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Reform American Health Care

Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: IOUSA: The Movie

Did you know that Americans spend more on health care than any other country? Costs have been rising significantly faster than economic or personal income growth for the past 40 years, and the trend is continuing at an unsustainable rate. In fact, it is the worst long-term crisis facing the nation, and it demands a solution.

If we don't address these rising costs now, our entire safety net could disappear, including Medicare and Social Security. Even worse, cost burdens and our $9.5 trillion national debt make it almost impossible to invest in new programs that make us healthier and more secure.

Annually, the U.S. health care industry spends an amount equal to the entire gross domestic product of France and Spain combined, so reform is going to be complicated and challenging. But it needs to happen sooner rather than later, and the first step is asking hard questions about health care in America.

Waiting to reform the health care system will just push the problem onto our children and grandchildren, and that is irresponsible and immoral. Ask Congress to seriously face health care reform today.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 25,000

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The federal deficit is the single greatest, long-term crisis facing this country. A big part of this is health care costs. Health care costs have been rising significantly faster than economic and personal income growth for the past 40 years, and the trend is continuing at an unsustainable rate. Projections indicate that in just a few decades, every penny of the annual increase in gross domestic product will have to go for health care. There would be less and less money for other things, like education, environmental protection, research and development, national security, and other services that Americans depend on.

Of course everyone wants to increase access, reduce costs and preserve choice in health care, but the problem is that no one knows how to do all that. That's why it's so absolutely critical that our nation's leaders start asking the hard questions about health care reform.

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4:22 pm PST, Dec 2, Selina Schecroun, Virginia

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2:44 pm PST, Dec 2, Name not displayed, Maryland

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2:36 pm PST, Dec 2, Name not displayed, Minnesota

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12:14 pm PST, Dec 2, Name not displayed, Florida
Health insurance costs are in the "stupid" range. Hospitals charge uninsured patients more than they charge insurance companies, for the same care.

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12:04 pm PST, Dec 2, Andrea Morris, Maryland

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9:54 am PST, Dec 2, David Raymond, Louisiana

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5:28 am PST, Dec 2, Chris Green, Florida

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3:12 am PST, Dec 2, Dennis DeMarinis, Massachusetts

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5:44 pm PST, Dec 1, Terry Thirion, North Carolina
I've lived in Belgium for the first 20 years of my life and it's the best system and a dignified system. The US Health Care System is a disgrace and will bankcrupt everyone of us at one point or another, if we have to be hospitalized or have a serious illness. This needs to get fixed.

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4:19 pm PST, Dec 1, Goki Sama, California

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2:35 pm PST, Dec 1, Eric Talbert, New York

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11:08 am PST, Dec 1, Rachel Oliver, Illinois

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11:05 am PST, Dec 1, Matthew Reese, Alabama

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11:00 am PST, Dec 1, Dana Slawson, California

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10:49 am PST, Dec 1, Peter Butterworth, California
A democracy which does not create an affordable health coverage is a democracy which isn't working well. lets get big business out of of running our lives and controlling our health needs and return to a workable democracy in which our citizens control our health needs.

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9:53 am PST, Dec 1, Robert Nichols III, California

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9:20 am PST, Dec 1, Annie Culver, Minnesota
Please consider that disease prevention and education should be a part of reform.

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9:04 am PST, Dec 1, Kathleen Wolf, Illinois

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8:46 am PST, Dec 1, Name not displayed, Oklahoma

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7:55 am PST, Dec 1, Margaret Kaminski, Michigan

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7:50 am PST, Dec 1, Ronald Kurtz, New York

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6:34 am PST, Dec 1, Philip Ruffolo, Wisconsin

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6:33 am PST, Dec 1, Janice Metelak, Wisconsin

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6:28 am PST, Dec 1, Katherine Houchins-Holsclaw, Maryland

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6:08 am PST, Dec 1, Darlene Georges, New York

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6:00 am PST, Dec 1, Dawn Stanko, Ohio
You and your "politics first" mentality, the money you take from lobbyists and lack of legislative courage has led us to the brink of economic disaster. Do something right and work to fix health care so everyday Americans can receive the SECURITY YOU HAVE FROM YOUR CONGRESSIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN!

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10:36 pm PST, Nov 30, Sally Marshall, Wisconsin

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7:56 pm PST, Nov 30, Janice Clark, Oregon

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7:49 pm PST, Nov 30, Name not displayed, Mississippi
As a social worker, I see people feeling the need to use disability programs because our patchwork system of employer-based insurance is insufficient. Employers should not have to choose between staying in business or providing insurance. I urge you to make meaningful reform that removes healthcare financing from the workplace, except where the workplace chooses to retain it.

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