BUSH, GORE HEALTH-CARE PLANS FAR FROM ADEQUATE.(MAIN)

Byline: JAIME R. TORRES, DPM Chief, Podiatric Services Coler Memorial Hospital New York

In response to your April 16 editorial ``Health-care quandary'':

The health-care proposals of Bush and Gore are tantamount to ensuring that there are a few more lifeboats on the Titanic -- they will not save a sinking ship. Neither one eliminates the fact that we have more than 44 million uninsured, 70 million without a drug-benefit plan, and a system that limits care so that a few can get rich.

Stated simply, our health-care system doesn't work. Eli Siegel, the great philosopher and founder of …