Why blame citizens?

In Bill Kaszycki's letter ("Sorry Values," Dec. 17), he makes the assertion that "average citizens who want to maintain their own current comfortable situation," in regard to their own health-care situations, are somehow of questionable character and morally defunct. While there is no argument that the lack of affordable health care has led indirectly to the deaths of many Americans, to lay some part of the blame at the feet of those who want nothing more than to look after the well-being of their own families is folly and risks creating opponents that Mr. Kaszycki's camp can't afford to have.

Simply stated, it is wrong to attack those who fought to gain health care for themselves in an attempt to gain it for those who lack. We of the working class, of unions and of American families, have already paid in pain and sweat for the health benefits we currently hold. Any attempt to take what you have not earned shall be met with, "You can have my health care when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."

JEFFREY J. BENNETT
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