Letter: Business of Health Care

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To the Editor:

Re "Out of Network, Out of Luck" (Sunday Review, Oct. 13):

Theresa Brown's description of the callous treatment of patients as fallout of the scramble for market share among health care providers, both individual and corporate, in the Pittsburgh area is yet another reminder of the sorry state of health care in the United States. The cause is obvious.

In the United States, health care, which should be a basic right like the right to vote, is a business, and as any business school professor will tell you, profit is the holy grail. Unless we find the political will to change this situation, patient care will remain just another factor in the constant effort to improve the bottom line.

DAVID R. BACON
Paris, Oct. 13, 2013

The writer is a pathologist.

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