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| cindy carl | PA |
i am a diabetic and i work 40 hours a week but still i can't afford health insurance 350 amonth is to much for me to pay out.
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| Leanne Russell | OR |
Our current Healthcare system is a disgrace and a disaster. We all deserve to have quality, affordable healthcare equal to what members of Congress have. Right now my Blue Cross health insurence cost me $559 per month- up from $444 last year and I still have to pay for almost everything because I am relatively healthy!!! This system is outragously unfair and has to go!!!
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| amanda dalton | MD |
I am homeless. I am seeking psychiatric treatment. I write this from a friends place. I also have seizures and migraines. My psychiatrist says that I need a full neurological work-up including MRI and other tests. The cost would be in excess of $7000 just for a work up. This is just to determine my issues, not even treatment. I am homeless. If I had $7000 it would go to shelter first, then to an auto for work, then for food. Healthcare should be a right. How can I join the workforce and live independently if I can't even find out why I have seizures?
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| Stephen Hennessey | WA |
I work on the billing system for 2 major hospitals, billing over $2Billion a year. This system is a mess, and uviversal healthcare is the solution.
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| Michael Chapman | TN |
I am a registered nurse and we need universal health care now.
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| Thomas Thomas | CA |
We must have this now!
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| Amanda Baker | KY |
everyone should be able to go seek medical help if and when they may need it.
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| Susan Moscariello | MA |
I am disgusted by this healthcare system. Even having insurance that is outrageously expensive doesn't guarantee access to the best medications for the condition. The insurance companies dictate what meds are allowed. You must try lesser, ineffective medications before they cover the effective meds and waste time and money and cause suffering. It is dangerous; un-American; and against everything we believe in in the U.S. People die because they can't afford care. A complete new Universal Health care plan, not tied to the employer, is urgent. Where the patient and doctor decide what medicines are correct to which the patient responds well. These gigantic co-pays are prohibitive and people have to choose between which meds they take or what food they buy. It's absolutely outrageous and I am enraged over this. I know people, children, who can't take the appropriate medicines because the insurance company says no and the cost is prohibitive (read Highway robbery").
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| Eden Fitzgerald | MN |
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| Wendy C. Froggatt | RI |
We need to do something soon!! The health insurance companies are out of control!
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| Mariza Morin | TX |
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| kendal platt | AZ |
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| Stephan Schreuder | AL |
Free health for all life breeds love and more life. It is the proper human thing to do.
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| Hanny Shanar | TX |
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| Danielle Greene | VA |
Health care around the world, but not the U.S., is a basic human right. Health care providers get paid decently, but not extravagantly, and health INSURANCE is a government-provided benefit, paid for by general taxes, not ridiculous "premiums".
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| Jill Woods | MO |
I am currently uninsured. I feel that its a basic human right to have healthcare. Its shameful that in the richest country in the world people are dyeing because they are poor. We have got to take control of our country and help our people.
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| Carol Weissman | CA |
Shame! Shame! Shame!
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| Ricki Becker | CA |
My husband got laid off in April and our largest expense is COBRA! But, we are scared to live without it! He can not find work (in the building business) that would supply health care and I have MS, so we can bot do without.
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| thom roman | NV |
The US health care system is competely acceptible...for vast profits, for exploitation of the citizens so the multi mega rich pharmaceutical companies get richer every minute while people are dying for lack of medical treatments. The present Health care US system, the corporate giants, are a criminal monopoly dictating who should live and who should die. Can't Pay Health Insurance, then Die > is the American way, and what else is better than the American Way of life......that is, if you can afford it. The American Health Care system is not only a shameful sham, it is criminal.
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| Cindy Kruger | ND |
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| Sandra R. Goulart | CA |
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| Colleen Austin | MN |
I work in the healthcare industry. I previously worked in the ER til I got hurt on the job, not only did they deny me work comp, they are calling me a liar, and then I was doing homehealth and got hurt and they denied me because I have a previous claim for a completely different injury. I cannot believe that I cannot get affordable health care, even though I was a health care worker and now am earning about minimum wage, with my bills same as before, yet paying twice as much for health insurance, being on my husbands plan. Yes, I have coverage, but at 50 copays for medications and having seven meds every month, well it still costs twice as much for the copays as it does for the premiums. It is rediculous and I will move out of the country and become a citizen in another nation, with national healthcare, if it comes to that. France and Norway are looking pretty good. I will still vote while I am here, but only for those running who support national health care.
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| Elizabeth Ortlieb | TN |
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| Wendy Busch | WA |
As an Occupational Therapist, I recognize the need for reform. The single payor system makes sense and takes the manipulation out of for-profit, long term care settings. There is too much waste and too much opportunity for manipulation of RUG Levels, patients and healthcare workers deserve better!
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| Evelyn Buff | MD |
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| Liliana Badd | NV |
Unacceptable
The healthcare situation in US is unacceptable.
Those with pre-existing conditions are penalized, they are condemned to a slow death because the health insurance companies want to ensure only the healthy, the pre-existing conditions are the parias, this is unacceptable.
It is unacceptable to get DENIED to health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
It is unacceptable that lots of employers refuse to have group health insurance for their employees.
The individual health insurance plans are a ripp off or so expensive making them prohibitive. From there we find the health insurance abusers - fake health insurance plans by fake companies, crooks, who abuse the elder and those with pre-existing conditions or those without money to pay a premium, or the unemployed, crooks that operate in all freedom, unpunished.
It is unacceptable to get to file bankruptcy for not being able to pay the medical bills.
Health Insurance for everybody is a HUMAN RIGHT.
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| lauren guy | CA |
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| Joe Stevens | CA |
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| Robert Schwartz | OH |
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| Tim Schooler | KY |
Single payer healthcare is essential for the future well-being of the American people.
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| Joseph Soel | NY |
Nursing student .... who has no health care.... oh the irony. Pass this bill people are dying waiting for it.
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| chrisy relitz | FL |
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| Amber Hartley | WV |
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| Angie Haught | WV |
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| Pamela DeBarr | WV |
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| brenda smith | WV |
Universal Health Care NOW
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| Megan Murphy | CA |
If the United States is going to call itself the greatest nation in the world, then it should offer the greatest health care to ALL of its citizens. It is pathetic that nearly 50 million people do not have health care in this so-called "Great Nation". We should be ashamed of ourselves.
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| Joan Lafontaine | MN |
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| J DERRICK | FL |
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| Evan Waltzer | NJ |
I think it is a shame that the most powerful country in the world is the only major industrial nation not to have a universal healthcare system. America is supposed to be the shining light of the world not a backward land full of the greedy, apathetic and scared. Universal healthcare is the first step of many in improving America into the role model for the world that it ought to be.
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| Joshua Zimmerman | NJ |
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| Jennifer Beckman | CA |
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| Kassidy Heal | CA |
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| Laurie Waltzer | NJ |
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| Frank Waltzer | NJ |
As a 55 year old male who was let go from a major financial services firm last year, at the age of 54_1/2, after more than 25 years of service, I have faced a number of interesting challenges. Because I was not yet 55 at the time, I faced the option of continuing my company's Health care plan at a monthly cost to me of $1400.00 or going with COBRA to continue my plan at a cost of $1200.00 per month. Neither option was particularly appealing from a financial perspective. Luckily, my wife had been working at a local retail chain store long enough to qualify for health coverage for our family of four. Unfortunately, she was receiving minimum wage at that store and sadly the companies plan has a very marginal prescription drug program. Since my wife and I have a number of medical conditions, we are paying about $1000.00 a month out-of-pocket for prescription drugs alone. We will be okay, but only because I religiously put money into my 401k plan since 1982. However, I am not particularly thrilled with having to tap my retirement funds at the age of 55 so that I can keep my house, pay for living and medical expenses and a college education for my sons. This is the plight that people are facing when trying to support a family on middle class wages with inadequate health coverage. It really is a shame that in this, the most advanced industrialized country in the world, that people need to make choices between food, shelter, education and health care.
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| katherine haidary | CA |
I was working overseas for the past 20 years. I had health insurance there. On returning to the U.S. I was astonished to find that I am unable to get any kind of health care here at all because I have a pre-existing condition. I think healthcare should be available to all.
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| Glenn Spiczak | WI |
Let's do it!
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| Silvia Stoyanova | NJ |
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| Kathy Baker | AR |
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| Catherine Riddle | VA |
So many Americans need this, I'm one of the millions without health insurance.
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| Niki McGlathery | WY |
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| Dana Ericson | IN |
We desperately need an complete revision of how our health care needs are provided. A single payer solution is the only cost effective and humane solution.
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| John (Jack) H Herbert | OR |
We all need to get together with as much effort as it takes to arouse our fellow citizens to get good single-payer, universal health care coverage in this country. The movement has chosen HR 676, so let's push it until we get it.
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| Katherine Melvin | ME |
It is time we started taking care of our people!
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| Lynn Rabin | CA |
This bill is long overdue. When I was getting my MA in Health Ed. in 1993, the uninsured in this country numbered 36,000,000. We need to rectify this situation as we lag far behind the rest of the industrialized world on this issue.
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| Eugene Corbett | CA |
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| Danielle Kitchel | OR |
We are dying because we can't afford healthcare, yet we spend billions of dollars on wars. It is our national shame.
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| Nina Hunt | FL |
Please make healthcare a reality for all people in the U.S.!
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| George Bain | TX |
all for national health care 100%.
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| margaret beauchesne | ME |
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| Rick Lomando | FL |
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| Caprice Quashie | PA |
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| Grace Gross | TX |
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| Danalyn Robinson | GA |
Our healthcare system is a mess. Probably the worst of all the developed countries.
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| Chris Bernard | MN |
My wife had chest pains and debated whether her insurance company covered her. She decided to go to the emergency room. We are lucky she did. The trip prevented a major heart attack. Everyone should be able to seek care and not be concerned whether the insurance company will deny the charge.
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| David duff | PA |
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| Morgan Smith | WA |
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| Patricia Cistrunk | MS |
I agree with everything that you'll is saying we as americans we all need afforadable health care,and what about the health care companies will not insure people because they don't have a checking account or a saving account or a major credit card.The companies that employ men and women but they insure that individual that works for them but they don't give that individual the options to add his or her family, telling them that is the company rule but he are she can find some outside insurance keep it for 30days drop it and then they will insure the family members this is just wrong and i feel we should not only target out government but i feel we should target the insurance companies that treat people this way and industries that treat there employees this way when it will be coming out of there pockets.
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| Maryann Waite | NY |
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| Polly Reed | PA |
I would like to see each Pennsylavania Representative and Senator on the list of co- sponsors of this bill.
It is time do take care of the the horrible health care system in our country. This bill represents a sensible replacement though I am sure the insurance lobby will protest loudly.
They are part of the problem that got us in the situation and it is time we stopped being controlled by them.
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| Timothy Ohliger | RI |
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| Wendy Horgan | FL |
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| Sean Dougherty | NY |
I am very close to leaving the U.S. if we can't fix simple problems like this, it is becoming more and more evident that the top 1% is controlling a majority of this nation's wealth...I remember in history class learning about the bourgeoisie (sp?) and that when the exact same financial climate occurred in France, all hell broke loose, I hope it doesn't come to that but at least it would show American's still actually care about America
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| Jeff Pinter | NV |
The next president needs to get this solved fast!!!
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| Charlotte Ibarra | CA |
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| Nicholas Davenport | MI |
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| Robert Fleury | NM |
They insurance companys have our legeslatures pass laws that benifet there own entrests without consern for the american people We must take our country back!!
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| Kevin Mohan | FL |
I'm lucky enough to have health care through my work, but I hope this gives those less fortunate the same opportinity to what I call quality of life . . .
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| Catherine Beitel | NJ |
As the mother of five sons, all of them ineligible for insurance due to their ages and one with a "preexisting condition", a congenital birth defect called spina bifida, this is issue affects me on a deeply personal level. As a health care worker in a nursing home, it affects me as a witness to the corruption and sickening level to which health care has sunk. As one of the richest nations in the world, it is not only incumbent on the health care system to make health care available to all of us citizens, it's a basic human right without question or explanation. Do it.
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| Lindsey Helden | NC |
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| Katrina Flaws | NC |
I have three children who I stay at home with and homeschool, we are self-employed and have no medical insurance. It would be such a blessing to have some type of medical coverage where we do not fall into the "gap" of making $30 a month too much to get Medicaid or Health Choice, yet not earning enough to buy a personal PPO for $400 a month plus co-pays. We aren't rich, but having any type of medical services done in the family puts a bind in the regular household living budget, especially now with gas prices.
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| Rachel Bredeson | MN |
I am 25 years old and have type 1 diabetes and depression. I work 40 hours a week and can't get insurance from my employer until October. And of course I make "too much" to qualify for any assistance programs. I have to choose what is more important; meds, doctor visits, food, or a roof over my head! I have been trying to get 2 of my meds and getting a deal from the pharmacy they will still cost me almost $800 for a months supply! That doesn't even include my three types of insulin, test strips and syringes I need for my diabetes. How am I supposed to survive like this!? We NEED health care coverage.
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| Sarah Grau | AZ |
I cannot believe how angry I was after watching Sicko. I personally think that anyone who doesn't want universal healthcare, doesn't have to take it. They can continue to pay for insurance and be denied or pay out of pocket. But for the rest of us reasonable citizens, we realize that a society is judged by how they treat the least among us. And our society is sociopathic.
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| Elizabeth Hale | PA |
Please provide healthcare (as Canada and Europe does) to all Americans without charge. We need to get rid of insurance companies and just provide the best healthcare in the world to our citizens no matter what their financial status is. Please do not let one more person die because they can't afford the medical care they need. If it was someone you love, you would feel the same way I do. There is no price you can put on a life. I would gladly pay extra taxes to know that myself and all those I love and cherish will have the help they need, when it happens. And, it will happen to every person alive sometime in their life. Thank you so much. Nothing, is more important! Nothing.
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| Conrad Geller | NY |
Universal health care is long overdue. This country needs to get in step with other advanced countries in this matter.
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| Aaron Stark | MI |
Despite two working adults in my family with "good" employee-based insurance benefits, we still pay hundreds of dollars per month in co-pays to deal with medication costs for my wife's chronic illness. To join the civilized world, we need a single-payer health care system in the U.S. Please support and pass HR 676.
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| Antonio La Creta | AZ |
Military 4+ yrs. Worked nearly 50. Retired and on MEDICARE(It should be for all!).
Paying nearly $5,000.00/ year for my wife's under-insurance (It is for catastrophic purposes with high deductibles and copays). It is a short term, so will not be able to obtain one due to preexisting. My income barely exceeds the poverty level set by welfare programs as set by my state/county. So we are S.O.L. unless this bill passes!
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| terry agee | TX |
when are the american people going to wake up and understand we have the power to make this happen. we have been sitting back being comfortable and content too long, which is what our so called representatives want....
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| teresa agee | AR |
as an lpn i have seen 1st hand what our healthcare system does to those without. i have health insurance but can't feel protected after seeing sicko.
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| greg agee | AR |
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| Stacy Bright | WA |
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| Anita Melikov | TX |
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| Norm and Sherry Braaten | ND |
We ALL deserve the same health care as our Congressmen have. We need to eliminate the insurance companies that are in it for profit and greed.
Health care is the big issue for us in the '08 election.
Medicare needs to be expanded to ALL Americans!
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| Michael Reynolds | OH |
I would most definetally vote and support for this.
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| carolyn myers MD | FL |
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| Matthew Wilson | VA |
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| Tom Dayeh | TX |
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| Dave Thomas | WA |
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| Evan Hoffman | IN |
I hope it happens!
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| Sam Rao | CA |
There has to be a cap applied on the incomes of health care professionals. 50% of every doctor's time should be allocated to treat free for uninsured patients. Medicine is not a business, it is a service. Medicine is not for money minded people. Guaranteed medical care is the right of every american, no exceptions.
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| garret bright | CA |
HEALTH CARE 3rd WORLD COUNTRIES AND us NOW!!!!
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| Annette Tefft | MI |
It took America over 100 years to end slavery of Africans, 200 years to stop abusing the aboriginal populations of North America, 30 years to get a clue about global warming, and how long will it take for the representatives of the American people to hear our cries for health care.
It is an embarrassment to all of us that an American citizen can die in anguish and pain, because they can afford health care. HOW MUCH LONGER?
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| Kelly McLain | AL |
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| Stephen Ramnath | FL |
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| Chris Trent | AL |
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| melissa veloz | IN |
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| Sarah Williams | TN |
It is truly a shame what has happened to health care in the wealthist country in the world. Something has to be done to reel in the insurance industry and make them pay claims the way they did when we were children.
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| Timothy Williams | TN |
My brother is dying from auto immune hepitits., he has insurance.Yet this will destroy him financialy. He has worked hard for 30 years to own his house and he owes no one. His medical deductables will ruin this hard working man. he has been denied disability. He is to sick to work.
My niegbor has cancer and is insured,however she to will be ruined financially.Her cancer is terminal.What good does it due her husband for the bank or hospital to own thier home. They cant pay the deductables either. The American dream is ruined if you become ill.
Thanks for caring,
Sincerely,
Tim J. Williams
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| Marcus Rein | CA |
Our country is failing its citizens. No longer should anybody be turned away from medicine in our country in today's America. That is unacceptable and we need to cut our ties with the insurance behemoths that run our health.
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| Manny Treibwasser | PA |
Everyone Deserves Health Care Not Just The wealthly
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| Walter Keppard Jr. | PA |
I am a hard working forty year old in good health making a fair wage , but have no health insurance and cannot afford any. We live in the greatest country in the world! Or do we? Or is that resevered for only a select few?
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| Tatiana Gaalova | NC |
I cannot afford health insurance, so I have to pay over $200 a month out of pocket for the prescriptions I need. In Canada or Europe I wouldn't have to work constantly to afford my medications. Why can't it be so simple in the United States?
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| Allan Havers | TX |
It's about time all American deserve medical services at a affordable cost. it is disgusting the profits that the Insurance company make at the cost to the poor and needy
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| sean bishop | AL |
healthcare is a human right, not a privilege of the rich!!!
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| Rita Britton | NC |
Our taxes are liberally dispensed to fund our military in fighting wars off-shore. Our priority should be to allocate our hard-earned taxes to our own health, welfare and education first and foremost. Somehow the picture is all askew. Millions are unable to afford even a single visit to a doctor let alone be treated for a serious illness. Exclusivity seems to prevail in this country and leaves an ugly impression of us in the international community. How is it possible that countries with far less resources are able to offer great health care to their own. I can not understand how some of our own argue that they do not want to pay for other's bad behavior or unfortunate illnesses. We have all seen our loved ones, friends, co-workers and neighbors in critical situations at one point or another in our lives. Car accidents, cancer, heart ailments, birth defects and genetics are far more common than aids and drug abuse. What happened to "We the People... united in a common cause of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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| Ben Litton | FL |
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| Jeanmarie Steckler | FL |
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| Penny Hornsby | TX |
every industrial nation in the world has universal healthcare. we can get all the good/bad information in regards to theirs to develope our own. it is time. healthcare is a right. our country would flourish once the stressful burden of worry caused by the disgusting healthcare costs are lifted from the shoulders of the American worker. our work force will be healthier and thus more productive. it is time. it is actually well past time but now will do.
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| Allen Cable | CO |
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| Jeff Feuer | MI |
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| Sarah Betcher | VA |
!!No One should have to go without healthcare!!
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| Suzy Patron | WI |
People should be healthy!
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| Cristin Richter | WI |
Everyone had the right to be healthy and LIVE!!!
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| Robin Middleman | NJ |
Access to healthcare is a civil right.
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| Mark Hibben | ME |
Single Payer Healthcare Now for all Americans!
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| Jessica Taylor | OH |
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power - the world will know peace!"
~Jimi Hendrix
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| Iris Parsons | NC |
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| Carolyn Decasse | MA |
Single-payer universal health care is needed now!
I have personally seen enough decline in our health care system. We need an independent agency to oversee one system that provides the same and equal health care for all. The government needs to pay the bill after all it is our taxes that supports it. If the government had to pay it would behoove them to take better care of its residents. According to the WHO we rank at the bottom of the list for the health care that is provided to its people yet we are the most expensive. That in itself should make it perfectly clear that for-profit insurance companies are not in the best interest of this country. Everyone needs to take a stand and put their name on a list, don't be afraid!
Carolyn Decasse MLT(ASCP)
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| Colin Buzza | IA |
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| Torri Thomas | WA |
It's about time that the government works for its people, not people working for the government!!!
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| Maya Nitis | IL |
Although this country has little to no tradition of popular referendums, do you think there is anything to the idea of calling for a national referendum on this issue?
Thanks! and Thanks again for your wonderful work!
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| L. Mark Flagg | WI |
Please pressure Congress to pass UHC ASAP.
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| Michael Hutchison | IN |
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| Dana Schultz | PA |
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| Alissa Nutting | NV |
Health Care is a basic human right. Any country that cares about its citizens has an absolute duty to provide it. The greed of insurance companies is killing thousands annually. We cannot sit by and be silent; we must demand the care we are entitled to.
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| Denece Tasca | ID |
Our collective voices must be heard. Fear cannot deter us to speak what we all know to be true and right. Our government wants us to be afraid, sick and in debt.
Raise your heads,look them in the eyes, move your feet and speak up.
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| Brendan Power | AL |
Stop making health care a business. One of the richest nations in the world should not have a population with health comparible to a third world country.
How about instead of pumping money into saving peoples lives 3000 miles away, you try saving the lives of those 3 miles away.
Brendan Power
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| Griselda Vargas | TX |
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| Marie DeSanti | NY |
This country is in need of proper health care to be made available to all individuals in the US. Please pass the HR-676 (non-profit Medicare for All) as soon as possible so that every individual in the US can have health care.
Thank you,
Marie
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| Katy Washburne | WA |
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| Allison Von Mohr | NM |
Our current system isn't working. PLEASE - let's do something!
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| Joyce Marner | IA |
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| vicki fischer | OK |
I've been a single parent for 11 years. without health insurance for 5 years. Been denied coverage by 3 insurance companies, and the oregon health plan. I live on $1,500 a month. have hepatitis C, that was under control when I was on the medication 6 years ago. I'm afraid a major medical amergency could devastate our lives. I hope the system changes soon.
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| sandra terry | NC |
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| Patricia Nigro | FL |
We deserve excellent health care & affordable for everyone- rich & poor.
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| ROBERT RANDO | FL |
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| Andrew Sauber | OH |
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| Sylvia Terpstra | NY |
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| Chuck Watts | OH |
When neighbors look out for each other, America grows stronger. Human dignity demands we have health care for all.
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| angelica rosales | CA |
After watching the movie Sicko it really has opened my eyes to the ugly side of the American health care system and has made me very angry! I suffered a back injury at work in 2006 and having to go through all the evil tactics of the Worker's compensation. I will definatly support HR676 and i've already been talking to friends and family about this bill and they all agree having medical excellent medical coverage for all Americans is what we deserve and are entitled to! We are all going to vote yes on HR676! Look out you greedy insurance companies...Cause we a coming after you!
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| Melissa Lally | OR |
It is time to take profit out of healthcare.
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| Cindy Crampton | WA |
Please pass this bill as soon as possible. My sister has melanoma in her breasts (If she had breast cancer instead of skin cancer she would get coverage)and is unable to get treatment because she is uninsured and her alimony payment from her ex husband is disqualifying her for Medicaid and other services. Our family has been a residents and US citizens for many generations.
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| Lawrence McNabb | NC |
We are the greatest Industrialized Nation in the World and it's pathetic how we spread our "good will" throughout the globe and we can't even take care of our own citizens. We have "sick care" not Health Care and we don't even do sick care that well. A healthy nation is a strong nation.
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| Casey Tyler | MI |
This is the greatest contry in the world with the greatest people in the world. Treat the people the way they deserve.
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| Shirley Patterson | NC |
Everyone needs health care. My husband and I work 40+ hours weekly each. We have one child together and he has 2 kids by a previous marriage. We by law have to keen insurance on his other 2 children and that is $200 per month. I have insurance thu my work which is free, but I can not afford insurance on my husband because that would be an extra $400 per month. I do have insurance on our daughter, but don't know how much longer we can afford to pay for it with the rising prices of gas and groceries. We now have to choose between groceries or health insurance. I guess groceries will win!
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| warren lovett | NC |
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| barbara lovett | NC |
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| Lawrence McNabb | NC |
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| Rebecca McNabb | NC |
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| Art Sage | IL |
My wife can't get insurance, heart attack, brain tumor.
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| Melissa Meyer | IA |
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| Diane Patton | CA |
I would like to see an excellent comprehensive national health care program put in place that would also include alternative health care treatments such as chiropractic, accupuncture, accupressure, homeopathy, ayurvedic and other forms of body work as well as mental health care. Holistic and traditional health care should not be available only to those who can afford it - everyone needs and deserves quality care and excellent health!
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| Christian Phillips | NY |
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| GAVIN BOLEY | CO |
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| Wendy Williams | OK |
I quit a "good" job with benefits because the stress of retaliation from my employer was ruining my health. I was the EEO/ADA Officer for a large county government. After turning in an investigation report in which I sustained an employee's allegations of discrimination, my boss ordered me to change my findings. The order was illegal and violated state and federal laws; consequently, I blew the whistle on him to the elected district attorney and county judge. They did nothing. Six months later, The county commissioners voted to abolish my job. I had tread upon "important" toes. Per our civil service rules, I was given a lateral transfer because I refused to quit. My employer's retaliation continued for the next four years. I lost weight to the point of emaciation, and began experiencing related health issues. I finally reached the point of quitting believing it was the only option I had available to save my life. I could have sued and won at least a few hundred thousand, and kept my job. I didn't want to sue, I just wanted to work. Within a few months, I had exhausted my retirement fund paying for my bills and monthly COBRA payments. It has nearly been five years. I have not been able to find another job and have not had any medical coverage. I lost my home, almost lost my car, and would have been homeless if I hadn't had friends who provided me places to stay for a few months at a time. I have outstanding medical bills with at least half a dozen emergency rooms, I've lost count. I will never be able to pay them, nor would I if I could. I'm an angry woman because of what I'm endured. I've moved nine times during the past two years. Try to get a job when you move an average of every three months. You can't. I'm 53 years old, have a strong family history of cancer from both parents. I haven't seen an OBGYN or had a mammogram for several years. In essence, I'm waiting for the cancer to rear up and die to relieve my miserable life that is devoid of quality. In our current economy and political climate, nobody will hire employees over age 50. I have degrees in finance and a juris doctor. So much for the "American dream." People in this country are losing everything and dropping like flies. We will soon reach a point when the haves no longer have us lowly have-not grunts to do their bidding. I suppose they will outsource the work we have done for them in the past and import workers to perform that which cannot be outsourced. Thank God my grandfather and father who served this country with honor during WWI and WWII did not live to see the shameful disgrace the country for which they fought and loved has become. Funny, our president is on TV right now, it is Independence Day. He's espousing the virtues of our country. What a lying sack of $#!+!
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| Jeanie Darnell | CA |
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| John Darnell | CA |
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| richard whatley | MO |
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| Kristian Bryant | GA |
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| Garrick House | GA |
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| Sandy Longfellow | GA |
We are counting on your help!
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| anthony coladonato | NY |
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| al Ingrassia | NJ |
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| Marie Ingrassia | NJ |
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| maryann ingrassia | NJ |
for me, my family, and my patients, HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE, NOW!
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| monica kehoe | NY |
I am a registered nurse. We need universal health care now in the
United States. I am dedicated to doing what I can to help that happen.
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| Mark Rochon | CA |
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| Greta MacMillan | CT |
I work in an inner city ER in one of the poorest cities in the nation as a social worker. It is disgusting that the US does not have universal health care. It is a racist, bigoted, discriminatory country that does not offer the basics to its residents.
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| Elizabeth Clark | PA |
Not only is it necessary to provide health insurance but also affordable medical care covered entirely by that insurance.
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| shea holliman | KY |
We all need healthcare.
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| Margaret Parks | FL |
I heard about your website through Grit TV on Free Speech TV. Your proposal sounds sensible and compassionate to me.
I am 62 years old without health insurance. I can't afford it even if I could be accepted. I am a breast cancer survivor for over 10 years.
Private insurance companies only exist for profit.
Health insurance shouldn't be a profit driven service. It is a necessity just like food, shelter and human rights.
Thank you for your efforts. I hope your campaign grows and gains recognition.
Sincerely,
Margaret Parks
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| Peg Pollack | CA |
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| Margaret Reges | IA |
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| Susan Mendez | OR |
I think if the government and medical organizations truely believ EVERY ONE is intitled to health care they would really put an effort into a national health care program.
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| Will Riley | GA |
HR 676 lays out a plan to cover every American's healthcare. The fact that so few people know about it is a real tradegy. At the very least, every American deserves to join in on a serious discussion about the future of our health. We need our politicians to spend some more time on this issue. HR 676 is the a great step in that direction.
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| paul golden | MI |
please make this happen
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| patricia donnelly | WA |
For the sake of HUMAN BEINGS in this country it is time -- health care for all.
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| jane burnand | OH |
It can't happen soon enough for me, and millions more...
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| lisa pittman | MS |
In December 2006 I had a nervous breakdown and possibly two mild strokes which left me with blurred vision in the outter side of my right eye. At that time I had health insurance, but the doctors I needed to see were 50 plus miles from my home and then there was the forty dollar co-pay so I was not able to follow through long enough for any diagnosis. I did find out that I have "spots" on my brain which had not previously been there, cysts on my ovaries, and about 60 percent of the required amount of blood in my body. I was not elegible for workers compensation, because the only type of diagnosis I had was mental and that does not qualify for it, I could not get unemployment benefits because illness as a reason for quitting a job disqualified me for that. I have recently been denied Social Security benefits, and the lawyers that I have cannot help me because I am not receiving any type of health care. I need help.
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| Andrew Borakove | NE |
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| Esther Kim | CA |
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| Ana Bui | CA |
We have the right to get excellent health care considering how much we pay on taxes.
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| Nathanael Kelsey | WA |
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| Coral Carter | OH |
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| THOMAS KETTELLE | MD |
There is only one way you will get affordable healthcare, vote for Obama & all Democrats.
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| jessica britton | NC |
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| John White | WA |
More cars are now built in Ontario than in
Michigan because of US health care costs.
In Canada Auto companies don't have to pay
workers health care costs.
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| Mary | NC |
My father is bedridden with crippling chronic back pain and $50k in debt from medical bills and general cost of living with no income, unable to even sit long enough to fill out forms for SSD (I am in the process of helping him do this, but I've read that the vast majority are denied). The despair we both feel, the lack of hope, is also crippling. It feels like this country is falling apart and its citizens are demoralized. Please help by giving us the basic human right to health care. Please help us. Please.
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| Christie Baisas | KY |
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| Debbie McCoy | TX |
At 44 years of age, I cannot get traditional insurance unless I pay $1390 per month under the state risk pool. My condition has caused me not to be able to work fulltime anymore and my husband has not been able to find employement this past 2 months making any insurance out of the question. If something happens, we will be in a major mess.
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| Patrick McCoy | TX |
I cannot get coverage that is affordable for myself at age 58 and can't get coverage at all for my wife because of Sjogren's Syndrome; unless we pay $1390 month for her alone. Currently, in Bankruptcy and unemployed we have to drop what little coverage we were able to get and it only covers up to $50,000 an occurrence; with a $1 Million life maximum. It is almost worthless insurance with the cost increases that Doctor's our facing because of insurance companies. Medical care, Electricity, and phone service all belong in the government monopoloy area because we have seen the diaster caused by the privatization of electricity and phone service in the US; Where is the promised savings when everything has doubled since it occurred? Some politicians and their funding providers are getting rich with middle class funding them.
It is a shame that I've worked all my life and can not expect any affordable, decent insurance in my older years. And my wife at 44 can't get insurance other than through a state risk pool that is so expensive as to be laughable; $16680 per year is absolutely ridiculous price for one person to pay and only get 4 doctor's visits per year and if a major illnes will it ever be of use. We've paid through the nose for years and now that we need it most, can't get or afford coverage.
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| Lynn Kirry | NY |
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| Marie Reed | MS |
I am an RN and former employee of BCBS of MS. I acted in the capacity of a Nurse Consultant and my main responsibilities included denying benefits based on 'medical necessity' and other terms listed in the difficult to interpret
'contract language'-It was the first time i truly learned the meaning of the phrase' the squeaky wheel is the ONLY one that gets the grease'. There were so many people who had claims denied because they didn't understand the 'rules' of their contract until it was too late-However, those that did call and complain and/or made threats to contact their local insurance commissioner, would suddenly have their claims paid and their denials reversed-I couldn't help but ask 'what about all of those people who weren't the type to call and chew someone out-someone like my own mother or sister or daughter, people who didn't like to 'rock the boat'? These people were left paying large sums of money that others in the same situation did not have to pay-Strictly because they weren't accustomed to having to call and demand things to get fair treatment.
As for the movie "Sicko", I only wish more focus had been placed on Mental Healthcare-I have worked with medical as well as mental disorders and i can tell you with no hesitation that as a country our poor treatment of our medically sick is only outdone by the treatment given to the mentally ill-The revolving door from the treatment centers straight back out on the streets when the insurance runs out is a never ending process- Please help us make a change!
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| KATRINA RIDING riding | CA |
This is more than a disaster.
Please..!!!!! Michael gave us the information however now we need a leader on this issue and a clear plan. An agressive plan. Everyone I have suggested the movie to wants change yesterday.
You need a person in each state that can organize the people of that state,There needs to be a set date for protest in every state and washington D.C. Please Organize and Lead so we can all have hope. You would have overwhelming support. After this movie is viewed peopele are move, send an e-mail to their congressman and are left still feeling hopeless, even more so than before they saw it.GET THE BALL ROLLING AND TELL US WHERE TO BE. You have more support than you know, Just people overwhelmed by "The problems to big theres nothing I can do" There is power in numbers and organization. Time for a revolution
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| Joseph Mcphee | MI |
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| Andrea Boydstun | TX |
Single payer system, health care for all, Medicare for all, whatever you want to call it, it's Universal Health Care for American Citizens and it's the ONLY way to go. We must join the ranks of the other industrial countries and leave the ranks of third world countries and establish Universal Health Care. And just think how business friendly it would be! Just do it!!!!
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| MARIA CHRISTINA NOSIC | CA |
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| Nicole | TX |
The United States is in desperate need of healthcare reform. I work in the medical field and see first hand what our current healthcare is providing for our society. Individuals are using emergency rooms as primary care providers escalating wait times to hours. Those that need emergent care are experiencing delayed care due to the over crowding of ER’s. Patients have to decide whether to pay rent or buy groceries before paying for need prescriptions for life threatening medical conditions.
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| Michelle Rodgers | IL |
I have been denied coverage for a necessary surgery as I have not been with my insurance company long enough and it's a "pre-existing" condition. It's life threatening and must be done. It's not like I planned for it to happen. It's criminal that these companies can charge so much for so little service and can blithley ruin peoples lives for their own profit.
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| Douglas Godfrey | MA |
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| Arlene Wespestad | NJ |
We have obscene amounts of money for the military-industrial complex, but no money for universal health care? Yes, they do think we're idiots.
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| Lisa Rothstein-Goldberg | MD |
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| Pat Pearlman | FL |
If socialized medicine is a right, then it follows that all those who work in healthcare should be obligated to do what they do and also to do it for free. That is an idiotic notion. How about Hollywood actors doing movies for free to cover it?
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| Jason Budjinski | FL |
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| Woo-Sung Kim | CA |
Your Sicko show me how I was ignorant about what's really going on America.
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| noelle beaugureau | CA |
It is the time for us as a nation to stand up to this system. The insurance companies say they are there to support us when really they would prefer for us to become sicker and in worse health so they are able to reap financial gains. I believe this is one of the most important issues facing America today.
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| Patricia Zimmermann | CA |
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| SUSAN MADAR | NY |
I am a mature woman in desperate need of health care. I do not have insurance and I am unable to afford almost all health care.
I am intelligent and have a lot to offer. I believe that I deserve health care.
Please act on this important piece of legislation NOW.
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| Martha Robinson | IN |
I would welcome opportunities to advocate for nationalized health care. It is most sickening that my family and members of my community do not have access to health care except, at best, through the lens of an insurance company. It is most real in health care but it penetrates into all areas. Recently I spent a day cleaning sludge from a home that was under water for three days. The reason we did this deplorable job was because the insurance company required it before they would inspect. So not only did a couple loose all of their belongings in the home they lived in for seventeen years, they were forced to see their belongings piled in sludge and back-hoed away. Who knows what disease was also being spread by the rot being shifted in order to placate a policy of an insurance company. But the worst is the hassles of the health insurance industry and the restrictions on making profits on my illnesses.
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| Susan Osada | IL |
Support HR-676!!!
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| Anita Kelley | CO |
I support HR676, 100%.
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| Tricia Walker | VA |
I don't feel it's fair that we are one of the leading countries, but our healthcare system is corrupted by greediness. We all would be happier as a whole if we were all allowed the same value of healthcare. People are dying because of our system and it breaks my heart that we are allowing it. We would not have to worry about our insurance deeming our condition not "a medical necessity for treatment" and then not paying, leaving us in debt to pay it ourselves or go bankrupt. We deserve better than this,we cannot ignore it any longer, and I pray that this bill is passed~
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| John Meyer | NV |
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| Vic Bloomberg | MA |
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| Melissa Menendez | FL |
What can I say? We need universal healthcare in the U.S.A.
My family and I are uninsured, and everyday I am living on a prayer, hoping nothing will happen to us.
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| Ashley Evans | KS |
No one should ever be turned away because there insurence is not good enough or because they can't pay. Medical bills should not cost thousands of dollar and make people go in debt. Last summer i got really bad posion ivy and had to go to the ER because i couldn't open my eyes and my whole face was swelled up. i spent 1 hour in the hospital and had no insurence my total medical bill was $800. for that price i spent 2mins with a doctor to tell me i had poison ivy, gave me a shot, and a Prescription and sent me home. Im single 22 female with no kids that lives on my own and can not afford health insurence.
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| Kurt Frees | OH |
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| Audrey Lyle | WA |
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| Adam Freeman | IL |
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| Sarah Millerbernd | MN |
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| Giulia Bova | IL |
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| Audrey Goodwin | NC |
I am a single mother who has NO health insurance for myself. I can not afford private coverage and the coverage offered through my job cost too much. I pray everyday that I stay healty, I am at a lose for words, this situation of American citizens is terrible, all Americans should be covered, it should be mandatory by our government.
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| Hazel McCollum | CO |
HELP !I can Not pay Rent and Electric and eat and afford Health Care ...something has to go to afford it ! And it will end up being me ! I am only 47 yr old HELP !
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| Dennis Boltzs | IL |
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| Iris Renee Ford | AL |
When I got sick The Welfare office said (if) I had a Kid the state would give me Health Care now .But other than that I am on my own .I am very sick .I am 45 yrs old I have no kids or family .They say I make too much money @ $6.50 an hr !!! I can hardly pay for the food I eat and rent !I get more tired everyday .I take over the counter diet pills to keep my energy going .I dont know how long I can go on or my body .Please pass this bill America ?
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| Sherri Dollar | TX |
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| Cynthia Bogue | IL |
Everyone in this country deserves the same access to healthcare.
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| Andrew Hong | CA |
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| Lim Hong | CA |
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| Di Q. Hoang | CA |
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| Denise Hoang | CA |
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| Arye Shapiro | TX |
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| Sarah Sigford | MN |
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| Cynthia Bauman | MA |
It's about time we took a step toward single payer, universal health care.
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| Sharon Y. Cobb | FL |
Put the health of our citizens and planet first, not mega-corporations that are making record profits.
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| Coline George | CA |
I will be happy to walk door to door--whatever you need. I am a cancer survivor that will probably be allowed to die for corporate profits. I was promised lifetime insurance by Gannett (USA Today). Now I believe they are trying to drop me.
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| edward meyers | GA |
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| Steve Marner | IA |
Having had company health care most of my life its a real struggle as a independant contractor affording health care. If you are not in a large insurance group the costs and deductables are getting out of hand. My wife is working for the University of Iowa because we need the health care benifits.
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| Yevgeniy Ryskal | IL |
I fully support any kind of reform to the current health care system employed in the USA.
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| Robert Hamilton | IL |
We spend so much time other countries and yet we cannot provide our own citizens with health care?
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| Kimberly Brostrom | IL |
I fully support this legislation. I am one of the over 47 million people in this country without healthcare. I am a college adjunct professor, but healthcare is provided for the full time professors-not us! Meanwhile, the CEO of Signa makes around $30 million/yr. I am an American citizen who works hard, and feel I deserve "Kennedy care" too (well said at the Socialist Conference). In the wealthiest nation in the world, this should be a human right!
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| Kyle Jungk | WI |
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| Amie Krepel | CT |
As a single mother with an aging parent to care for at home as well, I am continually squeezed by rising health care costs along with everything else. I live in fear I will lose my job with all the cutbacks and I have pre existing conditions. I make good money and I still struggle to pay all the co pays. Please support Medicare for All.
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| Jennifer Harper | CA |
No one should be denied treatment in our country nor should a parent have to struggle to pay for medical treatments for their children.
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| Frances Cummings | CO |
My family has no insurance. My husband and daughter have epilepsy an I have diabetes. I go untreated at times so that my husband and daughter can have their meds. I am currently looking for a career so that I can have insurance, hoping that they will accept pre-existing conditions. With universal health care I won't have to worry anymore.
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| Lauren Taylor | FL |
Dear Diane from CA. Doctors are just as much to blame as the insurance companies in this matter. You can't even schedule an appointment with a physicians office if you don't have insurance. An if you are lucky enough to get in with a doctor you are charged anywhere from 50-70% more than what you accept from insurance. Why is that? Especially if I am willing to pay out of pocket right at time of service. I know that insurance companies have a huge bargaining advantage over us little people but you doctors make plenty of money. $280 dollars for 10 minutes face to face with a physician. What a rip off. I recently went through this with my parents. Luckily I was able to get them through underwriting to get a hospital surgical plan through an individual policy in case of a major health problem and we also got them an indemnity discount card that pays for the first $50 of service at regular doctors but at least it affords them the network discounts. Even with this poor coverage where they are still subject to a $10,000 out of pocket expense in case of a hospitalization they are paying $200 in premiums per month. This whole system makes me ill. We need univesal coverage now even if it is administered through private insurance because we all know that the governement is inefficient!
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| Aaron Roberts | MD |
Stop working for the lobbyists and start working for the American people that vote you into office!
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| Charles Jungk | CA |
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| Marge Johnson | NM |
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| Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights | ME |
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| J. D. Vear | ME |
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| B. McLean | ME |
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| Nikki McLean | ME |
I continue to be horrified and appalled by the ongoing healthcare crisis in this country. Not having healthcare when I needed it nearly destroyed my life. It has caused so much pain, suffering to those I hold dearest to me. These insurance industry is really nothing more than organized crime. Let's kick them the hell out of our country and get us all some healthcare.
Nikki McLean
Leadership Council Representative
Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights, Portland, Maine, USA.
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| Jesse Flynn | ME |
America needs universal single payer NOW!
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