Dear Sir:
Both Michel Moore and his new film, ‘Sicko’, are controversial. And that’s too bad. Too many people will stop at the controversy, never hear the message.
One thing to keep in mind. The Americans that Moore talks about most aren’t the 45 million uninsured. He’s chiefy talking about people who have health insurance, but whose insurance let them down. The political debates today concentrate on people without insurance. The real problems are with middle-income people who struggle with co-payments, deductibles, exclusions, shared premium costs and so on for insurance coverage that, too often, proves to be tissue-paper thin. The silent issue today is that many middle-income people are worried. Worried whether they could afford a major illness, even with their insurance. Too often they have a right to be worried.
Sincerely,
J. Walden Retan, M.D.
State coordinator, Alabama chapter Physicians for a National Health Program
Mountain Brook, AL
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