PUBLIC MIND: IF CLINTON WRITES THE COUNTRY'S HEALTH PLAN AS PROPOSED, GOD HELP US ALL

Dear Editor:

How many Missourians are still unaware that even trying to see their own doctor may soon be a federal offense for which they can be fined and imprisoned for two years? The doctor can be put away for 15 year?

These and other enormities are buried deep in the 1364-page Clinton phantasmagoria, too much which is still alive and kicking. This plan may also deny many elderly current health services, if unelected bureaucrats judge them too old, too sick or too handicapped.

The wheelchair may become a tumbrel rolling its doomed occupant to the guillotine of stonehearted and morally bankrupt indifference to human suffering, constitutional rights and the sanctity of life. Cancer or arthritis may become a "quality of life" unworthy of treatment.

Congressman Newt Gingrich told the American Association of Retired Persons in a recent speech: "Bureaucrats sitting in Washington, D.C., behind closed doors, should not decide who shall live or die."

If Bill Clinton writes the country's health care plan like he has proposed, God help us all.

GERALD McATEE

St. Louis