To the Editor:

Re “Where the Frauds Are All Legal,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal (Sunday Review, Dec. 8):

As a primary care physician for more than 35 years and the spouse of someone with a severe chronic illness, I find that medical billing has been at the very top of my list of what is wrong with medicine today.

I follow politics closely and have watched every Democratic debate and many interviews with the candidates. No one has raised this issue explicitly, and yet it looms large in the minds of those who pay attention.

Perhaps newfound money from ending overbilling could be used to support health care for all.

Talia Nunes Herman

Brookline, Mass.

To the Editor:

Hospitals are struggling financially to survive. The system has evolved over decades to best serve the public. It’s fine to critique it, but one must have a viable alternative.