Dear Editor:  Often when the media (particularly CNN) reports on
providing relief to beleaguered taxpayers by reducing
governmental expenditures in various economic sectors, including
the health-care sector, pundits suggest that a one-dollar
reduction in governmental funding will necessarily result in a
one-dollar reduction in the delivery of actual services to
patients.  One wonders how many expenditure line items there are
in the budget of those entities that operate in the medical
sector. For example, many local and national health-care
providers unabashedly subscribe to deluxe boxes at various
sports venues, advertise lavishly on television, radio, sports
stadiums and the printed media. Is it too much to suggest that
those, and other budgetary espenses of health-care providers
should be considered for elimination or reduction in order to
more efficiently and effectively assure that revenues flow to
patient care?  Very truly yours,  Charles W. Stopp, Esquire
Attorney at Law  Box 159 Slatington