LETTERS: HEALTH-CARE SAFEGUARDS

To the editor:

Universal health care through health maintenance organizations looks better than it did before. Procedures that used to cost $5,000 now cost $25,000, and the health-care recipient puts off taking medications and follow-up visits.

Yes, universal health care is national socialism and would require strict, aggressive scrutiny to protect the quality of health care and to eliminate greed.

Health care for all U.S. citizens including dental and eye care can become a reality if safeguards are put in place.

The minimum safeguards would be that the health-care recipients maintain their right to sue their care providers, health care cannot be refused for any reason and the patient should be required to review and approve or disapprove his health-care bill.

RICHARD KLINE

Gipsy