Letters: All Americans deserve health care

"A government-run health care system is the wrong prescription." Experts predict that it could cost up to $1 billion a year to maintain a public healthcare system like the one Canada has. Most Americans can't fathom that amount of money, but we all should realize that there are 300 million Americans. Quick math tells us that if each American was required to give $33.33 along with their regular income tax, it would produce ten times that much, and everyone in America could have health care for less than three dollars a month. Please, I beg anyone to find a reason why this should not be done.

Yes, I realize the consequences for all the pompous health care corporations existing now. More than half the country has no coverage at all right now; this plan would eliminate that need as well as maintain the current system for those who wish to pay extra.

The prescription may be written in messy handwriting, but it nonetheless says clearly: you and your stone heart are wrong for America, Mr. Bush--all Americans have a right to basic health coverage.

Though critical for most of this, I must emphasize that the state of the union is indeed strong; stronger than any nation in human history. Advances in science and art explode exponentially as a bright new generation sits poised to grab onto the reigns of a powerful horse. But strength is something that is very easily misused, and it has been misused by our current administration. So let the union remain strong; may we use that strength to help others, to understand and to dream, rather than for destruction and hatred.