Dear editor:

As policy makers in Washington hammer out the big issues on health care reform, they must not forget to provide practical solutions to many of the less publicized, smaller benefits that provide care to frail, silent populations, such as home oxygen patients.

The average home oxygen therapy patient is an elderly woman in her 70s, who lives alone. As a home oxygen therapy provider, who has been working to provide home oxygen to chronically ill patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) and other lung diseases for more than 24 years, I underst...

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