Taking care of our citizens

Editor,

Jim Elliot’s recent op-ed explaining how we can vote against ourselves and our best interests and the article about how the community turned out to help Randy Pirker raise money for very expensive medical treatment was ironic.

We applaud and support the community that comes together to help out one of our own. Can someone explain why we would not have a health care system that really took CARE of our citizens? The additional irony for this is that the representatives we vote into office are all well provided for health wise at our expense.

Rusti and Ole Leivestad,

Trout Creek