It’s time to fix health care

It’s time to fix health care

EDITOR:

Thank you, Thomas Lamb, for your enlightening letter of Aug. 30 regarding the salaries of top health-care executives. These salaries answer so many questions: why we have not heard from the health-care sector, why our premiums keep escalating and why so many individuals and businesses can no longer afford health care in the United States.

The time is long overdue to assure each and every citizen access to quality health care at an affordable cost to all, not just the chosen few.

One suggestion, introduce all state and federal members into the general population of the insured. Adding our legislators, for example, will enlarge the pool of citizens into the base of customers for the insurance companies, and we all know larger pools of customers should result in more competitive rates, and more competition should bring the health-care industry costs down to realistic and affordable rates for all.

As a nation we introduce our beliefs and ideals to countries around the world, even if we are not wanted, yet our own health-care system is a disgrace. We needed to fix it years ago, and we did not. Now is our chance to repair health care for all.

PATRICIA TURK

Boardman