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...health care reform is dead, it is the fault not of overreaching but of not reaching far enough. To gain the votes of conservative Democrats, the President was too willing to compromise on important components. Jay Talkoff San Francisco...
...survivors ... to help build a Haiti that will never again be so vulnerable" [Feb. 1]. Does this mean other nations can persuade the handful of families and businesses that control the wealth of Haiti to begin paying appropriate taxes? Does this mean Haitian leaders will direct foreign aid to health care facilities, water and sewage systems, education, job training and proper building construction? Or after this acute crisis has passed, will Haiti return to baseline poverty? The ethics of those who run this little country must change or be coerced to change. Seymour Levin Los Angeles
Rethinking Mental Health...
...believe people get tired of helping--only that they get tired of feeling helpless. The challenge arises when we witness what health crusader Paul Farmer calls "stupid deaths": death in childbirth, death by mosquito, death, in the case of Haiti, from infections that spread when crushed limbs aren't amputated fast enough. Help never arrives fast enough because no two disasters are alike and chaos is an agile enemy. So I wondered how we would feel, after texting our $10 donations to the Red Cross and writing checks to Save the Children, still coming home night after night...
Your article on the threat of hepatitis B stated that the illness is spread through unprotected sex, sharing of needles or acupuncture [Jan. 26]. This statement is incorrect. It perpetuates a myth and unfairly portrays the legitimate health care profession of acupuncture in a negative light. Acupuncturists in the U.S. have master's degrees and thousands of hours of classroom and clinical training in preventing and treating diseases. A 2001 study in the British Medical Journal found that in 34,407 treatments by 1,848 professional acupuncturists, there were zero instances of transmission of hepatitis or any other disease. Performed...