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Insurance companies want people to die. Aging boomers, the poor, the uninsured are in desperate need of affordable, quality care. If corporate welfare were to be reallocated, there would be money enough to fund health care on the single-payer system.
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As a current medical student, I have educated myself on the current health care situation in our nation. The inadequacy of the health care system, along with the failure of health insurance companies to approve claims, frustrates me. Our amazing country should be at the forefront of providing top of the line, affordable care to all citizens
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It is outrageous that the United States leads other developed nations in per capita healthcare expenditure, yet trails in mortality, morbidity, and life expectancy.
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Please sign my Care 2 Petition: Universal Health Care to All Americans
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Why is America falling behind all other countries in this issue, doesn't America care for its people-our health care system says NO.
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It,s called single payer, and it's long overdue.
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It is shameful yhay less afluent societies in the world provide their citizens with good quality health care FOR FREE AND FOR ALL! UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE NOW!
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The majority of people in this country now are lower income, or on fixed incomes. It is devistating to NEED medical care and NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT!!!!!! What is offer does not cover 1/3 of what is needed for good health care. The insurance industry RAISES there prices every year, some every month to where it is impossible to have any kind of health care. It is extremely important for all of us to have good health care or we will become a "third world country"!
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i have a chronic illness that gets progressively worse each year for the last 10 years and am permanently disabled. my husband is self-employed and has to purchase private insurance for him and i through his business because medicare (which I pay for monthly but have never used because it doesn't even begin to cover any of my expenses) is useless and our private insurance, which is an hmo, for just the 2 of us is up to $1,400 a month, add to that the doctor and prescription co-pays and costs of getting to appts., bridge, gas & parking, and our out of pocket expenses were over 20,000 this year, we just can't do it anymore and don't know what to do. something has to be done by the government, if they can take care of all the other countries, they should certainly be able to care for their own.
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BELAIR DICTIONARIES http://www.dr-belair.com/
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My wife is totally afraid to even consider retirement because she is afraid of what health care might cost us, life time caps, and loosing coverage altogether. It needs to be universal and single payer. Nothing else will begin to fix it.
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I live in Massachusetts, where Health Insurance is REQUIRED. One can be FINED if they do not pay their health insurance, which is so backwards to me. I am graduating from college this week and I owe a lot of money in loans, and I am not the only one in this position. Affordable health insurance is EXTREMELY important to me right now.
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Too often, pharma drugs are both unreasonably expensive and ineffective and/or damaging. Profit motives - amid a lack of truly independent oversight- demand rapid marketing and the down-playing of negatives - including low effectiveness and risks of permanent disability/damage and death - to an increasingly appalling extent. The responsibilities expected of large corporations are effectively reduced to those of providing larger profits for shareholders/stakeholders each quarter and promising this on a perpetual basis to perpetuate ever-rising stock prices, executive pay and bonuses. The purpose of the actual health-care-related businesses and imperatives regarding healing the sick and injured have become sometimes secondary and even peripheral among priorities in large/global profit-only health-care concerns. Sales - regardless of individual patient need - take precedence over science, and doctors become viewed - and trained - as dispensors of lucrative pills rather than humanitarian diagnosers of ills. Prior, reasonable expectations of profit among a number of health-care (and other) companies existed - now, continuous record annual takings are deemed neccessities as health care is progressively priced out of the market by a shrinking number of expanding companies. If government is not of, by and for the people and regression is made, due to their action/inaction, to a time of unrestricted greed among the powerful, the society itself is made sick. Little wonder then that the lame and the halt are left to founder by the roadside by those who find human value only in wallets, bank accounts and stock portfolios. Multinationals are artificial constructs and evidently cannot be expected to voluntarily place humanity, in either sense, over the maximized profit on which they are intent. It is democratic government - of, by and for humanity in both senses - which exists to protect human interests and to limit the power of giants which can be exerted over the individual of any society. If we - and, most especially, those selected to function as the arm of each democratic society - cannot look out for each other in times of trouble, can we survive at all?
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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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all ameicans deserve the same quality of care as the politians and the wealty receive. i am sick and tired of the greed in this country a country in which the wealty decide what the middle and the poor should or should not receice.
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