THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, September 11, 1995 TAG: 9509080030
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Regarding ``An irremediable ill?'' (editorial, Sept. 5): Yes, health-care costs continue to skyrocket. Indeed, the health-care system is gravely ill. But it is not necessarily irremediable! Problems involve all sectors in the system: kickbacks between insurance and hospital industries, fraud by dishonest health-care professionals, abuses by program recipients, profiteering by greedy managed-care plans and their executives, etc. More than insurance reform is needed to save the system.
Having attended a recent rally sponsored by the Coalition of The Public and Physicians for Sensible Health Care Reform, U.S.A., I strongly urge your readers to contact the organization at (804) 483-5540 for its reform proposal, ``The American Citizens Health Care Act 1995.'' The proposal makes sense to me because it identifies the problems in the system and offers reasonable solutions.
To ensure ourselves a working health-care system tomorrow, we must reform the system now. Most of all, the public needs to be aware of the mess in the system and actively involve itself in the reform process. Congress listens only if we speak up. Let us get up and sweep the mess for our own good.
WILLIAM T. SHINN
Suffolk, Sept. 5, 1995 by CNB