Don’t share writer’s values
Duncan Bean (“Mistaken about rights,” April 16 letter) questions the character and integrity of those eager to give of our “time, knowledge, labor and/or earnings” so that all Americans can have adequate health care. He argues that because we all die, a right to life cannot be seen to include services – such as health care – that have the possibility of reducing premature death. He observes that some people do not want their taxes used to pay for other people’s health care and seems to think it is tyranny if the majority chooses otherwise.
I would submit that many of us do not share his values or way of thinking.
Roy Johnson
Pullman