HEALTH: This isn't greatness

For all the folks out there selfishly arguing the merits of American health care. Please stop and read section C page 1 of Friday’s (July 28) paper, “Waiting to breathe.” How can the “Greatest country in the world” allow Miss Heisel and her family to be required to raise any amount of money to save her life?

I wonder if John McCain paid for his operation out of his pocket?

JEFF (not the lawyer) OWENS

Coeur d’Alene