Phil Barnhart
State Representative
Central Lane and Linn Counties
I woke up early on a Saturday morning last March in excruciating pain. My wife called an ambulance and minutes later I was in the hospital emergency room. By 6 a.m. the emergency room physician had diagnosed my problem as acute appendicitis, by noon the surgeon had it out, and five days later I was recovering at home.
I had health insurance that paid most of…