""I find it difficult, if not downright impossible, to believe that US doctors knowingly keep their patients ill. The main reason, of course, is that most doctors are ethical, caring people who pride themselves on their skills.""

Thank you, Ebbie, for saving me the trouble.

Doctors are most certainly NOT the problem, in any civilised country.

There are of course the few who batten on the vanity of those who cannot bear to accept the ageing process, but the vast majority want nothing more than to work themselves out of a job, by eradicating disease.

The PROBLEM lies in the activities of those venal, corrupt, men who control the supply and the price of what is needed for doctors to successfully treat and cure their patients.

I refer of course to the drug company executives, and the health insurance moguls.

Private insurers will always bleat about making huge losses, when what they REALLY mean is a small percentage reduction in their obscene profit margins.

We have them in the UK too, and I assure you that 60+ years of national insurance funded, free at the point of use, healthcare, has failed so far to bankrupt even the smallest of them.

Don T.