Health care in U.S. should be a right
On July 13 the CBS program "Sixty Minutes" focused on a volunteer health care organization. The group is composed of volunteer MDs, DDs, RNs, opticians and others who donate one weekend a month to provide health care services all around America for no charge.
Interestingly, the group was started by one man (a pilot and MD) who began flying health care missions to people living in remote villages in the Brazilian jungle. He was made aware of the need for his services here in the U.S. and now this group provides services one weekend a month by flying all over helping folks without health insurance.
They number into the thousands. These people are not on welfare; they are employed but without access to health care.
The news is replete with workers and retirees losing health care benefits. When will our nation decide that health care is a right and not a privilege? Some things are for the better good of all when not privatized such as the fire and police services.
We have struggled with this problem since 1994 and now we spend our resources on a far off war which benefits not the citizens of the U.S. who are footing the bill. We could direct our energies to issues needing attention here to taxpayers footing the bill.
Eleanor Lukazewski
Geneva