Health care -issue that UNITES

I applaud your editorial calling for - horror of Right Wing horrors - a national health care plan : " Time to cover everyone " ( Oct.31 ) .

Here is an issue that should UNITE the nation . We must see health care - REASONABLE health care - as a basic human right.

Nobody - not black citizens or white citizens , latino or Asian citizens - American Indians - gays that are HIV positive - should panic or suffer humiliation because of the costs of health care .

Right now half the nation has pariah status from the health industry's point of view . And let me also point out that that even those dreadful illegal aliens have a HUMAN right to medical care -at least to emergency services and to benefit from the innate kindness of the American people.

Yes, the money must come from somewhere , from somebody , perhaps from EVERYBODY . Let intelligent leaders figure all this out : A national health care plan that does not RUIN any social group.

True enough individuals can take a little more responsibity for their own health. Stop smoking, drinking to excess, over-eating junk food , exercise routinely.

Stop thinking that your car is more important than your health. Everybody knows the guy who can always come up with an extra hundred bucks every other month for his damm car. But $50 for a dental cleaning twice a year ? But I'm not covered for this !

We can do better in this matter of health care.