you want to go first
well i believe that the um the voice that uh initialized this call asked about uh if we thought that it should be something that
should be put into action
yeah like the government if should the government make it universal or something like that
yes i i i i would be committed to that
uh-huh you you would be in favor of it
because
oh definitely yes
uh-huh uh-huh
i know that there are many countries that um
are very successful with the operation of the government uh providing that plan
uh-huh
do they have options on who they
uh you know like choices of doctors and that type of thing
do you
um i'm not sure what how their program is run but i know it has been successful
uh-huh
and i would really have to uh read the history of
probably i uh the country that has faired very well with it i'd like to see the uh
the data on that
uh-huh that's the way with me i don't know a whole lot about it i would that's the only concern i would have because i think personalities
plus the type of doctor it is has a lot to do with the care
and if you didn't have any choice
on you know on who you go to
well i
yes i think that's primary is if you have a good relationship
uh-huh
with your doctor that you can feel free to discuss
uh-huh
anything with him
uh-huh
and uh
or to change even like if you didn't approve or didn't think you were getting good service
oh absolutely that the choice would be yours
uh-huh
um given the proper guidelines for your health
uh-huh
that you should be able to make um a choice there
uh-huh that that's one of my main concerns i i have a friend that has
their boy has been sick for several months and they just have found out what's the trouble and they have gone through
uh one two three four five doctors and then a team of doctors
and they finally determined what the problem was it took that long
yes and the expense of that yes
and that that something like that you know i thought if you couldn't change or
look elsewhere
you know for help
if you want i don't know how that program works you know if you can do that
well i would i would think that they would have that as part part of the benefit
uh-huh
to the health care program that you would indeed have a choice
uh-huh
that you could select that individual yourself
uh-huh
and i'm sure that they would have a history of each doctor
and hopefully that they would have their um
accreditations there too
um-hum
i guess that's that's primarily was one of my thoughts you know because you know how government is
yes um
but those guidelines have to be set up and i think they should be voted on by the public
uh-huh
and uh
for them to have a choice on
uh-huh uh-huh
if they're in favor of it or not
right yes
and of course they would give a full plan of what their intentions would be and
it it would
um
i think that's
primary uh for the health if they were going to have a universal health care plan
um-hum
uh-huh
that uh they would have all the facts and the figures and uh
what it would mean to each individual family and uh and individual
uh-huh
perhaps being single
uh-huh
huh
um i'm not sure what else that uh
we could address uh on health care
um
other than the fact i think um
the eyes and the ears and the uh whole self should be uh
uh included in all of that uh dental eye care and uh our body as a whole should be included in that because
uh-huh
uh
uh-huh
there are so many avenues that needs to be um
undertaken in a program like that
um
i wouldn't want to have to go for a private doctor for
anything and not be covered by the program
uh-huh i know where my son works they have uh an option
right now where they can have their own physician or they can choose one that their company
has elected
uh-huh
and that costs them less
if they take the doctor that the
that the company has selected
and does he have an option uh if he doesn't care for the personality
he get
well only to the point that he could go to somebody at his own expense
oh i see
otherwise he would you know he has to take the physician that uh and the hospital that the company has chosen as their
um
you know the one they have taken
and their again i mean he's gotten good service he took the less expensive one of course
well if he's pleased with it i guess that's uh the bottom line
uh-huh
so but i i would be afraid of what would happen if you had a personality conflict or something
uh
right right yeah
yeah cause there's always that opposite story there
uh because that's the first i've really
known anybody that you know works for somebody that they had that option
you know to make the choice of what kind of insurance policy they what kind of hospitalization they wanted to take
uh-huh
it's quite different from when i was uh
under doctor's care that's for sure
uh-huh
i'm i'm very thankful that i'm not under any doctor's care
oh if you have your health you're wealthy you really are yeah
that's right
yes
uh we live in a rural area up here
uh-huh what part of uh Pennsylvania do you live in
uh are you familiar with any of the area at all
well i have a brother that lives there
where
uh near uh Philadelphia
oh well that's that's a ways away but we live in Clarion County
okay
uh we have a cousin that lives in Philadelphia
and uh
are you a native Pennsylvanian
yes uh-huh
okay so
i'm a former Michiganian so
oh uh-huh that's a nice state
yes it is it's very lovely it's a very lovely state
so i suppose really our situation here is even different that it is in you know like more populated areas
uh-huh uh-huh i'm sure it is uh-huh
as far as uh
the doctors that are available
of course we have good physicians here too we've been pretty fortunate
we've had some of the most outstanding doctors in our area
for some of the different fields
uh-huh
so uh we've been pretty fortunate um-hum
that has broadened so much also
oh yeah
that is the fields that you know are opening up are
um just phenomenal they
uh-huh
i mean look at the AIDS uh case you know i mean they
uh-huh
that's a whole new
field in itself it's just
oh yeah
in itself it's just it's an auto immune deficiency but it sure is a dilly one
uh-huh
it sure is i still wish they could do more with the cancer situation though
yes i do too
they uh they just don't seem to be i know they're making progress but not like
that i would like to see yeah yeah
to eradicate it entirely yeah
well there's guidelines that people have to follow and if they're determined to uh have their cigarettes and the other uh
uh-huh
carcinogenic causing items then
uh-huh
how do you teach them i guess you would
but a majority a lot of them don't do these things even and it doesn't seem to matter
that's true too it's i i i really believe our environment have a lot to do with it
so uh it real
uh-huh
well they say second hand smoke and that is worse than smoking so so what do you do you know
yeah
well you just have to ban the smoking to their to their little room that they want to
yeah yeah take their rights away from them they say i never had the desire so i haven't ever had that problem
as far as that goes
um-hum um-hum
i can't take any credit for not smoking either
so
well it's a bad habit that's
it's hard to break it's a hard one to quit
that
yes it's they say that it is
yeah
well it was nice talking with you
yes very nice talking to you too and you have a good day
and
well you do the same and uh we'll be talking i guess talking around the country
right okay
okay you bye-bye
um bye bye
