As a child in a previous century, I sometimes got to go with my dad on his visits to farmers in central Minnesota. I learned to drive a stick-shift car on those country roads. We often had supper with small gatherings of local farmers' families. I recall on one trip the local people were commiserating over the loss of a neighbor farmer to an apparent heart attack. When he collapsed in his field there were no EMTs or an ambulance service to rush him to a clinic or hospital, and possibly save his life.
Today, more than seventy-five years later, we read about new hospitals, services, health insurance and clinics and enormous executive salaries. And there is still no ambulance or EMT service within 100 miles of that farmstead. Why is that? Ask your federal, state and local candidates that question in this election time. Isn't that just as important as who goes to the White House?
