Aug. 26, 2025 6:30 AM PT
To the editor: The gathering of items on how tech goes to resolve America’s healthcare issues is placing the cart earlier than the horse (“Reclaiming American leadership in healthcare innovation: The ‘Make American Health Tech Great Again’ call to action”; “Stop waiting, start building: A national call to modernize healthcare,” Aug. 24).
In fact, know-how and synthetic intelligence will enhance our well being system, however that isn’t the most important drawback our nation faces in healthcare. That drawback is the decades-long cussed resistance to establishing common protection on this nation. The USA is the one high-income nation with out nationwide medical health insurance. The Los Angeles Instances piece cites the White Home, the Division of Authorities Effectivity and the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz — all complicit in a method or one other in throwing 12 million Individuals off their medical health insurance as soon as the approaching Medicaid cuts kick in. We’re heading within the flawed path as a nation. Tech is not going to repair that.
Furthermore, personal fairness, Huge Pharma and for-profit medical health insurance conglomerates have now made the extraction of wealth the prime cause for the existence of our healthcare system as a substitute of caring for sufferers. Expertise and innovation are all the time essential, however their effectiveness relies upon upon the muse of the financing system on which they’re constructed. Innovation in know-how shall be efficient for everybody solely whether it is constructed on common protection in a unified system of public financing, like “Medicare for all.” In any other case, we will anticipate extra of the identical: large earnings for a rich few whereas the well being of Individuals continues to deteriorate in distinction to different rich nations with higher outcomes and much decrease prices due to common protection.
Steve Tarzynski, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Does anybody actually suppose, if all of the proposed options right here had been applied, that healthcare premiums is not going to proceed to rise at their present charges?
What’s it about each different superior nation’s healthcare methods, which have persistently confirmed extra in a position to present higher total outcomes at considerably decrease prices, that appears so alien as to be omitted from any consideration?
Conversely, why do no different superior international locations suppose emulating our nation’s healthcare system is a rational alternative?
No quantity of naïveté could lead on one to conclude the solutions are as a result of considerations about greatest medical practices.
Ted Rosenblatt, Hancock Park
