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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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# 4,150:

9:46 pm PDT, May 14, Richard Bell, New Zealand
Healthcare should be CHEAP or FREE! Doctors need time to examine patients carefully. Patients need to have affordable and customised healthcare and billing. However, as Insurance policies are limited to types of medicare, people end up paying for something not covered or missing out completely. Basically customers are paying out for something they will never use. What's the point? Insurance companies should never have the final say on how much a patient is billed and what is covered. Only the DOCTORS should, because it's there JOB!!! Healthcare Insurance policies should be open and not closed, not rated on types of medicare but evaluated on what is needed, and billed accordingly.

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9:40 pm PDT, May 14, Eric Cruze, New Hampshire

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9:34 pm PDT, May 14, Philip Bordenave, California

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9:19 pm PDT, May 14, Katie Candland, California

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8:54 pm PDT, May 14, Kayla Meadows, California

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8:53 pm PDT, May 14, Lisa Olson, Oregon

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8:18 pm PDT, May 14, Nydia Aponte, Puerto Rico

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8:17 pm PDT, May 14, Lorraine Mason, Pennsylvania

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8:02 pm PDT, May 14, Cynthia Castaldo, New York

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7:29 pm PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, Missouri
i think it is a real crime that other countries have better health care than we do it is really sad since our country is suppose to be so rich. if we would quit helping everyone else we can afford health care for our people.

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7:29 pm PDT, May 14, Danna Garcia, Texas

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7:17 pm PDT, May 14, Joann Fossani, New Jersey
I am a single mother with 3 children, 1 who is on her own, and am struggling with finances like many single parents. My insurance is not very good compared to the last job I had. It doesn't really do a very good job of covering my prescriptions and seems to take a VERY long time to pay my doctors.

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7:16 pm PDT, May 14, Rose Reid, Washington

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7:11 pm PDT, May 14, Deborah Hooper, Ohio
Not just the insurance companies, but the pharmaceutical companies also. You have to wonder of Doctors today know anything accept what the pharmaceutical companies have told them.

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7:01 pm PDT, May 14, Angela Loesch, California

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6:50 pm PDT, May 14, Brent Williams, Kentucky

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6:45 pm PDT, May 14, Julie Hawkins, Utah

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6:42 pm PDT, May 14, Danielle Aris, New York

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6:14 pm PDT, May 14, Doris Kristeff, Florida

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5:59 pm PDT, May 14, Scott Ruckoldt, Illinois

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5:59 pm PDT, May 14, P D Barbuto, Ohio

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5:58 pm PDT, May 14, Cindy Maruca, New Jersey

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5:28 pm PDT, May 14, Dan Touse, New York

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5:12 pm PDT, May 14, Maria Arbucias, North Carolina

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4:34 pm PDT, May 14, Mary Jones, Florida
For one I have worked with The State Of Florida for over 21 Years, my husband has gien (25) years. When we retire in order to keep are insurance will have to pay over 1,200.00 dollars a month, that's a good part of are retirment. We deserve to have afforable insurance as well as quality insurance, without going bankrupt.

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4:12 pm PDT, May 14, Beverly Phillips, California
I have no medical insurance and haven't had any for 3 + years. I buy some meds from Canada as I can't afford them here at our prices. I try natural remedies for everything before even considering going to a doctor. I'm a citizen born here and yet make too much to qualify for county insurance and too little to be able to afford it on my own. That's just not right.

# 4,124:

3:57 pm PDT, May 14, Frank Shannon, Illinois

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3:54 pm PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, California
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON! Universal Insurance!

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3:44 pm PDT, May 14, Mike Richard, California
PLEASE LOWER THE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL WOMEN WORLD WIDE THANK YOU.

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3:30 pm PDT, May 14, Amy Padilla, California

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3:23 pm PDT, May 14, William Bascombe, Kansas

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3:19 pm PDT, May 14, Mikko Asaki, California

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3:13 pm PDT, May 14, Joan Redd, Ohio

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3:09 pm PDT, May 14, Becky Kobler, North Carolina

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2:58 pm PDT, May 14, Thomas Tizard, Hawaii

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2:38 pm PDT, May 14, Sandy Triolo, Maryland
Healthcare costs in America are killing our economy and killing our citizens, something must be done and soon!

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2:35 pm PDT, May 14, Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom

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2:31 pm PDT, May 14, Roberta Jones, Wisconsin

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2:00 pm PDT, May 14, Dylan Reynolds, California
Better Heath care, Better Rights. Fight The Power

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2:00 pm PDT, May 14, Jennie Hagler, California

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1:58 pm PDT, May 14, Heather Michasiow, New York

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1:37 pm PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, Florida
The insurance and drug companies must be regulated so that they don't give kick=backs to doctors, hospitals and clinics. Doctors must Stop prescribing unecessary medications and research medications that are related to patient's illnes.

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1:25 pm PDT, May 14, P A Martin, Oregon
The US the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee health care to ALL of it's citizens. The system we have now is insane, it needs to be changed.

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1:11 pm PDT, May 14, L Dear, Massachusetts

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12:41 pm PDT, May 14, Radine! Aijala, California
ANY Healthcare would be an improvement over our current condition, but it needs, of course, to be focused on HEALTH, not on disease.

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12:39 pm PDT, May 14, Jennifer Jelinek, Wisconsin

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12:37 pm PDT, May 14, Kathy Clements, Texas

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12:34 pm PDT, May 14, Leia Bess, Missouri

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12:32 pm PDT, May 14, Parnel Ide, Connecticut

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12:26 pm PDT, May 14, Marla De Vries, Netherlands

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