Editor:

A few leaders in states across the country are stepping up to discuss how to achieve universal coverage for health care. At the same time, many on the Right are trying to define \"health care coverage\" to mean bare-bones care with often unaffordable cost-sharing for individuals and families. It\'s a not-so-nice semantic trick, to pretend to support health care coverage while actually trying to dismantle decent standards of care. The Right\'s push for more \"consumer-driven care\" in health coverage and the resulting downgrading of health care standards for what people need. They want to protect huge profits off of people\'s health tragedies, a decidedly immoral endeavor that our own Governor got rich off of and continues to support. It has gone on too long. It is time for a non-profit single-payer healthcare system for all. Howard Switzer 668 Hurricane Creek Road Linden, TN 37096 931-589-6513