To the Editor:

Re “Mexico Struggles to Realize the Promise of Universal Health Care” (news article, Jan. 30):

Now finalizing six years of effort, by September Mexico will have managed to enroll 51 million poor people in a government-sponsored health insurance program, effectively creating a universal health plan. As a result, lives have already been saved, cancers treated, cataracts removed, H.I.V. medicated and babies cared for.

Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Representative Paul Ryan and all your Republican comrades, so eager to deny uninsured Americans decent health care: if our far less affluent neighbors to the south can afford health care for all, why can’t the most affluent nation in the world?

Arthur L. Yeager

Edison, N.J., Jan. 30, 2011