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Letter Published After All
By Diana Hsieh @ 8:28 AM   
Hooray! My June letter to the editor was published in the Rocky Mountain News after all. It appeared in yesterday's print edition, but you can read it (plus a ton of comments) online: Free-market medicine is the answer.
Update: Whoops, that probably made no sense whatsoever. I wrote up a post a few days ago with my letter to the Rocky Mountain News which I'd presumed wasn't to be published after all despite a phone call from them because so much time had passed. When I wrote the above, I thought I'd published that blog post, but it was actually just in the queue. In any case, here's text of the letter I sent to the News:
Dear Editor,
At a weekend rally in Denver, filmmaker Michael Moore advocated the total government takeover of medicine with heartbreaking tales of peoples’ medical disasters ("Filmmaker Moore presides at Colorado health care rally," June 25th).
He neglected to mention that "single-payer" socialized medicine makes medical disasters routine due to inevitable rationing of care.
In Canada, patients are forced to wait weeks and months for diagnostic tests, appointments with specialists, and treatment as their deadly cancer cells multiply. In Britain, most NHS kidney patients over the age of 55 are allowed to die rather than offered dialysis. As usual, the working poor suffer the most: they are unable to afford treatment outside the government system they've already bought with taxes.
The only reliable protection against medical disasters is a genuinely free market in medicine. Only when medicine is freed of burdensome government regulations, mandates, and entitlements will patients will be able to pay for their own routine health care and purchase affordable catastrophic insurance. That's the reform Colorado needs.
Diana Hsieh
June 25, 2007 Although I haven't checked word-for-word, that seems to be almost exactly what was printed. Also, in my original post, I mentioned that I'm eager to write some more "morally radical" letters in the next few months. So stay tuned!Labels: Health Care
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