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The only way to control escalating health costs, is to remove the medical insurance companies not-for-profit. Please look at the models, such as Germany, where this has provided excellent care, without the wait.
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Letting insurance companies and drug companies reap enormous profits while pricing proper health care right out of reach of most Americans is criminal. I, myself, am trying to figure out if my son and I can survive without some of the medicines we need to manage our allergies and other health issues. Add to that, my health insurance premiums have gone through the roof and less and less is covered each year.
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Americans need access to affordable health care. There needs to be a paradigm shift in thinking in this country between allopathic medicine and insurance companies to focus on health rather than disease. If prevention were the focus there would be a lot less chronic disease in this country. There has to be education for people about what constitutes healthy food, and it's not the junk big agra hawks to us and our children on TV. Education is the key. Insurance companies could begin to cover health education with regards to dietary influences through alternative practitioners. Conventional medicine has nothing to do with health and everything to do with disease.
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Health Insurance should be affordable to all people--- Especially the 45 million americans who have none!!!!
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I have health insurance for most problems . . .yet my medical costs were over $16,000 last year. That is almost half my retirement income. Something HAS to change.
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Why are Americans with health issues shackled with lifelong debilitating high costs when citizens of other countries are lucky enough to have universal health care? The American dream is out of reach for those unlucky enough to be born with a chronic illness unless they're also born wealthy. Is that the reality we really want in our country? I thought the great thing about our country was ANYONE can make something of themselves. Right now, that's not the case for people with illnesses like diabetes. Sorry, diabetics, you guys don't count. You just keep struggling to pay your health insurance and medicine costs, and let the richies continue to make decisions and run the show. I think that's a sorry state of affairs.
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I'm an old sick woman w/wonderful health care coverage, BUT others are not as lucky. All Americans should be eligable for good health coverage, that doesen't mean foreigners who want coverage, but haven't paid into the system. If they were excluded things might be better for Americans.
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Humanity will out
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