Details missing in Romney’s healthcare plan
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Editor,
What savings could be achieved when you dissolve one agency that offers the same benefits to all Americans by replacing it with 50 different agencies each offering their different versions of benefits?
Fifty different bureaucracies, each with its own management team, cannot be more cost-effective than a single bureaucracy, under any stretch of the imaginaton.
In addition, two siblings suffering from the same genetic disorder but living in separate states: one state might permit treatment while the same treatment is not approved for his sibling.
A resident of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, might require surgery best done in Spokane, Wash., which is the closest major medical center to Bonners Ferry. Washington state might not have that particular surgery on its approved list. Will every state allow its residents to have paid treatment in another state?
Would Gov. Romney please explain his plan and how it would be more efficient and beneficial to U.S. citizens?
Peter Daniels
Polson
