including illegal immigrants and any dependents they have brought into the country as beneficiaries. I am unwilling to pay higher taxes, higher Medicare premiums, higher…
Reading an opinion like Dr. Hamilton’s makes me want to shout, “Wake up!” I don’t think his opinion reflects the majority in the medical profession any longer, but if it does, this country is in deep trouble. “While there are…
The problems with mental health care as you discuss them are real and difficult (”Survey finds mental health care is elusive,” April 17). But they cannot be addressed by mutually exclusive government policies.
Those who complain that we have too…
To those politicians taking up the issue of healthcare reform, you might find this Post-Dispatch story (4/9) interesting:
BRITAIN OKs MORE EXPENSIVE TREATMENTS…WITH LIMITS
Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has decided to approve more expensive treatments, but retain its…
The plethora of articles and proposals concerning the cost and ineptness of the health care system of the United States is indicative of the importance of health care to the well being of society. There is a national consensus that…
Regarding a letter from Judy Arnold publlished on January 13th: Now I am all for healthcare for every American because I think it is the right thing to do; however, Ms. Arnold claimed that healthcare is a right. I checked…
Your editorial, “Seven steps to better health care” (Dec. 15, A-16) promotes “tinkering” with a for-profit insurance model to solve America’s health care debacle. Individuals with employer-based private plans pay increasing costs in premiums, copays, and deductibles, with annual and…
