To the editor: I like studying contributing writers Veronique de Rugy and Matt Ok. Lewis, considerate commentators I usually disagree with and at all times be taught from. However this week, they make assertions that get beneath my pores and skin.
De Rugy applauds the usage of well being financial savings accounts (“The ‘Huge Lovely Invoice’ bought one factor proper,” July 10). In accordance with her, they permit individuals to regulate their very own well being choices. I say they’re one other strategy to disguise the cracks in our insufficient healthcare system. Lewis calls “Medicare for all” “unworkable” (“Will Democrats discover an anti-Trump to impress the left?,” July 11). That’s humorous. It really works effectively for many people over 65. So why is it unworkable for everyone else?
So many people watch these heartbreaking TV commercials for Shriners and St. Jude’s kids’s hospitals. That these establishments have to beg for donations is a horrible indictment of our healthcare system. Shouldn’t each citizen have healthcare without any consideration? That’s the best way it’s achieved in each different developed nation on the planet, with prices far lower than what we pay and with superior outcomes.
It’s well beyond time for common healthcare.
William Blum, Studio Metropolis
