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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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We signed the pledge for higher quality, lower cost health care!

# 4,100:

12:23 pm PDT, May 14, Eleanor Cohen, California

# 4,099:

12:13 pm PDT, May 14, Laura Mayabb, Oklahoma

# 4,098:

12:07 pm PDT, May 14, Cal Jennings, Texas
The AMA has been a top lobbyist for far too long. Their greed has blinded them to the Hippocratic Oath and their purpose to serve humanity. People are not disposable equipment to be used in factories, refineries, and chemical plants like some old piece of mechanical equipment.

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11:55 am PDT, May 14, Norman Hood, Texas

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11:51 am PDT, May 14, Susan Nelson-Menton, California

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11:49 am PDT, May 14, Sondra Gibson, Montana

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11:48 am PDT, May 14, Reyna Mendoza, California

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11:48 am PDT, May 14, Laura LHuillier, Idaho

# 4,092:

11:47 am PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, Washington
Something must be done to ensure affordable and available health care for all. This is one of the biggest crisis our country is facing. We are far behind other countries and health care should be a right, not something only for the wealthy.

# 4,091:

11:41 am PDT, May 14, Alana Davis, Pennsylvania

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11:29 am PDT, May 14, Zana Teresa, California

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11:25 am PDT, May 14, Seth Laursen, California

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11:25 am PDT, May 14, Jessica Boucher, California

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11:16 am PDT, May 14, Zelda DiCaprio, Texas

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11:11 am PDT, May 14, Lisa Horner, Georgia

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11:01 am PDT, May 14, Michelle Ruben, Indiana

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10:56 am PDT, May 14, Howard Ruderman, North Carolina

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10:52 am PDT, May 14, Roseanne Ferrara, New Jersey

# 4,082:

10:33 am PDT, May 14, Charles Simcoe, Missouri

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10:31 am PDT, May 14, Kathi Downes, New Jersey
It's health CARE that's important - not health INSURANCE!! A very close friend of mine has health insurance that won't pay for a very necessary proceedure because it's "too expensive!" So I guess it's OK to let her suffer? This is AMERICA and it's the 21st century!! We can and SHOULD do better for our citizens!

# 4,080:

10:25 am PDT, May 14, Iris Banks, New York
We are a sick nation in general compared to other health conscious countries. HMOs are destroying the quality of care we as Americans are receiving. Drug companies are using us as guinea pigs. Most importantly, sick people get into debt and have to resort to filing bankruptcy just to pay the ever rising cost of medical bills. With rises in our population, increasing technologies that damage our health (cellphones) and working indoors where germs can spread and breed, it is easy to fall prey to disease and debt which is a direct result of disease. All of these scenarios combined can make you even sicker. A sick person needs a break from financial worry and competent medical doctors to oversee their care, in order to get well. Europe is a fine example of such a program. I personally am for government healthcare for all Americans. Don't worry doctors and nurses you will still be able to make a good living. I herewith cast my vote for higher quality health care at a lower cost for all Americans. If we all vote for Barak Obama this can be achieved. Thank you.

# 4,079:

10:25 am PDT, May 14, George White, Michigan
Corporate greed has gone far enough in eroding the economic structure of this country.

# 4,078:

10:23 am PDT, May 14, CLAYTON YOUNG, Texas

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10:10 am PDT, May 14, Helen Escobar, Illinois

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9:59 am PDT, May 14, Ellaina Knight, Massachusetts

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9:59 am PDT, May 14, David Siddiqui, California

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9:54 am PDT, May 14, Ashley Galindo, Texas

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9:27 am PDT, May 14, Bridget Marionneaux, Mississippi

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9:05 am PDT, May 14, Josh Vaughan, South Carolina

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8:55 am PDT, May 14, Melinda Dowling, Florida

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8:55 am PDT, May 14, Liz Green, Oklahoma
Being one of the many Americans that has a chronic health condition, it's frustrating to continually have to spend more and more to treat the same issue. We work hard, we pay our taxes, but our happiness is limited by our health and if people can't afford adequate health care they shouldn't have to suffer.

# 4,069:

8:45 am PDT, May 14, Peggy Copeland, New Hampshire

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8:39 am PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, New York
Because I am currently unemployed and paying $600.00 a month for private health insurance!

# 4,067:

8:34 am PDT, May 14, Jennifer Jones, New York

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8:33 am PDT, May 14, Alex Beal, Florida

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8:27 am PDT, May 14, Sheri Villaverde, Texas

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8:05 am PDT, May 14, Leah Stavish, South Carolina

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8:03 am PDT, May 14, Maria Kogan, Massachusetts
it's unbelievable that people die every day from illnesses soley based on the fact that they cannot afford treatment. this is murder.

# 4,062:

8:01 am PDT, May 14, Victoria Knight, Florida

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7:53 am PDT, May 14, Rebecca Harada, Idaho

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7:50 am PDT, May 14, Anja Gundermann, Germany

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7:42 am PDT, May 14, Martin Horwitz, California
The only way to provide quality health care for all Americans is through the ELIMNATION of private insurance companies in a SINGLE-PAYER system-as exists in EVERY OTHER industrialized nation. Our system is a national disgrace and it has got to change.

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7:41 am PDT, May 14, Todd Mathews, Washington

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7:39 am PDT, May 14, Bill Otto, Missouri
Costs too much Covers too little Excludes too many Is getting worse Ia there more to say???

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7:34 am PDT, May 14, Amy Devine, Florida

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7:33 am PDT, May 14, Ryan Sigo, Indiana

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7:23 am PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, Maine
We're 37th. That's ridiculous and unconscionable.

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7:11 am PDT, May 14, Bryan Weekes, Florida

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7:04 am PDT, May 14, Vanessa Lee, Texas

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6:56 am PDT, May 14, Jason M Leon, Massachusetts

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