A Useful Creed For Health Care

(The following letter to Congressman Chris Murphy has been received for publication.)

Dear Congressman Murphy:

Thank you for the email updates on health care forums, I appreciated the opportunity to speak at the Washington, Conn., Town Hall and attended the coffee in Danbury, where I spoke with a town council member who had worked to arrange your appearance there. He seemed familiar, reminding me of a Danbury Jaycee I knew. I am a lifetime member of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (J.C. Senator 5099) and have lived by the Jaycee Creed:

“We believe: That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life; that the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations; that economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise; the government should be laws rather than of men; the earth’s great treasure lies in human personality; and that service to humanity is the best work of life.”

This creed should be the basis of our approach to health care. The US government provides health care to veterans.

Three of my four older brothers served in the military in World War II (one was in training before Pearl Harbor), so I am familiar with the medical care offered at Veterans’ Hospitals.

I have long felt that local private hospitals, near to veterans’ homes, should replace the government-run facilities. To oversee quality of care veterans; family and friends make better patient advocates than a health czar in Washington. Healing is as much mental as it is physical.

I “think out of the box” and wish everyone would be open to creative ideas that do not reply on big governments.

I hope and believe your are as dedicated to preserving our individual and national freedoms as the men and women in our armed services do.

Sincerely,

Paul E. Allen

70 Mt Pleasant Road, Newtown                         September 30, 2009