Philadelphia Inquirer, The - Letters: One Reader's View

Re: “Rivals’ prescriptions for an ailing system,” Sept. 28: The article states from the start: “Barack Obama and John McCain present voters with starkly different visions of how to change the nation’s troubled health-care system.” I don’t see how two plans that slightly modify our current, privatized health-insurance system are “starkly different.” Both plans would still leave many Americans without health insurance, and neither plan addresses the estimated $350 billion a year in wasteful spending - nearly a third of all health-care spending - that takes place under the current system.

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According to an Institute of Medicine report, 18,000 Americans die each year because they cannot afford health care. Neither Obama nor McCain has a plan that guarantees health-insurance coverage for all Americans. Ralph Nader’s campaign, on the other hand, does provide a …

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