Re: Terry Paulson’s Jan. 29 essay, “Healthcare responsibility”:

Terry Paulson may not have wasted an education, but he seems to have missed out on a significant portion of it related to critical thinking skills. I understand that, as a conservative, he finds repugnant liberal reliance on logic, reason and intellect. Otherwise, he would not toss a number of disassociated facts together as if they somehow proved a point.

I give him credit for correctly pointing out Sheila Keuhl's single-payer plan to provide affordable and universal healthcare along with lower medical costs. But then he backs the president's healthcare proposal, which, if implemented, does none of these. So much for solving a "clear and present danger."

Somehow our legal logic says that the government must provide those services to its incarcerated, law-breaking citizens, but those services seemingly should not apply to its law-abiding ones. We should pay to have that occur but cannot use that same method to provide the same benefits to ourselves. Interesting.

— Lynn H. Maxson, Simi Valley