Letter to the Editor
LA Times
2/5/06
America's Healthcare needs to be Rethought
Re: "Treatment Plan for Healthcare Will be Self-Help"
President Bush, in his State of the Union speech, only briefly discussed America's healthcare crisis.
While healthcare costs rise, the president continues to propose drastic cuts to such key public health programs as Medicaid and Medicare. The only policy that the president pushed in his speech was health savings accounts, another idea borrowed from the insurance companies. These accounts only reduce costs for those who are healthy and wealthy; they do nothing to address the issues of access, quality or coverage.
We taxpayers, who provide for the president's healthcare, believe that he owes the American people a solution that will provide all Americans accessible and affordable quality healthcare today.
Michael A. Straeter
President, United Food and Commercial Workers
Local 1442, El Segundo
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