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Balanced reporting needed on health care

It saddens me to know that a bright young man with his whole life ahead of him decides to do the unthinkable, and shoots the CEO of UnitedHealth because profits trump good medicine.

One source estimate is that 63,000 people die each year because of denial for medical treatment by medical insurance companies. The medical insurance business is over a trillion dollars a year in revenue.

The issue is “Regulatory Capture” where the special interest groups in medicine become the controller of our D.C. agencies that are designed to protect the interests of the patient and not the corporations.

That is why we have about a $5 trillion bloated medical bill in the USA and it is about 20% of the GDP.

RFK Jr. addresses this and many other issues relating to the bloated sick care system that we have in the USA. It is unfortunate that our newspapers have been victims of regulatory capture in a way and will not provide balanced reporting of the issues that negatively affect us in medicine today.

Does the alleged shooter believe he will accomplish this in his public trial in New York? He clearly believes the public doesn’t understand what the issues are. Will the Daily Herald change their editorial policies and allow all points of view to be heard?

Thomas A Braun

Mount Prospect

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