June 26, 2009
New York Times
Re “The Only Public Health Plan We Need” (OP-ED, June 25): To suggest that “Medicare is a “mediocre-quality insurer” is wrong. If the goal is to mislead the public with prejudices and misconceptions as do all opponents of public health insurance, why no just call it socialized medicine, a scare-tactic that has halted progress of public health insurance for over fifty years.
Millions of Americans would have undergone bankruptcy if they were not protected by Medicare. I have not seen or heard of any Medicare patients having their cancer treatments denied or their insurance cancelled because of pre-existing conditions something that happens not infrequently with private insurers.
Clearly, Medicare is not mediocre, mercenary, or merciless, common complaints often hurled, as they should be, at private insurers.
Ed Volpintesta MD
Friday, June 26, 2009
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