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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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# 3,550:

3:26 am PDT, May 12, Jessica Lam, California

# 3,549:

3:07 am PDT, May 12, Kim Gelinas, Massachusetts

# 3,548:

2:58 am PDT, May 12, Jan Barosh, Hawaii
The best money we can spend is on health care and education. When we spend it, let's spend it wisely. Quality health care is less expensive in the long run. Focus on prevention with nutrition, exercise and education is also less expensive and can produce greater results.

# 3,547:

2:03 am PDT, May 12, Name not displayed, Louisiana
I'm a single, 61-yr-old mom to a 4-yr-old child and cannot afford health care for either her or me!

# 3,546:

1:36 am PDT, May 12, Karen Johnson, Florida

# 3,545:

12:46 am PDT, May 12, Parth Sarathi Mahapatra, India
It should be.

# 3,544:

12:38 am PDT, May 12, Toni Sokoloski, Massachusetts

# 3,543:

12:21 am PDT, May 12, Dorothy Baxter, Iowa
Doctors are more focused on treating the symptoms with DRUGS than finding the cause. If they focused on nutrition, there would be less diseases to threat. (clue) They would have fewer patients to make money off of. Drugs are big business and most of them cause side affects. One prescription results in another and another... and so on. Drug Companies have been known to pay some doctors big money to push their products. Insurance companies should all murge into one and reduce the cost to an income sliding-scale.

# 3,542:

12:14 am PDT, May 12, Laura Hoti, Connecticut

# 3,541:

12:07 am PDT, May 12, Marcia McAllister, Arkansas
Stop insurance companies from ruling Americans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 3,540:

12:03 am PDT, May 12, Name not displayed, California

# 3,539:

11:50 pm PDT, May 11, William Harper, Georgia

# 3,538:

11:41 pm PDT, May 11, Radha McAlpine, Florida

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11:25 pm PDT, May 11, Emily Martinez, Florida

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11:14 pm PDT, May 11, Sandra Zaccaria, New Jersey

# 3,535:

10:51 pm PDT, May 11, Maribel Tamargo, Puerto Rico

# 3,534:

10:47 pm PDT, May 11, Sarah Bone, New York

# 3,533:

10:46 pm PDT, May 11, Cara Johnson, Washington

# 3,532:

10:41 pm PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Arizona
I am a physician and know the value of choice and expert care at your fingertips when appropriate. I feel I know enough to fight for that now, but not everyone does. I do NOT want to lose my ability to have it in order for another to gain!

# 3,531:

10:39 pm PDT, May 11, Ian Sager, Arizona

# 3,530:

10:25 pm PDT, May 11, Brenda Pope, Washington
All Americans deserve higher quality, lower cost health care. This should not be only available to the wealthy but to everyone!!! Thank You!

# 3,529:

10:18 pm PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Louisiana
We should have universal coverage for every U.S. citizen. A competitive bidding process would be fair. It's absurd that other countries have this but not the U.S.

# 3,528:

10:17 pm PDT, May 11, . ., Illinois

# 3,527:

10:11 pm PDT, May 11, Linda Borcher, Utah

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10:06 pm PDT, May 11, Kelly Hurlbut, Arizona
The way we treat citizens of the United States is wrong because we leave them to fend for themself when it comes to health care. By doing this most people do not have health care unless it is offered by there job. My jobs health care is expensive and does not offer anything for the price. That is all I have to choose from as a hard working citizen of the USA. We need to make the prices of health care be equivelent to the price that is being charged to the consumer. Thank you for your time Kelly Hurlbut

# 3,525:

9:47 pm PDT, May 11, Maria Crowell, Illinois

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9:46 pm PDT, May 11, Cathie Ernst, California

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9:30 pm PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Florida

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9:27 pm PDT, May 11, Kristen Olsen, Michigan

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9:21 pm PDT, May 11, Sara Woodward, Washington

# 3,520:

9:21 pm PDT, May 11, Terry Maroney, Texas

# 3,519:

9:16 pm PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Illinois
It's unclear to me how we can allow the current shameful system to continue. People are dying needlessly, families are facing financial ruin, through no fault of their own. Every other developed nation has found a way to provide care to all of its citizens. Please help us do the same.

# 3,518:

9:12 pm PDT, May 11, Paul Akers, Colorado

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9:07 pm PDT, May 11, Tara Scott, Kentucky

# 3,516:

9:06 pm PDT, May 11, Brian Campopiano, California

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9:04 pm PDT, May 11, Kevin Murnane, New Jersey

# 3,514:

8:57 pm PDT, May 11, Pamela Phillips, Arkansas

# 3,513:

8:43 pm PDT, May 11, Megan Fartley, Connecticut
Hell I'll need it in a coulpe years ne wayz.

# 3,512:

8:36 pm PDT, May 11, Michelle Leifer, California

# 3,511:

8:32 pm PDT, May 11, Nell Hergenrather, California
We as americans shouldn't have to live in fear of an illness or accident that we can not afford. Taking care of the individual... takes care of the community.

# 3,510:

8:32 pm PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Arizona

# 3,509:

8:28 pm PDT, May 11, Michael Sandstrom, Tennessee

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8:28 pm PDT, May 11, Mike Ritter, Massachusetts
Our health insurance is very far from where it needs to be.

# 3,507:

8:22 pm PDT, May 11, Michelle Gannon, California
I dont get it. we have almost the same taxes as other countries that provide universal health care and yet we dont have that here in the US? Where is all of this money going?

# 3,505:

8:14 pm PDT, May 11, Jennifer Shaffer, Georgia
As a diabetic and with no insurance I face death every day. I havent seen a Dr. in almost 5 years because I can not afford. I am lucky Wal-Mart has their own brand of insulin and totally lucky their testing strips only cost one arm and not my leg. The system IS BACKWARDS!!! We need prevention, not care for when we are dying!

# 3,504:

8:13 pm PDT, May 11, John Andrews, California

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8:12 pm PDT, May 11, Terrance Sexton, Minnesota

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8:12 pm PDT, May 11, Genevieve Noble, Kentucky

# 3,501:

8:11 pm PDT, May 11, Gail Owens, Washington
The purpose of health care is NOT to create fat industries that limit care! Even the majority of doctors are now in favor or universal health care! (nurses always have been). Having MBA's dictating health procedures doesn't work!

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