concerning your article on universal health coverage. I think all people should be under the same universal health coverage--including the members of congress and our other elected officials. Gene R. Gilchrist

Imagine how hectic, speeded-up and tech-saturated the world of 1959 would have seemed to someone from 1900. Or the world of 1900 to someone from Renaissance times. Ever since we discovered how to make fire, each new tool has had the potential for good or ill. But the net effect of technology is always for the betterment of mankind. There's a reason God gave us a rational brain and a set of thumbs.