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# 30:

12:09 pm PST, Nov 10, American Patriot, Pennsylvania

# 29:

5:50 pm PDT, Oct 23, Name not displayed, Minnesota

# 28:

2:27 pm PDT, Oct 22, Sylvia Tyree, Oregon

# 27:

11:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Leslie Fletcher, Florida
I work and pay taxes of around 18 to 20% of my income and the tax dollars support Medicare and Medicaid. Lower Middle Blue collar people like myself have NO ACCESS to health care except the ER, which cannot adequately manage ongoing basic health care and is not designed to. Let us have Medicaid and if we can afford to pay on a sliding scale, that's OK! Any kind of health care access is better than NONE. P.S. I will declare bankruptcy due to having emergency gall bladder surgery last spring, the total cost of that episode is $90,000. Debt collectors call me day & night, every day all day. Please help middle America!

# 26:

7:24 pm PDT, Oct 19, Regina Martin-Rodger, Pennsylvania
We need the single payer option. We need caps on premiums and price control.

# 24:

5:30 am PDT, Oct 19, Can Atik, Turkey

# 23:

4:42 am PDT, Oct 19, Name not displayed, Oregon
The "insurance" business model does not deliver health care well. It delivers reimbursement well for anomaly events, like random house fires for a large pool of people who have statistically only a few claims amongst them over a long period of time. "Insurance" is the appropriate choice to spread risk of an unlikely loss, and prevent a potential bankruptcy. However, delivering health care requires a business model that is publicly funded, flexible, provides consistent, paperless, and dependable customer health care services seamlessly, and effortlessly with health care facilities. Health care needs increase and decrease throughout a humans life, irrespective of their finances. Health care provided well must be delivered with a business model that matches humans health care needs. There are many business models to study from all over the world that provide health care well. First, the USA needs to figure out a new business model, one that matches the customer service it is trying to deliver, health care. Second, within the new "Health Care" business model framework, decide what entities, be it public or private combinations, meet consumers health care needs best. The "insurance" business model was not meant to deliver health care services well, and it hasn't! It's time to move forward...toward "health care" and away from insurance!

# 22:

6:22 pm PDT, Oct 18, Amy King, Minnesota

# 21:

2:41 pm PDT, Oct 18, Terry Hodgin, Oregon

# 20:

8:33 am PDT, Oct 18, Elisabeth Kelly, Maryland

# 19:

7:28 am PDT, Oct 18, Mary Dawson, Missouri

# 18:

6:38 am PDT, Oct 18, Carol Tessier, Massachusetts

# 17:

5:12 am PDT, Oct 18, Carol Carter, Michigan
If there's not a public option, the insurance compaines will take everyone's rates to the sky. Please reconsider a public option, and stop the monopoly of the insurance compaines. No more exempting them from anti-trust laws, this exemption hurts us all.

# 16:

2:26 am PDT, Oct 18, Becky Le compte, Texas

# 15:

2:06 am PDT, Oct 18, Steve Klein, Virginia

# 14:

12:59 am PDT, Oct 18, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece

# 13:

11:23 pm PDT, Oct 17, Norm Conrad, Washington

# 12:

7:51 pm PDT, Oct 17, Jane Oberlander, Washington

# 11:

6:31 pm PDT, Oct 17, Kyle S, New Jersey

# 10:

6:03 pm PDT, Oct 17, Gabriella Sanchez, New Jersey

# 9:

2:00 pm PDT, Oct 17, Deanna Ross, Arizona
We also need to afford nutriceuticals that do not have the same side effects that pharmaceuticals do. We need health care options such as acupuncture, counseling, homeopathy, naturopathic and chiropractic treatments. My back was broken and I had other accident injuries that a chiropractor took care of and I was better almost immediately. We need access to alternative care. Insurance is not health care, it is the bureaucracy which gives permission for treatment or not, paying for the services our premiums are regularly deducted to pay for... insurance is not health care. We don't want insurance. We want healthcare, and a single payer option non-profit option is still the best creative alternative around.

If the co-pays could be accumulated and the 30$ profit on the top that insurance companies make thrown in, if we could retract the wasted and missing millions documented "unaccounted for" from Haliburton/KBR contracts overseas, and the billions paid out for lobbying every day by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, we'd easily pay for healthcare. They are invested in keeping us captive. Legislators need to think outside the "insurance box". But the lobbying has been working for big pharma and big insurance.

# 8:

12:56 pm PDT, Oct 17, Barbara Brown, Florida

# 7:

10:14 am PDT, Oct 17, Name not displayed, California
for us citizens only; no illegals, etc.

# 6:

10:09 am PDT, Oct 17, Carlos Gomez, Florida

# 5:

7:52 am PDT, Oct 17, David N Moore, Connecticut

# 4:

6:21 am PDT, Oct 17, Martin Kornbluh, New York

# 3:

3:47 am PDT, Oct 17, Bill C, Germany

# 2:

1:18 am PDT, Oct 17, Albert Torcaso, Pennsylvania

# 1:

1:17 am PDT, Oct 17, Carole Hagen, Oregon

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