Gail Munford of Las Vegas, wrote the following Letter to the Editor of the Las Vegas Sun which was published today:
Good for Cynthia Shiroky, who hit the nail on the head in her May 17 letter to the editor in the Las Vegas Sun supporting a single-payer health care system. We have a universal health care system with Medicare.
Medicare’s overhead is a minimal 3 percent, and it has an excellent, established distribution system throughout the country. How do I know this? I worked in Washington for Rep. John Conyers in 2003 when his health care bill, HR676, was totally overshadowed by the impending war in Iraq.
President Barack Obama’s plan has too many paths for people to use to obtain health care, and will become much too confusing to oversee, regulate and fund. Employers should not have anything to do with health insurance, as that’s exactly how the American automakers got into the trouble they are now mired in — having tremendous health care costs for both current employees and retirees that they had to add on to the cost of each car, rendering them noncompetitive with foreign car manufacturers.
Don’t listen to opponents of the single-payer system who tell you that your medical care will be in the hands of bureaucrats. That’s not true, and isn’t your care now in the hands of heartless health insurance company administrators who are just interested in the bottom line?
We could slowly add more and more Americans by age groups to the current Medicare system in a comparatively short time until we include everyone, and as Cynthia Shiroky wrote, the billing to one entity in a single-payer system will keep costs down as well as add innovations such as putting everyone’s medical records on a computer database accessible only to medical clients.
A single-payer system will for the first time give every American access to affordable and good health care. That is our right and don’t let public relations firms and lobbyists tell you otherwise.
See also: Republicans Fight Healthcare Reform and Single-Payer National Health Insurance
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