Where are alternatives?

Sat., Sept. 12, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

Is Medicare really the problem? One of Dr. Donald Condon’s statements (Guest Opinion, Sept. 5) was, “Medicare interferes with the doctor-patient relationship: Medicare instructs patients to report physicians they feel may be overbilling …”

So what is wrong with that? And are you saying that private insurance companies, like Blue Cross, are better? What will happen to all the senior citizens on Medicare if all the doctors don’t renew their contracts?

Dr. Condon seems to have come up with all the things wrong with Medicare, but offered no alternatives.

Catherine Stirling

Coeur d’Alene

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