Dr. Morris: Please forgive me if I have misinterpreted the first two columns of your recent letter.
Are you saying that you are a victim of the disapproval in many the letters that you have received from your intelligent and perceptive readers, and are being treated as the infamous Sen. McCarthy treated his victims?
If that is what you are saying, do not play the victim. Despite your admirable resume, your current positions may indicate that in your old age, your thinking has somehow gone awry as happens in some people when they are in their dotage.
If that is the case, it certainly means that we should let you misinterpret and misunderstand, shake our heads sadly at the change and no longer attempt to reason with you.
You certainly have given yourself away. There are clues. You were a Rick Santorum supporter. You have declared yourself a Tea Partyer. You lack a perspective. We used to say that things don’t change in a day, they don’t.
The Affordable Care Act was a landmark achievement especially since the Republicans rejected it to a man. It was not modeled on Medicare, with its low administrative costs, as compared to 15 percent to 20 percent for private insurers so they can pay huge salaries for executives, provide profits to investors and lobby endlessly (Health care should not be a profit-making business); the lobbyists managed to prohibit negotiating drug prices as is allowed for the Veteran’s Administration (a windfall for the insurers, far beyond rewards for research and development).
The act is so long because of the many self-serving provisions that had to be included in order to stand a chance of passage.
It is futile to respond to your many half truths and your lack of perspective. I invite anyone who would like to attack you on your facts to do so. All I can say is it is a waste of time.
It is so obvious that your sources are abysmally slanted from the outset.
Esther Confino
New Hyde Park
