  We compare our previously proposed hard-thermal-loop (HTL) resummed
calculation of quark number susceptibilities using a self-consistent two-loop
approximation to the quark density with a recent calculation of the same
quantity at the one-loop level in a variant of HTL-screened perturbation
theory. Besides pointing out conceptual problems with the latter approach, we
show that it severely over-includes the leading-order interaction effects while
including none of the plasmon term which after all is the reason to construct
improved resummation schemes.
