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We signed the pledge for higher quality, lower cost health care!
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Let the medical people make the diagnosis - not the insurance company! They care more for money than lives.
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We SHOULD have national health insurance!
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We need a single-payer national health service to take the profit motive and the costly paperwork out of health costs for diagnosis and treatment and add resources for prevention of acute and chronic illness.
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My mom doesn't have health insurance and it has hurt her a lot. She has Rheumatoid Arthritis and I worry what's going to happen to her later, since she can't afford some of her medication and the government doesn't care!
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I don't have health insurance.
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It is the responsibility of a government 2 provied free health care 4 its citizens. it is a right as a human being, not a priviledge as a rich friend of the president.
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We have 2 small children and no health insurance nor are we recieving medicaid. We pay out of pocket for their well checkups, but should they get sick, I don't know what we would do.
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My son does not have any health insurance. He cannot afford it as he does not make enough money to pay for health insurance. His wife is sick and on disability. If he gets sick he will not be able to pay for healthcare. They "the establishment" could take away his home. America - the richest country in the world and half of the American People do not have health care. while Exxon and Mobile Oil are making billions of dollars every month. Something is wrong with this picture.
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I spend $233 a month for healthcare for my son and me. Every time I turn around, I'm being sent a bill for something that insurance did not cover. I am barely making it but we are considered middle class so we don't qualify for any medical assistance. This is important to me because I can't keep affording insurance the way our system is now.
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4:27 pm PDT, May 13,
David Lynch, Kentucky
As an amputee the cost of health care and related issues is way out of control and virtualy non exsistent for myself. |
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I may have to change jobs because my husband and I are self employed and strugggle to pay our health insurance.
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I suffer from debilitating chronic health issues associated with my Fibromyalgia and CFIDS. I have many systemic problems that were never diagnosed until two years after I was forced to stop working my full time job. I had worked full-time for 23 years. If our healthcare system wasn't so corrupt, I would have been diagnosed correctly many years ago, and shouldn't have had to become so debilitated. If our healthcare system also included preventive/integrative medicine instead of just allopathic medicine that just makes the drug and insurance companies rich, I wouldn't be so in debt now trying to pay for my healthcare out-of-pocket just to try to treat my health issues. I go to a health facility that practices holistic medicine with some allopathic medicine, which is far better than the "standard conventional" practices utilized by most physicians. My doctor orders cutting-edge bloodwork and other tests that test down to the cellular level. Our country needs to focus on getting and keeping it's citizens healthy so we can all lead productive and "pain-free" lives. Also, since my husband is self-employed, he no longer has health insurance since I had to quit my job. It is outrageous that us American citizens who have lived here all our lives, paid into the system all our adult lives (as our parents and grandparents did too) have to go without health insurance and go into debt just because we are sick. Other countries' healthcare systems put ours to shame. It is high time this changes.
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Health care should be a not-for-profit enterprise.
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We work as a global spotlight to continually shine down on world wide attrocities in order to make them cease!
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I am a single parent, a teacher in an inner city school. Most of my students and parents do not have health insurance. Many students are living with relatives with no health insurance. What will happen to the children when their grandparents become ill and can't afford care? Who will take care of these already abandoned children if their caregivers can no longer care for them? Something needs to be done soon so that the cycle of poverty will at least not include health care issues. Children are a gift and those who end up caring for them need the gift of affordable health care.
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No one should have to go head-over-heels into debt or lose one's possessions in order to pay for necessary health care. I consider that a right, not a privilege. I consider it obscene that in a country as wealthy (well it used to be) as the USA a person can bleed to death on hospital steps because they have neither money nor insurance.
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I have experienced the constant, unnecessary stress of not being able to afford the healthcare I need, as well as insurance companies denying coverage that was originally promised. They know that people who are sick don't have the time, energy, or resources to fight them; they count on it. It's criminal the way our medical system is run, and our government needs to do something to make health care affordable and accessible for every citizen, not just the wealthy and well-connected.
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It is criminal that our country is the ONLY industrialized country in the world that does not provide universal health care to its citizens. I have been to Canada, and used their health care system when I became ill. It was efficient, I received attention immediately, and was very happy with my care. It is a false belief that most international health care systems are socialistic. There are very good, very efficient health care systems that are most definitely compatible with our country's philosophies and values. We need universal health care: we must have our Congress and our leaders make universal health care as top priority.
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Lower quality, lower cost health care is important to me because I am one of the millions and millions of people who lack health insurance and know that I currently could not afford the cost of a medical bill myself. More people are without coverage everyday in the US, while many other countries ensure all their citizens receive health care because they believe it is a basic right, and it should be.
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2:01 pm PDT, May 13,
Jessica MacIntyre, Pennsylvania
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