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Readers discuss a guest essay calling on people to have more sex. Also: A G.O.P. message; the World Bank; Latinos in Hollywood; rewriting Roald Dahl.

Herbert Rakatansky is clinical professor of medicine, emeritus at Brown University. Several issues in the recent article “How to build a bad health-care model” (Commentary, June 30) need clarification.  First, the author advocates building a better, nondiscriminatory health-care system that offers equal access to all for all illnesses, a laudable goal. Our ever expanding technology generates a constant increase of medical costs. While it serves justice to provide all treatment to all persons it may not be affordable. We must not downplay the difficulties of providing universal health car...

By Herbert Rakatansky On the front page of The Providence Journal recently (Jan.1) was a photo of a young woman pharmacist with a caption stating that she was getting a COVID vaccination. Why was this newsworthy? Well, due in part, to a distrust in science, especially in minority and disadvantaged populations, where previous experience has taught that such lack of trust is justified, a large percentage of our population are refusing to be vaccinated.  The best-selling book, “Sapiens,” points out that humans, utilizing systems of shared beliefs, are the only animals with the ability to li...