Reducing costs of health care is key

Richard Rychtarik, Las Vegas

Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 | 2:03 a.m.

Someone in the administration needs to tell President Barack Obama to stop responding to the health care mudslingers and instead tell it straight to Americans.

Unless there is a mechanism at the national level to control and to reduce health care costs and restrictions to medical treatment, then over time few Americans, if any, will have any coverage.

Alternatively, if they do have coverage then any wage increases workers expect to receive must instead go to fund their care. It doesn’t get any simpler than this.