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I had not intended to say anything tonight. It's
very personal what I do have to say. About 35 years ago,
a child was born to my wife at Davis Hospital. This child
was what they call a blue baby. At that time, the medical
profession -----in medicine were not enough to save that
child. That child lived eight months to the day. Nothing
could be done for that child. But today, after 35 years,
and some of the doctors can correct me on this, so many
of the blue babies are saved due to the advances of the
medical profession.
That was 35 years ago. What will happen 35 years
from now? What miracles will be done in medicine? Frankly,
I don't care if my taxes go up, I don't care if I have
to personally go in debt to help pay somebody else's
hospital bill. I think it's high time, gentlemen, that
we do improve the hospitals in our community and our
neighborhood. And I don't know, I haven't asked a question,
but has any hospital in our county defaulted on any bonds
yet? I don't know, but even if they have had to default
on the bonds, like the man said, it's precious little
to have to pay for a life. I'd like to know, too, how
many lives have been lost because a patient or accident
victim was taken to one of our local hospitals and they
didn't have the machinery, yes machinery, to save that
person's life. They had to send it, like Myrtle said,
76 miles away. well, 39 miles, 49 miles, is a precious
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