In Tulsa, the life expectancy for a patient that lives North of I-244 is 14 years less than the rest of the city. Is it that everyone who lives North of the Interstate makes unhealthy choices? No. The issue is access. For every 1 physician up North, there are 40 in the South portion of the city, there are ZERO hospitals and nearly 90% of the area does not have access to fresh fruits, vegetables or even a grocer within 3 miles.

In terms of regulating healthcare, my point is if you are going to spend $1 Trillion dollars on something and tell me its to save American lives, you could save many millions of lives more just by shifting the focus to what is truly costing American lives.

Our healthcare expenditures are double (per person) what any other country in the world spends yet we still have a lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality than ALL other industrialized nations. As I said before…let that sink in.