Our "broken" health care system

I was on the Internet for an hour last night taking part in a lung transplant chat group. There were men and women from all parts of the country who had suffered with all kinds of respiratory problems; COPD, IPF, CF, etc. I was the baby of the group, having had my transplant in May of 2008. One young lady had a double lung transplant in 1997. We talked about all manner of things. Our medications, our travel plans, our caregivers, our donor families. Our hopes and dreams for the future.

Think about it for a moment. You’re dying and then a team of doctors and nurses come along and replace your diseased lungs with healthy ones. Giving you a new life. Absolutely incredible!

I’m sure there are improvements we can make in our health care system, but if Washington thinks we have to replace it with a government bureaucracy, there’s something in Washington that’s broken.