Health System

Re “Stem an Unhealthy Tide,” editorial, June 19: Universal health care may very well be a political goal, but only after the subject has been aired. If not taken up now, those tomorrows will never come.

Every aspect of the system is ailing. The patients don’t trust their doctors. Employer health care is falling apart. Providers are disgruntled, coerced, overworked and underpaid. Blame is cast in all directions. We will patch the system again and again, fostering constant change. But meanwhile the $600,000 requested to fund a study of universal health care can point us in a direction that is intended to create stability and affordability for everyone in a quality health care system. We can’t afford to push this issue under the carpet.

SHEILA HOFF, Vice Chair

Health Care for All California

Rancho Palos Verdes