I want President Barack Obama to know that I am an 81-year old retired CPA in Ogden.
I have had various medical problems during my lifetime to which I have always tried to apply alternative medicine solutions. Now a mammogram indicates that I have probable breast cancer.
Six years ago I bought a Terraquant soft Laser to fight chronic back and hip pain which has worked very successfully. This soft Laser machine is used overseas to cure cancer very successfully. However, in the U.S. the use of soft Laser to treat cancer is illegal because of Food and Drug Administration regulations.
It makes no sense for Obama to be attempting to revamp Medicare and Medicaid to cut costs before you look at all the rules the FDA has in place to protect the profits of the big pharmaceutical companies and which prohibit many alternative care procedures which work very well.
I urge Obama to back off on the path he chosen to bring down health care costs until he explores the many idiocies the FDA has in place regarding treatments that actually work such as soft laser.
There is much waste and graft within the Medicare system. As a long-time CPA I am going on record that these abuses must be addressed before any new health care legislation will ever accomplish what you want it to accomplish. Correct the system, President Obama, and then pass new laws.
Dorothy E. Littrell, CPA
Ogden
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