Gordon Clay here. We're stuck in a political system that is based on, I'm not sure what (35 miles between Critical Care units, and a Pony Express system that said 27 miles is the maximum distance between stops for horses. So, every 27 miles of the Oregon coast is a town. Now, if 27 miles is a good distance for a horse, might that be the parameter we use to say that's a good distance person in critical condition to last. Under Federal law, the maximum distance from center point, between critical care units is 17.5 miles plus the miles you live off Hwy 101. But that's 17.5 miles both ways - to get the ambulance to you and to get to the critical care unit. And, it could be more. Cutting it down to 25 miles or 12.5 miles each way could easily be the different between someone surviving or someone living with brain damage for the rest of their life, if they live through it in the first place. What the federal law basically says for coastal Oregonians, is that other towns only need to be 35 miles apart. You get the privilege of being 54 miles apart, all because federal law doesn't realize how our coast was set up in the first place. It's time they learned.