Letters to the Editor: How is ‘Medicare for all’ ‘unworkable’ when common healthcare works elsewhere?

To the editor: I like studying contributing writers Veronique de Rugy and Matt Okay. Lewis, considerate commentators I typically disagree with and at all times be taught from. However this week, they make assertions that get beneath my pores and skin.

De Rugy applauds using well being financial savings accounts (“The ‘Huge Stunning Invoice’ acquired one factor proper,” July 10). In keeping with her, they permit individuals to manage their very own well being choices. I say they’re one other approach to disguise the cracks in our insufficient healthcare system. Lewis calls “Medicare for all” “unworkable” (“Will Democrats discover an anti-Trump to impress the left?,” July 11). That’s humorous. It really works properly for many people over 65. So why is it unworkable for everyone else?

So many people watch these heartbreaking TV commercials for Shriners and St. Jude’s youngsters’s hospitals. That these establishments must beg for donations is a horrible indictment of our healthcare system. Shouldn’t each citizen have healthcare for granted? That’s the best way it’s completed in each different developed nation on the planet, with prices far lower than what we pay and with superior outcomes.

It’s well beyond time for common healthcare.

William Blum, Studio Metropolis