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Pledge to Higher Quality, Lower Cost Health Care

Sponsored by: Consumers Union

Americans spend more on health care than people do elsewhere, but somehow we spend more for less.

Most of us have no clue about the actual cost of our medical care until the bills arrive, because hospitals and doctors don’t publish their charges. The cost of insurance goes up and up, with fewer services covered. Millions of Americans needlessly suffer or die from preventable medical errors and infections.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Costs can come down and quality can improve if we stop letting the insurance companies run the show, make billing clear and simple, and focus on prevention and managing chronic illness better.

You can make a difference by taking our pledge and joining our effort to make health care a top priority for our nation’s leaders, no matter who wins the election.

THE PLEDGE:
I want to join with other Americans to support action, answers and accountability. It is time to:

Give my family security that we will have quality care when we need it at a cost we can afford;
Make hospitals and doctors more transparent about the cost and quality of care they offer;
Elmininate unnecessary bureaucracy between patients and the care they need;
End long waits for care;
Examine all solutions that will ensure all Americans access to quality, affordable care, with input from real people like me.

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# 8,050:

6:47 pm PDT, Aug 27, Christine Porter, Florida

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6:44 pm PDT, Aug 27, John Burns, Florida

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6:31 pm PDT, Aug 27, Sharon Dennis, Maryland

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6:28 pm PDT, Aug 27, Lance Soderstrom, Michigan

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6:26 pm PDT, Aug 27, BT Quigley, Indiana

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6:26 pm PDT, Aug 27, Craig Wright, Iowa

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6:20 pm PDT, Aug 27, Jessica Pritt, West Virginia

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6:05 pm PDT, Aug 27, Riley Mitchell, Alabama

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5:55 pm PDT, Aug 27, Mary Beth Brown, Florida

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5:55 pm PDT, Aug 27, Shannon Reardon, Florida

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5:49 pm PDT, Aug 27, Pamela Ernde, California

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5:42 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Florida
Affordable healthcare -- and healthcare, period -- should be an American rite. A necessity that is long overdue.

# 8,038:

5:38 pm PDT, Aug 27, Cynthia Huspek, Illinois

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5:28 pm PDT, Aug 27, Trishia Maruri, California

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5:26 pm PDT, Aug 27, Michele Soderstrom, Michigan

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5:23 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Florida

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5:22 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Florida

# 8,033:

5:07 pm PDT, Aug 27, Jack Merreighn, Illinois

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5:05 pm PDT, Aug 27, Marianne Lang, Arkansas
I don't understand why we can't have socialized health care. My Dad lives in Germany, and he is doing great with it and so is his wife. Everyone is equal, and everyone gets equal care, and he made it to 89 and still going. I doubt I will be that lucky with our healthcare system.

# 8,031:

5:02 pm PDT, Aug 27, Skyeanna Malito, Oregon

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4:51 pm PDT, Aug 27, Jeanne Nordland, California

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4:47 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Colorado

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4:47 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Kansas

# 8,027:

4:38 pm PDT, Aug 27, Allen Poppert, Oregon
Are we a nation to emulate or moving to third world status? Cuba even has health care for all! We can do better... Show America & the world we are not owned by corporate interest & you are not bought off! Yes- it is tough. Do what is RIGHT!!!

# 8,026:

4:37 pm PDT, Aug 27, Cathy Stowe, Indiana

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4:34 pm PDT, Aug 27, Lesley Tan, Georgia

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4:28 pm PDT, Aug 27, Kelly Ordway, Montana

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4:26 pm PDT, Aug 27, Lauren Breunig, Vermont

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4:23 pm PDT, Aug 27, Emily Smith, North Carolina

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4:21 pm PDT, Aug 27, Samantha Weber, Pennsylvania

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4:20 pm PDT, Aug 27, Sam Barrett, Texas

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4:20 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Florida

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4:18 pm PDT, Aug 27, Patricia J. Hagge, Minnesota

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3:50 pm PDT, Aug 27, Charlotte Storto, New York
i FEEL THAT THE WORKING FAMILY AND ELDERLY PAY ENOUGH IN TAXES AND MEDICAL COST. tHE ELDERLY WORK ALL THEIR LIVES AND THEN GOD FOR BID THAT THEY NED TO GO TO A NURSING HOME. THE COST FOR A NURSING HOME IS OUTRAGOUS. THE ELDERLY HAVE TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAVE WORKED FOR ALL THIER LIVES JUST TO GET THE CARE THEY NEED IF THE CHILDREN CAN NOT AFFORD TO PAY FOR THEY CAN NOT HAVE ANY THING BUT 50.00 FROM ALL OF THEIR INCOME FOR A MONTH AS LONG AS THEY ARE IN A NURSING HOME. NOT ONLY THAT THEY HAVE TO CASH IN ALL LIFE INSURANCE THAT THEY HAVE AND LIVE OFF OF THE MONEY THAT IT BRINGS IN. THEY MAY HAVE 4000.00 IN ASSETS BUT NO MORE. MONTHLY INCOME IS TURNED OVER ALL BUT THE 50.00 THAT THEY ARE ALLOWED. THAT IS WRONG PRISONERS CAN GET FREE EDUCATION, FREE MEALS, FREE ROOM AND BOARD, BUT OUR ELDERLY PEOPLE OR SPECIAL NEEDS PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE.WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.

# 8,016:

3:43 pm PDT, Aug 27, Brooke Vetter, Minnesota

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3:38 pm PDT, Aug 27, Danielle Payne, Indiana

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3:36 pm PDT, Aug 27, Melissa Kalodner, Nevada
I am a doctor who now has to stop taking insurance because it pays so low that I can not provide my clients with the care they need.

# 8,013:

3:28 pm PDT, Aug 27, Lucinda Inzunza, Nevada

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3:25 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

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3:10 pm PDT, Aug 27, Berl McCuaig, Colorado

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3:02 pm PDT, Aug 27, Rebecca Hatchettt, Arizona
How can it make sense to anyone, for one of the wealthiest Countries, to have one of the very worst Health Care Systems??

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3:01 pm PDT, Aug 27, Susanna Weil, Pennsylvania

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2:57 pm PDT, Aug 27, Lisa Penree Powers, New York
I work in health care and can barely afford my families medications. I see such disparity among my patients that I want to cry sometimes. I find it amazing that in the finest country in the world, our own citizens die or at least live a much less productive, quality filled life due to health care not be accessible by everyone.

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2:46 pm PDT, Aug 27, Vera Fuller, Florida
If we can pay for other country to have health care. then why can't we?

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2:40 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, New York

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2:31 pm PDT, Aug 27, Linda Walser, California
I have been a direct recipient to urgent health care needs as a Hepatitis C Patient. I came up against administrative muck and inefficiencies of the system immediately in not being able to start treatment for over six months despite that I was in the throws of a chronic illness. The system MUST change so that medications can be expedited in a timely fashion. As a diagnosed patient under private insurance, this intensive treatment was to cost me over $60,000 Ironically, I was soon laid off, so was put on medical disability, where a low income patient care program became available. I was blessed there. All services though were mired in time consuming, mind numbing beauracracy, and the system must be re-designed to serve the patient rather than confuse and incure exhorbident costs, that take years for most patients to pay off.

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2:25 pm PDT, Aug 27, Catherine Small, Texas

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2:19 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Arkansas
To many people in my family don't have health care.I even had to go without it for a year and a half.It just isn't right that people that work hard and has a setback have nowhere to turn for health care.And Cobra cost way to much for most people.

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2:19 pm PDT, Aug 27, Rev. Marge Ragona, Alabama

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2:17 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Illinois
As an uninsurable American, breast cancer 25 years ago, I find it an abomination that someone other than my doctor can have so much power and control over my medical decisions. We need a health care system that allows access to all Americans.

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