Re “When health plan choices are limited, the vulnerable pay the price” (March 4): It is very easy for the nation to lose its way in the ideological/political milieu regarding health care. We have barely moved the needle in improving health care since the introduction of Medicare in the mid-1960s. Few, except the very wealthy, receive their desired choices for health care. The whole picture is grim because health care is not a right, as it seems in most countries around the world.
For all the economic talk regarding productivity, the U.S. could be far more productive with easily accessible health care, given the very high rates of curable diseases.
Instead, venture capitalists seep into the health care system to deny health care. And Congress goes along with it.
— John H. Borja, Chula Vista