Grace-Marie Turner’s commentary was plain nonsense (“Americans are in no mood for another health-care upheaval,” Star-Advertiser, March 11).

The January 2019 edition of National Geographic magazine clearly illustrates that the United States has the most expensive health care on Earth, yet is free-falling in international rankings because it is the lone developed nation without universal health care.

What Turner and others consistently ignore is the plain fact that, under universal health care, mothers take their children to a doctor as soon as they suspect something is wrong, thereby curtailing measles, flu and other epidemics.

In the U.S., mothers take their children to the doctor only when they can afford it, and hope time and cheap medications will cure their child, who continues to infect siblings, classmates, neighbors and bus riders.

Americans are rushing to South America for their health care, not the other way around.

Rico Leffanta

Kakaako

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