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# 28,967:
2:43 am PST, Nov 8,
Kimberly Crane, Arizona
Because GREED has become more important than life and it has to stop. We need to evolve past self-destruction for cash!
Because GREED has become more important than life and it has to stop. We need to evolve past self-destruction for cash!
# 28,966:
7:29 pm PST, Nov 7,
Tania Mineva, Florida
Because all we suppose to have the right of health care.Now, if you lose your job, resp. your insurance, you better die if you got seriously sick.If you don't die, your family will pay incredible bills, and you won't get the care you need because you don't have an insurance. So, affordable insurance and higher quality for all Americans!!!!!
Because all we suppose to have the right of health care.Now, if you lose your job, resp. your insurance, you better die if you got seriously sick.If you don't die, your family will pay incredible bills, and you won't get the care you need because you don't have an insurance. So, affordable insurance and higher quality for all Americans!!!!!
# 28,965:
7:00 pm PST, Nov 7,
Rachel Lange, Texas
# 28,964:
6:23 pm PST, Nov 7,
Patrick Prein, Texas
Why has doctoring become such a business.Why are the medical costs so extremely high.We wouldn,t need insurance if the prices were more equitable.And good health and prevention could eliminate much exagerrated and useless medicating.We are all in this together .Not only the doctors or Insurers are the bad guy.Better wages would be a good starting point!
Why has doctoring become such a business.Why are the medical costs so extremely high.We wouldn,t need insurance if the prices were more equitable.And good health and prevention could eliminate much exagerrated and useless medicating.We are all in this together .Not only the doctors or Insurers are the bad guy.Better wages would be a good starting point!
# 28,963:
5:51 pm PST, Nov 7,
Lacey Grove, Washington
# 28,962:
4:51 pm PST, Nov 7,
Rachel D belfiore, Pennsylvania
If Canada can do this, why can't we. This is the greatest country in the world1
If Canada can do this, why can't we. This is the greatest country in the world1
# 28,961:
11:17 am PST, Nov 7,
Annie Walton, Washington
# 28,960:
6:09 am PST, Nov 7,
Robert Gray, Maryland
The quality and cost of my health care are fine. I have medicare and insurance through my former employer. I understand that millions of Americans do not have adequate health insurance and we are all paying for their health problems. We have ranked 37th in the world for providing afordable health care for all our citizens, just below Costa Rica, which is ranked 36th. Let's stop all the whining and bickering and get a bill passed that will at least more us ahead of a few of the third world countries.
The quality and cost of my health care are fine. I have medicare and insurance through my former employer. I understand that millions of Americans do not have adequate health insurance and we are all paying for their health problems. We have ranked 37th in the world for providing afordable health care for all our citizens, just below Costa Rica, which is ranked 36th. Let's stop all the whining and bickering and get a bill passed that will at least more us ahead of a few of the third world countries.
# 28,959:
1:06 am PST, Nov 7,
Umesh Upadhyaya, Nepal
Because I represent working class with overwhelming majority of working families below poverty line
Because I represent working class with overwhelming majority of working families below poverty line
# 28,958:
7:41 pm PST, Nov 6,
Alissa Andersen, Virginia
My fiance, as the doctor said, "shatterd" his arm. Because he didn't have health insurance (even though he was a working citizen) he didn't get the proper care he needed. Isn't it a human right to live a healthy life?
My fiance, as the doctor said, "shatterd" his arm. Because he didn't have health insurance (even though he was a working citizen) he didn't get the proper care he needed. Isn't it a human right to live a healthy life?
# 28,957:
7:10 pm PST, Nov 6,
Joshua Holden, Indiana
# 28,956:
12:34 pm PST, Nov 6,
Karen McMullen, New York
# 28,955:
8:22 am PST, Nov 6,
Beverlee Couillard, Nevada
Everyone wants better care, lower cost. This is not a mystery. We want what Congress has, and pay for.
Everyone wants better care, lower cost. This is not a mystery. We want what Congress has, and pay for.
# 28,954:
10:34 pm PST, Nov 5,
Name not displayed, California
# 28,953:
9:11 pm PST, Nov 5,
Svetlana Roytberh, Germany
# 28,952:
7:55 pm PST, Nov 5,
Yana Sadzhaya, California
america is one of the only countries that doesnt have universal health care
america is one of the only countries that doesnt have universal health care
# 28,951:
5:22 pm PST, Nov 5,
Milan Novak, Croatia
# 28,950:
2:51 pm PST, Nov 5,
Lorree Gardener Milne, Washington
First of all, it is very possible to get lower cost and better care if we simply remove "the middleman", which are health insurance companies that are motivated by huge profits. All citizens need health care sooner or later, but none of us should be subjected to pay hundreds of dollars every month and still not be able to afford to see a doctor (because of deductibles, fears of establishing a pre-existing condition, etc.) We need REAL CHANGE NOW! Improve health care by eliminating the insurance loophole.
First of all, it is very possible to get lower cost and better care if we simply remove "the middleman", which are health insurance companies that are motivated by huge profits. All citizens need health care sooner or later, but none of us should be subjected to pay hundreds of dollars every month and still not be able to afford to see a doctor (because of deductibles, fears of establishing a pre-existing condition, etc.) We need REAL CHANGE NOW! Improve health care by eliminating the insurance loophole.
# 28,949:
2:40 pm PST, Nov 5,
Nicole Gooden, Nevada
# 28,947:
5:47 am PST, Nov 5,
Samantha James II, Illinois
Come on! You get excelent heath care paid by us, our taxes. We want the same! So get off your laurals and get it done, NOW!
Come on! You get excelent heath care paid by us, our taxes. We want the same! So get off your laurals and get it done, NOW!
# 28,946:
12:17 am PST, Nov 5,
Jeff Lawson, California
# 28,945:
10:06 pm PST, Nov 4,
Allie Warnick, Arkansas
# 28,944:
9:02 pm PST, Nov 4,
Linda Swensen, Washington
Who wouldn't want higher quality and lower cost health care? But how do we do this? The focus is always on the high cost of health insurance, but no body addresses the high cost of health care! Health insurers must maintain a pool of funds to cover the high cost of medical claims. I did not fully understand that until I got cancer. I went through all the testing, surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy. My oncologist charged $22,000 (yes, 22 thousand dollars) for one IV bag of Herceptin every three weeks for a year! My insurer calculated the allowance at 77% of the billed charge, and then paid 80%, leaving me with a coinsurance of $3,400 for one claim alone! This $22,000 did not include the other two IV bags of chemo drugs I was infused with over six months time. The Neulasta shot I received the next day cost $3,400 per injection every three weeks. My medical bills have totaled more than $800,000 since starting my cancer treatment. I am finding it very difficult to pay all my copays, coinsurances, and deductibles. Providers have threatened collections, but the money only goes so far. I feel like I am living beyond my means for getting this expensive health care. Because I am considered middle class, I don't qualify for financial assistance. Soon I will be amongst the poor when I have to file for bankruptcy. The middle class is going away, folks. If my cancer comes back, I will either forgo getting medical care altogether, or apply for government aide, that is, if there is any funding available.
Who wouldn't want higher quality and lower cost health care? But how do we do this? The focus is always on the high cost of health insurance, but no body addresses the high cost of health care! Health insurers must maintain a pool of funds to cover the high cost of medical claims. I did not fully understand that until I got cancer. I went through all the testing, surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy. My oncologist charged $22,000 (yes, 22 thousand dollars) for one IV bag of Herceptin every three weeks for a year! My insurer calculated the allowance at 77% of the billed charge, and then paid 80%, leaving me with a coinsurance of $3,400 for one claim alone! This $22,000 did not include the other two IV bags of chemo drugs I was infused with over six months time. The Neulasta shot I received the next day cost $3,400 per injection every three weeks. My medical bills have totaled more than $800,000 since starting my cancer treatment. I am finding it very difficult to pay all my copays, coinsurances, and deductibles. Providers have threatened collections, but the money only goes so far. I feel like I am living beyond my means for getting this expensive health care. Because I am considered middle class, I don't qualify for financial assistance. Soon I will be amongst the poor when I have to file for bankruptcy. The middle class is going away, folks. If my cancer comes back, I will either forgo getting medical care altogether, or apply for government aide, that is, if there is any funding available.
# 28,943:
4:43 pm PST, Nov 4,
Judi Hild, Florida
Because just ONE catastrophic illness and my family and I will be living under a bridge...
Because just ONE catastrophic illness and my family and I will be living under a bridge...
# 28,942:
1:29 pm PST, Nov 4,
Alma Deshazer, California
We are American and there are too many pelope without any insuance and that is not right
We are American and there are too many pelope without any insuance and that is not right
# 28,941:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 4,
Christina Baker, Louisiana
# 28,940:
12:22 pm PST, Nov 4,
Gina Gonzalez-Farley, California
First and foremost it should be the doctors who went through medical school and training who decide how to treat the patient not the insurance companies who have some pencil pusher who went to school but has never treated a patient in their life decide the treatments.
First and foremost it should be the doctors who went through medical school and training who decide how to treat the patient not the insurance companies who have some pencil pusher who went to school but has never treated a patient in their life decide the treatments.
# 28,939:
10:47 am PST, Nov 4,
Meghan Namaste, Michigan
# 28,938:
7:44 am PST, Nov 4,
Barbara Blount-Powell, Florida
# 28,937:
6:54 am PST, Nov 4,
Matt Schumacher, Wisconsin
# 28,936:
4:31 am PST, Nov 4,
Tommi Partanen, Finland
# 28,935:
9:39 pm PST, Nov 3,
Shelby McMullan, New Jersey
# 28,934:
7:50 pm PST, Nov 3,
Marat Sibaev, New Zealand
# 28,933:
7:33 pm PST, Nov 3,
Name not displayed, Indiana
It means better health care for me and my family: lower the cost of dr. bills and medications: Medicine is cheaper in Canada and Mexico: I thought we weren't a third world country : am I wrong??? Maybe we are> Bet the politiltiains have great health care .
It means better health care for me and my family: lower the cost of dr. bills and medications: Medicine is cheaper in Canada and Mexico: I thought we weren't a third world country : am I wrong??? Maybe we are> Bet the politiltiains have great health care .
# 28,932:
5:23 pm PST, Nov 3,
Miguel Dias, New York
# 28,931:
4:42 pm PST, Nov 3,
Anthony Audino, South Carolina
How about actually paying for HEALTH care instead of disease care which is what we have. Fitness programs, organic foods and preventative care professions such as Chiropractic should be what insurances cover.
How about actually paying for HEALTH care instead of disease care which is what we have. Fitness programs, organic foods and preventative care professions such as Chiropractic should be what insurances cover.
# 28,930:
3:30 pm PST, Nov 3,
Maria Santiago-Acevedo (Ph, Puerto Rico
It is mandatory to have a lower cost health care for our nation. We all need it.
It is mandatory to have a lower cost health care for our nation. We all need it.
# 28,929:
3:28 pm PST, Nov 3,
Ramona Shashaani, California
# 28,928:
2:52 pm PST, Nov 3,
Christina Forras, New York
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2:26 pm PST, Nov 3,
WIlliam Terrall, Oregon
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# 28,926:
2:20 pm PST, Nov 3,
C NN, California
It is important to have higher quality, lower cost health care important to me because to me life is already full of many diff. kind of stresses. Myself and many uninsured Americans don't need this one more additional stress in our lives.
It is important to have higher quality, lower cost health care important to me because to me life is already full of many diff. kind of stresses. Myself and many uninsured Americans don't need this one more additional stress in our lives.
# 28,925:
8:39 am PST, Nov 3,
Mary V. Thompson, Virginia
# 28,924:
7:39 am PST, Nov 3,
Edward L., New York
It is in the best interest of the country and its people. Start with tort reform and then competion across state lines. Why dont i hear about tort reform inall the bs? Thank you; Ed. l.
It is in the best interest of the country and its people. Start with tort reform and then competion across state lines. Why dont i hear about tort reform inall the bs? Thank you; Ed. l.
# 28,923:
5:03 am PST, Nov 3,
Nicole Green, New York
# 28,922:
1:11 am PST, Nov 3,
Jarqundrala L. Spencer, Alabama
# 28,921:
11:45 pm PST, Nov 2,
J Donald Thomas, California
# 28,920:
9:39 pm PST, Nov 2,
Dina Hamby, Nevada
# 28,919:
8:44 pm PST, Nov 2,
Dean Frerichs, California
To make health care available to the most people at the least cost possible
To make health care available to the most people at the least cost possible
# 28,918:
7:38 pm PST, Nov 2,
Julie Kingsbury, Kansas
# 28,917:
7:16 pm PST, Nov 2,
Kevin Boone, Indiana
Help everyone get health care and the h--- with the Insurance companies and the Pharmaceutical companies who have profited at our expense.
Help everyone get health care and the h--- with the Insurance companies and the Pharmaceutical companies who have profited at our expense.
# 28,916:
6:32 pm PST, Nov 2,
Michelle Fournier, Canada
Ever sine statin drugs came out, more people die of side effects than their conditions. For prevention to occur, natural health products should be in tax benefits because they actually work and people do not die because of them. Also, prices need to be reduced because many people have minimum wage and can hardly make ends meet.
Ever sine statin drugs came out, more people die of side effects than their conditions. For prevention to occur, natural health products should be in tax benefits because they actually work and people do not die because of them. Also, prices need to be reduced because many people have minimum wage and can hardly make ends meet.
# 28,915:
6:19 pm PST, Nov 2,
Dilis Lee, Virginia
It is obvious that every one need quality and affortable health care. The key solution is the health care providers and the patients are not abusing the system, and have better moral standard.
It is obvious that every one need quality and affortable health care. The key solution is the health care providers and the patients are not abusing the system, and have better moral standard.
# 28,914:
5:57 pm PST, Nov 2,
Laura Sampson, Georgia
My husband and I are both self-employed. We pay a lot of money each month for insurance with a $10,000 deductible--for each of us. Our coverage doesn't include any co-pays, preventive care (such as mammogram, pap, or prostate exam), or prescription drug plan. We are essentially paying for peace of mind in case one of us gets seriously ill or has a major accident or injury.
My husband and I are both self-employed. We pay a lot of money each month for insurance with a $10,000 deductible--for each of us. Our coverage doesn't include any co-pays, preventive care (such as mammogram, pap, or prostate exam), or prescription drug plan. We are essentially paying for peace of mind in case one of us gets seriously ill or has a major accident or injury.
# 28,913:
5:25 pm PST, Nov 2,
Name not displayed, California
It is terrible the amount of paperwork required between insurance companies, doctors, and patients (prior approval). I couldn't believe a medical bill this year. The procedure took about 10 minutes with a follow-up x-ray: $7,400+.
It is terrible the amount of paperwork required between insurance companies, doctors, and patients (prior approval). I couldn't believe a medical bill this year. The procedure took about 10 minutes with a follow-up x-ray: $7,400+.
# 28,912:
1:46 pm PST, Nov 2,
Name not displayed, California
# 28,911:
1:11 pm PST, Nov 2,
Mary Duello, Missouri
# 28,910:
1:00 pm PST, Nov 2,
Name not displayed, Illinois
The charge for a simple blood test or a shot is much to high. We need more control over this.
The charge for a simple blood test or a shot is much to high. We need more control over this.
# 28,909:
12:44 pm PST, Nov 2,
Colleen Amato, Connecticut
# 28,908:
9:26 am PST, Nov 2,
Angela Froehlich, Arizona
# 28,906:
8:52 am PST, Nov 2,
Whylie Williams, Georgia
I AM RETIRED AND MY INCOME IS FIXED. THE DOLLAR IS WORTH LESS BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY MORE.
I AM RETIRED AND MY INCOME IS FIXED. THE DOLLAR IS WORTH LESS BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY MORE.
# 28,905:
8:01 am PST, Nov 2,
Name not displayed, California
# 28,904:
3:15 am PST, Nov 2,
Charles Ciullo, New Jersey
All Americans should be able to afford healthcare.
All Americans should be able to afford healthcare.
# 28,903:
3:14 am PST, Nov 2,
Name not displayed, California
# 28,902:
10:26 pm PST, Nov 1,
Annie Poulson, Washington
# 28,901:
8:29 pm PST, Nov 1,
Diana Santos, Texas