Adopt universal care? 3 readers say No

I have a question for Dr. Susman: In view of the fiscal evidence, why do you want to burden your children and grandchildren with a financial colossus that will impoverish them? And what good is health coverage if people can’t get health care? As I write today, my 70-year-old brother-in-law has been in the critical care unit of a teaching hospital in Canada for a week, after having a myocardial infarction— waiting for an angiogram because a rationing board limits the number of angiograms. This is evidence of failed government from the retrospective trials of history—evidence I would urge advocates of a universal health care system in the United States to acknowledge.

Calvin S. Ennis, MD, FAAFP
Pascagoula, Miss

Reference

1. The Wall Street Journal. Comparing debt ratios. April 20, 2011. Available at: https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703789104576272891515344726.html. Accessed September 21, 2012.