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Opinion - Letters to the Editor

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009

How to get insurance for all

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The furor over health care reform is generating more heat than light because it's about the wrong thing. We don't need to reform health care. We have great doctors and nurses, some better than others. We have great hospitals, some better than others. We have great medicines, some sold all over the world, often cheaper than here.

What we want to reform is the health care delivery system, which is a real difference from health care reform, not just a semantic one. We want, or should want, to deliver health care to every citizen. Currently this means seeing that every citizen has health insurance. And that means someone or something must pay for it. That's the stumbling block.

All insurance is socialistic. Everybody, or a defined group, puts into the pot. Those in need take out of the pot. How citizens put into the pot and whether the pot is run by the government or by private enterprise, that is what the furor is about, not about health care reform.

JOHN STOTT

Modesto