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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.

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;
* Eliminate 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!

# 30,104:

7:45 pm PST, Feb 7, Theresa Gabica, Idaho
I have 3 children: 2 have high-deductible insurance and my oldest, at 34, has NONE! She does NOT see a doctor regularly and may be one of those in the Emergency Room with a fatal illness if something is not done!

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5:32 pm PST, Feb 2, Amanda Layton, Arizona

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1:09 pm PST, Feb 2, Gretchen Gottwald, California

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8:54 pm PST, Jan 31, Cindy Andersen, Illinois

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3:34 pm PST, Jan 31, David Motz, Indiana
We need a public option to keep health care costs low. Health care should not be in the arena of for profit insurance companies, they have a fundamental conflict of interest.

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8:52 am PST, Jan 29, Afroditi Katsikis, California

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9:09 pm PST, Jan 22, Name not displayed, Ohio

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6:31 pm PST, Jan 22, Leah Sitkin, North Carolina

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7:47 pm PST, Jan 21, Ant Man, Ohio

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10:33 am PST, Jan 20, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
Living on a limited budget and feeling the pinch of ever escalating costs of necessities, such as medical insurance and care makes me wonder how we, as citizens struggle, while our country is constantly coming to the aid of others. I am compassionate about world suffering, but feel that we need more security and consideration here at home! I expected good changes when that mantra took place prior to the election...and here we are at a crossroads of costs, care and inconsideration! I truly believed that the we had a government for the people, but many people are being discarded, and many dollars wasted on needless considerations by the powers making the decisions. It is disheartening...thanks for an opportunity to share my opinion!

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1:14 pm PST, Jan 19, Martha Leahy, Massachusetts

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9:45 am PST, Jan 17, Declercq Laurence, France
lower coast health care is important because everybody rich or poor has the right to be cured .In france ,we have the opportunity to own a good health care system

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8:22 am PST, Jan 17, David Wickre, Minnesota

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8:09 am PST, Jan 17, ROY L BENNETT, West Virginia

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1:57 am PST, Jan 17, Name not displayed, Italy

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5:38 pm PST, Jan 16, Rose Carver, Iowa

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11:30 am PST, Jan 16, Ainhoa Mercader, California

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5:17 am PST, Jan 16, Dean Leh, California
Dean Leh http://deanleh.blogspot.com/

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3:08 pm PST, Jan 15, Jessie Humphrey, Arizona

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9:55 am PST, Jan 15, Sarah Raetzloff, Tennessee
Because that is the only way to help.

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6:59 am PST, Jan 15, Gene Funds, Michigan

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1:41 pm PST, Jan 14, Claire Andrews, Florida

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12:55 pm PST, Jan 14, Lisa Henry, Arizona

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4:39 pm PST, Jan 13, Nicole Lazarr, California
Higher quality, lower costing health care is important to me and all Americans because so many people, including my family and I and struggling with money greatly. With all of the problems we have to deal with, you add money and stress becomes your life. We need to stop this now, it's getting us no where. My mom was diagnossed with a serious, painful illness 30 months ago. She has gone through more than 10 surgeries and so many treatments; so many sleepless nights in the ER and hospital are enough and then with the bills and all. Its too much. Also, I have had many medical problems since a young age along with a lot of my family with cancer mostly. Health care is keeping my loved ones and I away from what we needin order to help us. And to think this could so easily be stopped...

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2:04 pm PST, Jan 13, Marie Rysak, Florida

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10:26 pm PST, Jan 12, Amanda Siebert, Massachusetts

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2:13 pm PST, Jan 12, Rebecca Johnson-brocchini, California

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2:07 pm PST, Jan 12, Kathleen Templeton, Arizona

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9:29 am PST, Jan 12, Mercedes Beltran, California

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8:21 am PST, Jan 12, Joe Baker, California

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8:20 am PST, Jan 12, Bill Unger, Rhode Island

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6:37 am PST, Jan 12, Edward Kuznicki, New Jersey

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1:54 am PST, Jan 12, Name not displayed, Illinois

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12:22 am PST, Jan 12, Bernadette Bultman, Netherlands

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2:55 pm PST, Jan 11, Norman S Jarvis, Canada
pharmicuticals, according to HSI reports, are poisoning us in many different ways and politicians and doctors are in their pockets and this HAS TO STOP NOW. With pretreatment with natural products there would be less sickness. Pretreat now...

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2:13 pm PST, Jan 11, Ella Coutts, Australia

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12:48 pm PST, Jan 11, Name not displayed, Georgia

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11:47 am PST, Jan 11, Margo Converse, South Dakota
I have family with jobs that do not provide health insurance, my insurance went up 19% this year while coverage went down, I make under $25,000.00 year and have my husband on the insurance since he has none.

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11:43 am PST, Jan 11, Crystal Arnold, Kansas

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11:33 am PST, Jan 11, Laura Haynes, California

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10:54 am PST, Jan 11, Joan Peterson, Utah

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10:22 am PST, Jan 11, David Shultz, Pennsylvania

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9:27 am PST, Jan 11, Sheena McFerran, California
This is very important to me because I have $60,000 in student loan debt alone, $100,000 when adding my husband's student loan debt too. I have a full time 9-6 $30,000/yr. job and I have a difficult enough time paying the bills and loan debt as it is without thinking about the high cost of healthcare. Sometimes it seems healthcare is only for the rich and those who are not sick and don't need the care.

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8:26 am PST, Jan 11, Evaristo Zapata Jr., Texas
It's important for me because it helps improve quality of life for people who get the work done in America.

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8:24 am PST, Jan 11, Daniel O'Sullivan, Hawaii
I am a small business employer and I pay 100% of my employees health insurance. The price keeps rising and the benifits keep falling I want my employees and family to be healthy and live long lifes.

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2:01 am PST, Jan 11, Greg King, Washington

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11:58 pm PST, Jan 10, Name not displayed, Greece

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9:22 pm PST, Jan 10, Kenneth Ewing, Ohio
Atul Gawande's articles and books are all we need to know about how to improve health care in this country. The incentive for personal profit must be removed and replaced with incentives for quality care and prevention.

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8:48 pm PST, Jan 10, Vicki Graham, Texas
Because this is common sense!

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8:29 pm PST, Jan 10, Mary Jones, California
Insurance companies only want to insure healthy individuals. If you have a pre-existing condition even if its high blood pressure they deny you coverage. Heaven help you if you have a more detrimental condition. The drug companies rob you of most of your money. One of the medicines for 30 pills cost $60.00. How are people to live? It is a high price to pay;Do I pay the morgage, eat or buy my medicine??? Most people let their medication go to pay for a roof over their heads and food in their stomaches.

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5:57 pm PST, Jan 10, John Kalland, New York
Let me shop for health care across state lines!!!! This is THE answer to lower costs!!! the 3 stooges, Obama/Pelosi/Reid.....only want to WIN this bill so that they can CONTROL all of us. Don't let this happen!!! Costs WILL INCREASE if they win.

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4:54 pm PST, Jan 10, Angela M Diolosa, New York
Because I work hard for the health insurance that I have and I don't want the same insurance as everyone else, including those who don't work for it. Lower cost health care is also important to me because I would have to pay less into it and be able to afford other things.

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3:30 pm PST, Jan 10, Anthony Baker, Canada
everyone should have access to the best healthcare possible. Like us Canadians do.

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