Health care crisis
To the editor:
Just a few facts to describe our crisis: 45 million people have no health insurance in the United States and many more are “underinsured” with plans that offer limited coverage and high deductibles. We spend more than twice as much on health care as do people in other developed nations, yet we lack universal coverage. Half of U.S. personal bankruptcies, affecting 2 million people annually, were attributable to illness or medical bills (Himmelstein et. al., 2003). Do we need more statistics to convince us to demand a single-payer system of our congresspeople?
Jean Drumm,
Lawrence