Explain health care

Letter to the Editor,

What savings will be achieved when you dissolve one agency that offers identical benefits to all  Americans and replace it with 50 different agencies each offering their own version of allowable benefits?

Fifty different bureaucracies each with its own management team, offices, computers, etc., cannot be more cost-effective that a single bureaucracy under any stretch of the imagination.

Other potential problems; two siblings living in different states but suffering from the same genetic disorder might discover that one can get treatment while the other one cannot.  

Also a resident of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, might require surgery that is best done in Spokane, Wash., which houses the nearest major medical center to that resident, BUT Washington state might not have that procedure on its approved list.  Will every state allow its residents to have treatments paid for outside of its boundaries?

Would Romney please explain his plan and how it would be more efficient and beneficial to U.S. citizens?

 — Peter Daniels

Polson