The New York Times
Letters
December 28, 2001
To the Editor:
Disputes between companies and the families of the World Trade Center victims over health care coverage (front page, Dec. 26) reflect more than corporate penuriousness. They reflect America’s failure to adopt a national health care system that covers all Americans, one that is affordable and financed fairly, based on ability to pay.
The more than 40 million uninsured Americans can surely empathize with the victims’ families because they, too, need health care coverage. It’s time for our government to face this issue, not to be put off by the lobbying and campaign contributions of the insurance companies and others in the health care industry who insist that coverage exists to assure profits for companies rather than care for consumers.
RHODA H. KARPATKIN
New York, Dec. 26, 2001
Comment: Rhoda Karpatkin understands. She is the immediate past president of Consumers Union and has been an outspoken advocate of health care equity.