To the Editor:
A neighbor asked me how I felt about President Obama’s health care reform effort. My answer was that I had no answer. I’m confused. Aside from insiders, does anyone truly understand it?
Despite all the wild absurdities and tumultuous emotions, we’re going to have health care legislation. But what will be in it?
At 93, I’ve enjoyed Medicare for 28 years. No complaints.
Why can’t everyone have Medicare, which has performed admirably since 1965, instead of a whole new complicated bureaucracy that will still have to be tested?
Jack E. Cohen
Hewlett, N.Y., Aug. 13, 2009
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 