Please. Everyone who hasn't lived under a rock all their lives knows the bad stories about national health coverage.And the initial article to which readers were responding: "Putting a price on prolonging a doomed life."
We have a friend who lived in Britain for many years. It took her two years to get a hysterectomy that would have taken her two weeks at an HMO here — two days if her condition were life-threatening. The numbers don't coincide with your version of reality.
This death is a sad thing. But his extra year and a half of life was won by a successful struggle that he and his family could not have waged against the bureaucracy of, say, Britain's healthcare system.
Your argument is driven by political hope, not reality.
Joan Moon
Burbank
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Bob Iritano and the Politics of Health Care
An excellent set of letters to the editor yesterday, at Los Angeles Times, "On health insurers rationing care...." And the last one:
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