Hopkins gift nice, but we need more med schools

Mr. Bloomberg’s $1 billion gift to provide free tuition to Hopkins medical students will undoubtedly help many deserving students attend medical school who might not otherwise be financially able to do so and increase diversity in the medical profession (Bloomberg’s $1 billion gift makes Johns Hopkins free for most medical students, July 8).

Unfortunately, the benefit will be limited to a relatively small segment of the healthcare system.

What the American healthcare system really needs is a much larger and more diverse supply of physicians to care for a growing and aging population and replace us aging baby boomer physicians who are retiring in droves, a trend recently accelerated by COVID-19.

I think the focus should be on funding new medical schools or financially supporting the expansion of current schools to meet this need.

I struggle every day to find specialists and primary care providers to care for my patients.

Only a handful of new medical schools have come online in the last 50 years. Mr. Bloomberg and others so richly endowed should consider funding new institutions. Every new seat becomes a new opportunity to care for more Americans, including those least able to access high-quality, affordable health care.

— Dr. Frederick Kuhn, Kingsville

Moore’s support for Biden is disappointing

I am extremely disappointed that Gov. Wes Moore is continuing to support President Joe Biden despite the very obvious decline that the president is experiencing.

Biden has become arrogance and defensiveness in his refusal to acknowledge what we have all observed.

The Democratic Party has so much talent. Vice President Kamala Harris is my choice as she is ready to go. She had more experience than former President Barack Obama had when entering the White House. I have total trust in the vice president’s ability to lead our nation.

I have absolutely no trust in the ability of President Biden to lead our nation and I believe he should resign immediately for the good of our nation.

I hope that Governor Moore will be part of the solution rather than being a key player in the problem.

I appreciate the many accomplishments of President Biden, but now is the time to move on.

— Edward McCarey McDonnell, Baltimore

Md. will vote blue, but what about rest of U.S.?

I agree with the many letter writers who urge us all to vote in November to save our democracy (Supreme Court immunity ruling feeds fears, draws fire, July 8). I have no doubt that a large majority of blue-state Marylanders will vote for whoever ends up running against Donald Trump.

But what about the rest of the country? Every time my wife and I visit the grandkids in central Pennsylvania, I’m reminded that millions of Americans are so busy with jobs and raising kids that politics isn’t even an afterthought. Many good people don’t have the time, or haven’t made the time, to become fully informed about the threats Trump poses or the monarchical power the Supreme Court’s immunity decision would grant him.

Democratic strategists need to do whatever it takes to get through to non-MAGA Republicans, independents and even unengaged Democrats that their daily lives will take a dramatic turn for the worse if Trump is elected this fall.

— Herb Cromwell, Catonsville

America is stuck in neutral gear

Many of your readers are staunchly supporting President Joe Biden, despite his gradual mental deterioration. What some of your readers fail to conceptually grasp is that both the president and Donald Trump are extremely flawed individuals.

America, the great country that it is, is stuck in neutral. The wheels are spinning but the vehicle is going nowhere.

The world awaits what’s around the next corner in America. If there was ever a time in the annals of the history of our nation for our enemies to take advantage of our vulnerable nation, that time is here and now. It’s scary to ponder what will unfold the next few months for our nation.

The first lady, Jill Biden, is at the control board. Only she can determine the next measure the president will make. I keep thinking about how dangerous the accrual of power changes people, usually in a negative vein.

— Patrick R. Lynch, Towson