The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1993 Page: 2 of 4
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November 4,1993
OPINION
Page 2
A STUDENT SPEAKS OUT
Letter to The President
After listening to the president and Mrs. Clinton's speeches outlining the National Health
Plan; after reading miles of editorials and expressed views of the columnists who are much
closer to Washington than I am; after asking several people on campus just what their feelings
were; the same old questions keep dancing around in my mind.
The president and his wife are very charismatic people. They are a handsome couple with
a gift of words and the ability to talk abundantly and say little. So, when somebody this side
of God talks about performing miracles, I just have to know. . .
Dear Mr. President:
Americans love change. We are a nation who “improves" every good thing that we make,
manufacture, or build. You don't have to sell us on anything that starts out with the word
“change.” But about your proposed changes in our health care system, I have some questions.
You say you will provide health care for every American regardless of pre-existing conditions,
financial status, or job change. Mr. President, how do you propose to pay for it?
You quickly skimmed through that question with your answer of “savings.” A figure of
340 billion would come from Medicaid and Medicare. Another from taxes on cigarettes.
Sandy Grady, Washington columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, said that you are
promising a Mercedes on a Yugo budget; I understand that Senator Daniel P. Moynihan said
it sounded like voodoo economics to him.
“Somehow I think that is one of the biggest political con jobs I have ever heard,” Mike
Royko, columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Pulitzer Prize winner said of Mrs. Clinton's
speech to Congress. I am no mathematician, Mr. President, but I have my doubts about how
you plan to provide health care for a nation with 37 million people without health insurance
(your figure); a nation that is $4 trillion in debt, provide health insurance for everyone, and
pay for it. My grandmother used to say “the proof is in the pie.” Mr. President, I want a piece
of that pie.
If you diminish the nation’s crime, which keeps our hospitals jumping; if you can solve
the problem of unwanted pregnancies and child abuse; if you can convince people that tobacco
use contributes to almost 400,000 deaths annually, not counting treatment for smokers with
emphysema, heart disease, and cancer; if you can stop the spread of the AIDS virus, drug
abuse, and unsafe sex among the millions; if you can convince the nation that alcohol
consumption, overeating, lack of exercise, and self-induced stress are high percentages of all
health costs; if you can set up a system that is fool proof against high-paid executives who
skim money that is supposed to be going for indigent health care; and last, Mr. President, if
you can convince those old-moss covered senators and representatives to forget about being
re-elected and do something for the American people, unselfishly, one time, I will believe you
when you say you can finance your proposed changes in the national health system.
Sincerely,
Annie Golightly
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