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Selected Letters to the Editor regarding Lyme Disease and related infections. 

The information in these letters could very well
be useful to you in understanding why it is politically incorrect and financially disadvantageous
for medical professionals and HMO's to diagnosis you properly and treat this disease to your
detriment.

Oregon Health Care Town Hall
Re: Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) – lack of access to care

I am a Washington resident but receive most of my health care in Oregon. For many years I was a
Kaiser member but was f
orced to change health plans when the infectious diseases clinicians at
Kaiser flatly
refused me a Lyme disease diagnosis. A very brief history follows.........

Letter to the Editor - Marin Independent Journal
http://lyme.kaiserpapers.org/marinindependent.html


Re; "Unproved Lyme Disease Tests Prompt Warnings"
By Dan Hurley and Marc Santora

September 12 , 2005

Letter to the New York Times 
http://lyme.kaiserpapers.org/nytimesart.html
-August, 2005
Re; 'Unproved Lyme Disease Tests Prompt Warnings'  By Dan Hurley and Marc Santora