Durango Health comments

In this article, it is evident that many are trying to address the health care issue from a standpoint that we must accept certain condition's that are layed down in health care itself, then instead of working together to find an acceptable solution, we turn to party infighting and distort the reason we are protesting the actions of the current administration.

The health care issue must be addressed in a different way, and we must do so in an intelligent manner that will not side track our communities with party infighting. It is my belief that we need to look at health care from a stand point that ignores what is legislature now, and this can only be done by starting at the bottom, with nothing and ask ourselves, what would satisfy a parent in preventing health issue's within our families.

I suggest that every community work together in addressing health care from a preventive nature. What would be an acceptable program for preventive medicine and develop the program, then address the cost, an example; One of my sons friend died from an undiagnosed heart defect, he was active in sports and had a sport physical every year, but never made it to the hospital. I wrote the American Heart assoc. and asked them questions and made suggestion's, they replied that we could do more to find defects that are not visible with the current standards. Several actions that we could take, are to add an EKG and vital organ sonogram to look for defects, the cost could be minimized by forming a volunteer network of doctors and nurses that will go to the schools and do the physicals in volume to offset the increased cost of doing the physicals at a walk in clinic.

This action could also be done as a standard physical for normal child check ups at least three times in a child development to adulthood. There are other options we can consider if we turn from the anger we have for government, develop acceptable programs and organize them as proposed legislature, then present them in a way that if our representatives say no, they can expect to be replaced in the next election.

I hope to be such a person that will place our work before Congress and push to adopt law's that Colorado and America can trust to serve our interest's, and in the best tradition of the Constitution. Please consider my campaign and trust that i will work for you.