Subsidies abound
Gary Crooks certainly has it right about the disinformation being put out about health care (Smart Bombs, June 14). In addition to health care, the U.S. economy corporate sector has been heavily socialized for decades, if not centuries, with tax breaks and outright cash payments, to say nothing of graft and corruption in government contracting. Plus, Social Security is widely recognized as the most low-cost administered retirement system in the country.
We need a public insurance system to balance the massive ripoffs of the private insurance system and to get a more effective result from our health care dollars.
Eric Johnson
Spokane