Medicine in the U.S. | Letters


July 6, 2009 · 9:55 AM

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I am writing to say that we do not need socialized medicine. It is naive to think that the plan proposed by the administration is not the path to a single payer system. We do not need more government in our lives. We cannot afford more taxes, nor can we afford the inevitable health care rationing that would take place in a government health care system.

Seniors should wake up. The programs that they were required to invest into all of their lives will be the first to be rationed. Do you think that Congress will implement the same rules for their plan? Ha! As one example of what you could expect, Canada's system has resulted in a 16 percent greater cancer mortality rate than our current health care system in the USA. We need reform, but not socialization.

Victor Avolio, Des Moines

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