
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 25, 1994                    TAG: 9406210017 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A10    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Short 
DATELINE: 940625                                 LENGTH:

REFORM, NOT MORE, GOVERNMENT

{LEAD} The government-mandated, government-controlled, health-reform plans being discussed in Washington are enough to scare the wits out of thinking Americans.

Look at government-run programs now in existence (the veterans-hospital system, the welfare system, the state Department of Motor Vehicles). Is there a single one that is not riddled with waste, fraud and/or inefficiency?

{REST} How can the Clintons possibly expect us to believe that this same government will suddenly become competent with our health-care decisions?

Some reforms need to be made. But I'm not at all convinced that more government powers would accomplish the reforms we need.

RUTH E. CHANDLER

Portsmouth, June 14, 1994 by CNB