Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

My background is in health care.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.