Health care is private

As a retired family nurse practitioner, there were two issues in Sunday's Deseret News that I would like to address.

First, the shortage of family practice health care in Utah could and should be resolved rather easily by the Legislature eliminating the turf battle waged by organized medicine. We were able to do it in Oregon in the late 1970s, and it has been done in many states since.

Second, health care is a very private part of our lives. To force a bureaucrat into a private relationship is not an insignificant thing. The cost is much greater than the money. It is one of the reasons I retired after 31 years. Government is already in all our relationships. What's next, our bedrooms?

Gordon Jay Butler

Roy