I, Dick Johnson submit the following as a citizen/consumer in Maryland who has on a grassroots level petitioned the Maryland legilature for a Pubilc and Private aeromedical partnerships. Public and Private aeromedical agencies need to cooperate in order to obtain the most efficient coverage for Maryland Citizens.

I have created a web site: www.medevacmdsurcharge.com. Home Page, the issues, Audio covering legislative hearings and exhibits.

Maryland's Medevac System and MVA Surcharge A Promise Broken, is a first in a series which addresses the ever increasing State taxes, MVA Surcharge, Surcharge to Augument the MVA Surcharge and the Flawed Governance Structure of Maryland's Trauma/EMS Systems.

Exhibits on the web site also includes State auditor reports covering the Maryland state Police Aviation Command, emails, Examples: Maryland State Police admission crashing their helicopter into the wall of the R Adams Cowley shock trauma Center and Our Mission is ALS not Critical Care.

Also, I have expressed in writting to the Maryland legislature, what appears to be Maryland State Police Aviation Command's faulty maintenance tail section broken off, helicopter door falling off and a $788,000.00 helicopter crash, it is not the helicopter. Helicopter maintenance in a down-spiral.

Legislative Audios: Maryland State Police Aviation Command, very poor response times, response time getting longer, No show to a scene delayed in calling commercial helicopter 2 patients expire at the scene and one airlifted by a commercial helicopter, non-emergency flights and the majority of medevacs are nonlife-thretening injury flights, etc, etc.

This grassroots citizen over the past 22 years has researched Maryland's EMS/Trayuma systems. What I have found, is that Maryland's legislature and those in power to sway policies are intoxicated in HYPE and PR left over from the R Adams Cowely era, What is frightening is that they belive in their HYPE and PR. The 1970's and 80's have come and gone. EMS and Trauma medicne is part of every day medicne period.