Letter: National HMO needed to stop drug cartel

Thursday, Dec. 16, 1999 | 9:09 a.m.

Rep. Shelley Berkley, a defender of the senior citizens of Nevada, was the main speaker.

I explained that the cost of prescription drugs was way out of line and eats up all or more of the senior citizens' food and rent money.

Even those who have HMOs at this time are hurting. Perhaps the only way to turn this into a win situation would be to start a national HMO with a maximum payment of $10.

It would seem to me that the drug cartel is out for one thing only: money. And they don't care who they rob to get it. Why are drugs cheaper in Canada and Mexico than they are in the United States?

We realize the American people are supposed to be the richest in the world but we do have homeless and hungry people in this great land of ours.

Let's wake up all you citizens -- both young and old. Let's write to the members of the House and Senate and the president, too, regarding a national HMO for all the American citizens, stopping the drug cartel in their tracks.

KENNETH M. BRENNAN

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