[Politics] My letter got published today in SF Chronicle

[Guest guest]

My letter got published today in the San Francisco Chronicle opinion

section. They even excerpted from it on the mail page. Here's the

link:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?

file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/08/EDG2NCK4C81.DTL

And here's the cut and paste:

" Your Insight section May 1 devoted six pages to health insurance

without a single mention of alternative health care or

diet/lifestyle modification incentives.

When the most-often-prescribed drugs in the state are digestive

aids, anti-depressants and sexual aids, is it any surprise that some

of us want out of a behemoth medical establishment that relies far

too much on big pharmaceutical companies to medicate after the fact?

Rather than paying huge insurance premiums, some of us would rather

use our dollars for alternative health providers. We'd rather pay

for preventive measures like gym memberships, yoga classes or simply

organic whole foods.

Catastrophic health-care insurance should be all that's necessary.

Doctor visits could be paid out of pocket with the savings on

premiums.

In addition, I'd gladly chip in to pay for both traditional and

untraditional health care as well as medicine for all kids under age

12.

ROBIN REESE

Petaluma "