Bush’s Plan for Health Care

Let’s allow a free-market approach with competition between community provider systems in order to provide universal access and real short- and long-term cost containment. We need to encourage competition among provider organizations. We need to encourage productivity.

We need providers competing for market share rather than third parties setting prices and limits for providers. We need to give purchasing power to the individual and even consider uncoupling the employee from the employer in buying coverage. Third parties now come between the customer and the provider, thus limiting choice, denying access and continuing to increase costs of coverage and health care services to the consumer.

HENRY GOTHELF, Anaheim