A look at serious health issues

The article ``Free-Market Approach to Controlling Health Costs,'' Nov. 29, does not even mention the two most serious issues: the problems of the millions of uninsured citizens, and the cost shifting from the under- and uninsured to the rest of us. If his description of the Clinton health plan comes from a ``bipartisan'' organization, what would it sound like if he took a partisan position? Franz Samelson, Manhattan, Kan.

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