Two Views on Clinton Health Plan

“A Healthy Dose of Trust” (Sept. 21) shed light on the Clinton medical plan’s proposed interference. Anything that comes between the doctor and his or her work endangers the doctor-patient relationship. Clinton may prattle about “need” as a claim on a doctor’s livelihood, but the truth is, I would rather have a doctor liberated from government intervention than one forced to serve me at the point of a bureaucrat’s gun.

There is too much government in medicine at a time when we need a free market for the best health care money can buy. The Clinton medical proposal offers the best health care a push and shove in line can get.

SCOTT HOLLERAN, Glendale

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Could you please stop contributing to stupid canards about the importance of trust in your “all knowing” doctor? Doctors eat that stuff up.

How many of your readers were in the military? Believe me, those who were didn’t pick their doctor.

Being a health addict, I had no need for medical service for many years. Having no doctor, I once asked my friends for references and discovered that nearly all had chosen a doctor because they “liked” him, played golf with him or socialized with him.

So, this healthy dose of trust is based on personality! Yikes!!

How many laymen out of a hundred can intelligently select a doctor. One? Two? No more, I believe. So please stop catering to this myth. I know they trust their doctor, but why ?

BEN GEORGE, Santa Ana