Bush’s Plan for Health Care
The implication of your headline “Bush Health Care Plan Cost: $100 Billion” (Feb. 7) has to be the most macabre practical joke that has ever been perpetrated on the American public by any comic in Washington.
President Bush sits in his office and thinks that by appropriating (stealing) funds from other vital programs (i.e., Medicare) the problems of the “disease” called health insurance will go away!
I call health insurance a disease because, without its protections, you are likely to die prematurely, and with 35 million (or more) people in this country who can no longer afford any coverage, we are now facing an “epidemic” of national proportions! The answer is not in compounding a felony by meeting the ever spiraling and “blackmailing” demands put upon us by the health care industry.
The solution lies in slashing in half physician fees, hospital charges and insurance premiums accompanied by strict government regulation, which will allow most uninsureds to purchase some kind of benefits. Not only will this plan cost taxpayers nothing, but, as ridiculous and as nauseating as it may seem, health providers will stand to make even more money.
ALAN P. LINSKY, Sherman Oaks
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