To the editor:
In an Examiner guest column last Saturday (“Stop the madness? No, you stop the madness”) Fred Rapp addressed “health care for all” and speaks of many things that I agree with. The idea of one record/person as a health-care solution that has been offered by many agents, including Mr. Patterson, CEO of Cerner Corp. (hospital administration-records) and foreign government agents, and that is to centralize health-care records for one person at one office.
Mr. Rapp says he was spending $1000 a month for health insurance, but had no one to speak for him! I have an example that helps show his condition is common. My son, age 54, died May 2009 after a year of severe illness, many exams, lab test-screenings, doctor appointments and in/out of three hospital stays. In all this time there was no central control of his sickness on record. (Some medical suggestion would be written, then my son follows it.) Then came all the bills for payment, while he was unable to care for himself. It ended with his loss of retirement, benefits, insurance and his life!
Don’t talk to me about freedom of choice for health care! I grew up in the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s. We lived day to day, only the young and healthy survived. I have served in World War II, 1950 in Korean conflict and supported the Vietnam conflict. The core of human existence has been that we help each other or the tribe/village/nation will not survive!
