Free medical care invites abuse, says writer

I am a retired hospital pharmacist who for 37 years had his own small-town pharmacy. After I sold my pharmacy, I was the hospital pharmacist for a small rural hospital. I just read your article on hypertension and the senior population needing high-touch hypertension care.

What you say is correct. What is wrong is another story. I have gone to several medical seminars in foreign countries, including one to the USSR shortly before it disbanded. Their medical system was straight out of the Middle Ages: 34 infants in the Ukraine had been given AIDS through a reused needle. They did not have dispo...