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| rachel goodkind | CT |
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| Daniel Leibert | MD |
Maybe because I am in my fifties and unemployed without much financial resources that I am scared that I do not have health coverage. Having universal single payer government health insurance is my number one issue for me whether I vote for someone or I don't. I would vote for a war hawk racist if I knew they could deliver health care and I have always supported progressive causes for more than twenty years.
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| Ann Dupree | CT |
We are in a health care/health insurance crisis in this country with 43 million people un-insured. Many of us are teetering on the brink of un-inusrance. This is wrong.
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| Jeffrey Heath | VT |
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| Kathy Ullmeyer | VT |
I work for a free medical health clinic for uninsured. We are constantly overwhelmed with both the increasing numbers of patients and the critical symptoms they've been trying to cope with on their own. Approx 70% of our patients have jobs - they're NOT sitting home enjoying unemployment. It's a national sin to continue to omit such a huge and growing population when the money is directly diverted to the drug lords and the greedy and inhumane insurance companies. Can anyone really sleep if they realize they are contributing to their neighbors NOT receiving medical/emergency assistance? I sincerely hope not.
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| Esther Zuckerman | MO |
We have a responsibility to all Americans to provide healthy care.
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| Regina Birchem | PA |
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| Debra Sherman | CA |
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| Stephen Donahue | PA |
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| Sarah Lomas | VT |
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| Matthew Berg | PA |
60,000 people die annually in the USA who wouldn't if not for poor, indifferent, or total lack of health care. It's time to BREAK the HEALTH INSURANCE OLIGARCHY into tiny pieces and replace it with universal coverage.
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| Deb Hrivnak | OH |
I'm a single parent and can't afford what I need with what I make. What I do have is only good for one more year. We need something like this.
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| Kahim Boles | PA |
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| Miriam Carpenter | VA |
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| Betty Ann Peters | PA |
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| Thomas Peters | PA |
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| Evelyn Williams | MO |
Health should be the right of every American. Other countries take care of their citizens and Americans deserve that level of care as well.
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| Evelyn Williams | |
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| Ted Greenfield | IL |
Take away the greedy profit s
of amoral institutions and put the care back in health care.
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| carol musaraca | IL |
I am on medicare and it works perfect. My bills are paid in record time.
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| Lawrence L. Schwartz | NY |
A real and peaceful way we can change our world for the better! Let's institute this. If we support it, it can happen.
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| Tamar Schwartz | NY |
We need health care for everyone!
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| Edie von Wurmb | FL |
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| George von Wurmb | FL |
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| Scott Roos | IL |
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| Fran Sisson | MO |
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| Noreen Townsend | TX |
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| Barry Holder | IN |
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| Russell Fife Sr | FL |
Something like this has been needed for years. I sounds very possible that it can work.
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| Lynn E. Alden | MO |
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| James Shelton | OH |
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| Valerie Vaughn | VA |
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| Barbara Hall | CA |
I'm all for it! In fact I will live in fear until it passes.
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| Jeffrey Abbe | KY |
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| thomas parson | IN |
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| Betty Ortez | |
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| Dan Eckstein | VT |
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| carolyn sherrell | FL |
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| Don Kuhn | MI |
This is the single most important issue for retirees!
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| Laura Asermily | VA |
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| Nick Guetti | MA |
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| Suzanna Shields | NJ |
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| Sarah Buttrey m.d. | TX |
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| Marjorie Lester | CA |
We (Health Care for All
California) are working to provide a single payer system to cover everyone.
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| Carolyn Dull | VA |
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| Carolyn Dull | |
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| Dillon Durnford-Geszvain | WI |
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| John Smith | PA |
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| Jim Holsapple | IN |
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| Diana Schumann | VA |
Imagine how much money that would be saved and could then be diverted to preventative health if people were not forced to use emergency rooms when common illness becomes a serious matter. This could well impact the shortage of medical care professionals who could then be used in other areas than the emergency room.
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| Geraldine Perry | IL |
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| Jennifer Dunham | CA |
Yes, for a national single payer universal health care plan. It is a disgrace and barbaric that this country doesn't such a plan. The U.S.is far from the model democracy we think we are. Is universal care always perfect in some other countries? No! but far and above what we have here. I originate from England where no-one would ever want to be without their system, and don't envy me for being here.
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| Nathan Mann | OH |
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| Anne Harvey | PA |
Canada has universal healthcare AND cheaper prescription drugs. Why are Americans so afraid of universal health coverage...?
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| Lydia Lewicki | PA |
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| Bill Richardson | PA |
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| sally alvarez | NY |
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| Sharon Heverly | PA |
This issue has been debated to death and it is TIME to do something to help everyone in this country has afforable health care.
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| Amy Zehren | IL |
I really hope you take this seriously. How can our government lack so much compassion.
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| PATRICIA REYNOLDS | MI |
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| Jewel Jacobs | SC |
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| Stephan Bilynsky | PA |
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| Denise Benrahou | PA |
If the United States can spend 5 billion dollars a month in Iraq, spend additional billions on
foreign aide elsewhere, it can afford to require contractors hired by the federal government to insure health care to all their employees and have medical health insurance coverage to all other citizens of America. Any Representative for the People of the United States who does not understand or endorse this, should not be a Representative for the People of the Uited States. They work for us and when an employee put an employer at risk, they are fired. Period. It's time to start firing some of our employees.
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| Adam Eyring | PA |
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| Edie Feiste | IL |
We have a moral obligation to care for each other...and we can no longer allow the existence of this intolerable situation...CEOs and corporations making huge profits while so many people are suffering because they cannot afford health care and do not have any insurance coverage. What a shameful situation we have created! We MUST change it NOW!!!!
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| Marjorie Colson | WI |
I've been hard at this for 19 years and am, as ever, hopeful that it will happen in my lifetime.
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| Colleen Henning | PA |
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| Judy Hoover | PA |
It is embarrassing to me that our country is so far behind on this. Affordable health care seems to be our last priority. We must make it our first priority. What does this indicate about us in global opinion?
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| Kathryn Finau | CO |
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| William Martin | NH |
The health of our nations people matters more than money, war, and everything else. If we have no health within the country, and no internal harmony, we have no right to attempt to fix anything of the world outside.
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| Janice May | VA |
THIS ROCKS!
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| Joe Beckner | CA |
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| Carole Zatlin | MO |
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| Harneen Chernow | |
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| Fatimah Backush | CO |
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| Cindy Lau | CO |
We work daily with the medically underserved. The numbers are growing and the middle class either no longer has insurance or the co-pays and premiums are so high and the benefits are so low that it impacts their quality of life. The increasing number of baby boomers who will retire without healthcare provided by employers is going to totally break this already unfunctional system of healthcare. Clinics for the indigent are bursting at the seams and there is no place for people to get healthcare except for emergency rooms.
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| Sharon Johnson | CO |
Stop listening to the insurance lobbyists! Health insurance should be available to all Americans.
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| Loren Sprague | MI |
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| Doris Collier | VA |
We give all the time time to get a little back they can afford to
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| M Clement | NY |
WE can get a national health care system for all with prescription drug coverage and no more co-pays or deductibles or non-covered health care expenses. H.R. 676! Mr. Congressman, Gerald Nadler, I know you have signed onto this bill, and we are very grateful. But I urge you now to go to your colleagues and get them signed on. This is the only solution. We need it desperately right now. In fact, it is one of the main solutions to the problems in our economy. Jobs would not be going overseas at the rate they are if corporations here had the same health care advantage as companies around the world. Half of the people now going bankrupt would be solvent. And all of us would be healthier and more productive. Think about it, and take action.
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| Robert Toth | PA |
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| Bruce Trudo | VT |
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| Marc Kehoe | NY |
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| Beth Diamond | VT |
And it should include dental care as well. Someone I know who is on public assistance had dental problems that were not covered. She also had pre-cancerous pap smears three times in a row (being paid for by the govt). She finally got a private grant for her dental work and her next colposcopy was CLEAR. Dental problems definitely lead to other health issues.
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| Stephen Holbrook | MA |
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| Jessica Everson | TX |
Unequal access to health care is racism!
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| Jessica Everson | TX |
Unequal access to health care is racism!
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| Jessica Everson | TX |
Unequal access to health care is racism!
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| Kathryn Y. Stauss | VT |
Now is the time!
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| Jonathan Kissam | VT |
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| Laura Ramirez | VA |
One of the richest countries in the world? So, what's the hold up? Isn't it time we took care of our own?
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| Linda and Gene Farley | WI |
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| Roberta Swanson | CA |
We are LONG overdue for this type of health care system!! Single-payer universal health care....we should at least be keeping up with those other industrialized countries who have been implementing this type of health care system for many years!!
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| Arthur Naiman | AZ |
Can you complete this syllogism? 1. Every civilized country has universal health care. 2. The US does not have universal health care. 3. Therefore, the US is...
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| Michelle Prell | |
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| Ted Schoelkopf | FL |
I took a 17% pay cut since 9-11-2002 plus increased medical costs to our family. Congress still has the best plan in the nation why can't we all have the same plan?
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| Judy Leiken | AZ |
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| Mary Hess | CT |
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| Marilyn Mosso | PA |
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| sally tatnall | OH |
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| Marilyn Mosso | PA |
According to the Institute of Medicine, 18,000 people in the
U. S. die each year because they had no health insurance. And most who
have insurance are at risk of losing it. We have to act to make what is
morally right also politically possible! Let's make it happen!
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| Eva Barringhaus | MO |
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| Diana` Oleskevich | MO |
Stop the insurance companies from making a profit on our children's health care.
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| barry Wallace | FL |
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| Carole Wallace | FL |
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| Edyth Healy | MO |
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| Candace DeCou | CA |
Just waiting to die for lack of heathcare insurance in my underemployed old age.
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| Mary Haven | TN |
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| William Kehoe | IN |
It's ridiculous.. that our government should say "free Health care for all Iraqis at our expense.. and let our own die because it costs too much. Leave no one behind!
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| Lisa Ross | CO |
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| Gerald Comisar | CA |
The US is the only developed nation that does not have national health insurance. Now our health system is due to implode due to runaway drug costs and high insurance administrative fees. Both factors can be eliminatd by a single-payer health system -- like every other modern nation.
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| CATERINE J REIDLING | OH |
CONGRESSMEN, TRY TO LIVE ON 700 DOLLARS A MONTH, WALK IN MY SHOES FOR 1 MONTH
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| kathleen mcdonough | PA |
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| Dennis Paull | CA |
We can do it if we all work together.
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| Linda Prell | FL |
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| RaeLene Brown | CA |
The retired American's worked hard to build this Country's businesses, they should have the right to medical care! Everyone should have the right!
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| Cindy Odendahl | MD |
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| Nancy Buechler | MO |
Everyone deserves the same health insurance provided to members of Congress
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| Nancy Buechler | MO |
Everyone deserves the same health insurance provided to members of Congress
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| Nancy Buechler | MO |
Everyone deserves the same health insurance provided to members of Congress
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| charlie Grill | FL |
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| Jackie Brodshaug | ND |
All other developed nations have health care guarantees for their citizens. It's time we joined the civilized world.
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| Mark Dudzic | |
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| Charlotte Ellis | MO |
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| Cary Lund | PA |
High time!
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| Cary Lund | PA |
High time!
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| Ed Cloonan | PA |
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| elonda billera | PA |
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| Richard Bobak | PA |
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| Matthew Walsh | PA |
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| Kevin Chestnut | MO |
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| Mike Zielinski | MD |
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| Cynthia Richards | MO |
It is a disgrace that the richest country in the world--with the most sophisticated health care in the world--does not recognize a responsibility to provide health care for all who reside within its borders. Health care is a fundamental right, not a reward for the wealthy. Let's show the world that we can do the right thing.
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| Diane Magee` | MO |
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| Diane Magee | |
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| Margaret Harris | MO |
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| Sundhari Tolton | VA |
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| JoAnn Hughes | MO |
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| JoAnn Hughes | MO |
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| Berget Jelane | CA |
Universal health care is the only sane answer to our health care crisis. If the legislators won't do it, the people will!
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| R. Daniel Flippo | MS |
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| Elizabeth Smith | IL |
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| Jeanette Langton | MO |
OUR HEALTHCARE KEEPS GETTING REDUCED, NOT ENHANCED. WE NEED TO MOVE BEYOND THE THIRD WORLD NATIONS AND PROVIDE FOR ALL OF OUR CITIZENS.
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| Geoff Archer | WA |
Thank you for taking action on this issue - changes are long overdue.
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| Marilee Martin | MO |
An issue OWL advocates strongly. The US is the only developed nation in the world that doesn't guarantee health care as a right of citizenship. The US ranks 23rd in infant mortality, with St. Louis having one of the highest rates in the country.
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| Jarek Steele | MO |
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| Jarek Steele | MO |
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| Jerimee Richir | FL |
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| Glenn Johnson | FL |
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| Donald Polito | PA |
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| Jane Martin | WA |
Health care for everyone in this country should be more of a priority than acquiring new countries for the Empire.
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| Harriet Thurstlic | PA |
I hope people realize that we are in class war and the very rich are never satiated. We'd all better get active or our children and, at the rate this administration is redistributing wealth upward, we will be no more than serfs, or cannon fodder for this administrations interminable war. The facts related to this war translate...Corrupt officials will always choose to enrich themselves at the expense of middle class and poor people. There is no reason why this the richest country in the world has no national health insurance.
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| Beth Bower | VA |
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| Rabbi Steven B Jacobs | CA |
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| Dora Levin | ID |
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| Amanda Vollrath | VA |
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| Richard Duchin | CA |
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| Irma Duchin | CA |
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| Robert Kemper | MO |
I have been retire for just three years and alrady see health insurance eroding my income.
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| Marion DeMartino | FL |
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| Juliet Aiken | MD |
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| Martha Scheer | MO |
This would be less money than what we pay now and everyone would be covered. It is long overdue!
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| Benjamin Sutcliffe | PA |
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| Mary Yeazell | NC |
Bravo! to you who have organized this drive and to all who sign. Badly needed program.
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| Nathan Finch | VA |
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| Matthew Taylor | MO |
In a addition to those who have no health coverage there are those who are insured and cannot use it for the increase in copayments and the restrictions the insurance companies put on our health care. I remember being a child and being able to go the doctor or dentist as a child. My child has six cavities and has not had a check up in over three years, he is 5, since I have not had insurance. Now that I do, I am not sure how I can afford the extra payments the insurance company demands for even using the insurance. Please wake up and realize this not just a country to serve the wealthy. It is our country and we want it back.
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| Jim Berry | CO |
Yes, let's do this!
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| Naomi B. Isler | MA |
I admit to some uncertainty about whether 'single payer' can ever become reality, unless some deal can be struck so as not to put many of the existing employees of insurance companies on the unemployment lines. However, we need to do something about our deteriorating health care system SOON!!!!
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| Theresa Salcedo | VA |
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| Greg Heroff | |
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| Elisabeth Silver | WA |
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| Elizabeth Spaide | PA |
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| Cecil Feldman | NY |
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| BJ McGough | MO |
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| Laura Odendahl | VA |
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| Mary Berger | MO |
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| Angela DeMartino | FL |
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| Melody Monroe | MO |
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| Victor Sulkowski | MA |
Feel the love.
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| Denise O'Brien | IA |
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| Miri Regev | CA |
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| Maggie Milcarek | VT |
It is time we make healthcare a right for all persons and end the suffering that people endure because of the cost,inadequateness,and discirminatory nature of health insurance. A healthier society is a benefit and a necessity to us all.
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| Barbara Eastman | VT |
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| Faith Ann Robinson | MO |
It is time that the United States enters the twentyfirst century regarding health care and stop promoting and subsidizing the pharmiceutical companies and HMO's.
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| Eileen O'Brien | VA |
The U.S. needs to catch up with the rest of the industrialized nations of the world on this one! WE are leaving way too many of our citizens behind, and our infant mortality rate and cost per capita on health care stats, for example, show it. Powerful monied special interests need to stop getting in the way of our nation's health!!!
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| Lester Levine | NY |
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| Lorraine Wittman | NY |
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| Pat Markham | PA |
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| Lucian Neely | CA |
It's about time!
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| Kathleen Hernandez | NJ |
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| Laura Frankovic-Brown | MO |
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| Bernice Williams | MO |
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| Sagar Doshi | OH |
http://www.amsa.org/hp/uhcinitiative.cfm
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| Barbara Sibert | NY |
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| Robert Eaton | CT |
It's about time.
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| Sarah Parker-Givens | PA |
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| Dorothy DeFrancis | NC |
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| james smith | MI |
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| sharon smith | MI |
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| Misty Shur | MI |
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| Diana Scholl | VT |
My 24 year old daughter is currently one of the uninsured. Despite paying taxes herself since the age of 15, she cannot get medical care without great financial risk. She now owes over $1,000 for a (delayed) ER visit for a dangerous kidney infection. Why? Is this how we treat our children?
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| Steven Sadvary | PA |
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| Shlomit Gorin | CA |
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| Sharon Semenza | PA |
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| Jeannie Breeze | MO |
It's time for health care for everyone!
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| Marla Crites | CA |
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| John 'O'lesnevich | |
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| Pete Addicott | TN |
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| Patricia Matheny | OH |
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| Karen Sauer, MD | CA |
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| Stephen Jacobus | MA |
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| M Schmidt | PA |
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| Andrew Jacobs | IL |
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| Margaret Cabral | CA |
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| Helen Ortmann | PA |
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| Martha Rich | CA |
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| John Perry | NY |
National Health....BRING IT ON.
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| Bruce Halen | CA |
I know the money is there. The only thing missing is the collective will to make it happen. Here's part of my contribution to the collective will.
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| Christina Mitton | VA |
This needs to happen and it needs to happen NOW!
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| Jerry Lyman | IN |
Let your conscience be your guide!
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| Sara Eckert | |
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| Ann Marie Bouvier | NH |
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| Richard | OH |
Sounds good to me!!
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| Richard | OH |
Sounds good to me!!
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| Harold Stuart | MO |
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| Kathleen Parker | PA |
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| tom maclean | MA |
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| Lyla Emery Reno | PA |
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| Tulin Boston | |
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| Tulin Boston | CA |
For a country that is supposed to be the most privilged in the world, its health system, or lack of it , is a universal disgrace.
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| Toivo Luick | AK |
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| Jennifer Meccariello | PA |
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| Barbara Crawford | PA |
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| Margaret Emery | PA |
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| Carol Sturman | PA |
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| Adriane Jagger, RN | IN |
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| Chuck Barr | PA |
I think it's a grand, fine idea to take care of everyone.
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| Martha Koester | WA |
As Dennis Kucinich keeps saying "We are already paying for universal health care, we just aren't getting it."
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| CHARLES OLIS | IN |
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| Amy Beatty | |
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| William Monroe | NY |
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| Jerome Beatty Sr | IN |
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| linda ward | |
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| William Monroe | NY |
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| Michael L. Lindberg | MA |
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| Roger Balson | PA |
We need an active grassroots movement to make this happen. I urge everyone to start organizing in your communities to put pressure on your representative to make this bill law.
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| Norris Thomlinson | OR |
See also the full range of Kucinich platform petitions to sign: http://www.kucinich.us/petitions/
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| Kerri Duquette-Hoffman | VT |
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| Hilary Chiz | TN |
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| Robert Reinsmith | PA |
It's about time someone cares about the working poor and middle class!!!
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| Maria O'Brien | VT |
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| Sara Stalman | ME |
Everybody In/ Nobody Out
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| itrainsatnight@lycos.com | MA |
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| Deborah Messing | VT |
My father was a doctor from 1930 until his death in 1959 and was a vocal proponent of universal health care. I would like to see some progress toward this in my lifetime. Let's join the civilized world on this issue.
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| Karina Taylor | CA |
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| Kristin Summerlin | AK |
We can't afford NOT to do this.
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| Helene Blanchard | ME |
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| Ernest Guindon | OH |
One payer full coverage health care along with good education and healthy environment are basic to responsible government of a citizenry, by the citizenry, for the citizenry.
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| Alice dunning | CA |
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| Jason Lacoste | WA |
The majority wants this, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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| Bunny (June S.) Daubner | VT |
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| jessica morey | AK |
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| Joseph Radovich | PA |
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| Maria Somma | PA |
As a mother of two boys, it is important for me to make sure they have access to affodable health care. Universal Health care is a right for everyone and not just for the priviledged few.
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| Naomi Smith | VT |
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| Martin Dirks | CA |
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| Shirley Audette | VT |
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| Mary Alice O'Connor | CA |
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| Bill Kane | NJ |
It is time we change our thining on healthcare. It should be thoughtof as a Human Right, not a commodity or a benefit.
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| Edward Brett | PA |
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| George Neely | CA |
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| Kim Gardner | MO |
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| ROBERT EVANS | NY |
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| David Jones | NE |
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| Norlan Quinlan | CO |
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| Tom Tomkins | PA |
It is past the time when people have to decide between shelter, food or better health. If we are an enlightened society, there is no room for the darkness of greed.
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| Tracye Quinlan | CO |
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| Diane Dujon | MA |
Everyone needs good health care. It's a basic human right!
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| Sol Neely | AK |
Health care is just one front of the class war: contrary to the claims of the so-called American dream, freedom does not begin UNTIL the conditions of toil and misery are alleviated. One bill for Healththen one for education. No war but the class war!
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| Diane D | |
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| Jack Lucas | CT |
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| Kathleen Clark | VT |
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| cheryle p. stone | PA |
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| sharon blynn | NY |
I have encountered first hand how the current system is designed to specifically NOT cover those in need who cannot afford it. Besides a better health coverage system, we also need to do something about the exorbitant and offensively increasing costs of not only basic health care, but care for those who encounter health challenges with costly procedures/treatments, etc. We should not ever be denied the best quality of health care because of lack of health insurance (just think about how FUCKED UP that term is to begin with!!). We should ALL be "insured" about our health as far as receiving the benefits of quality care that is available and should be available to everyone.
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| Phebe Hunnicutt | CA |
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| Cheryl Howe | AR |
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| Jennifer Gokey | NH |
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| Charney Bromberg | NY |
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| judtih kimmel | CA |
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| Paul Lachelier | MA |
It's a simple principle: people over profits, and that entails health care for all, among other things (e.g., preventive care rather than drug-pushing to suppress problems, etc.).
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| Cheryl Betz | CA |
I believe that if Congress had to pay for their health care that we'd quickly see a solid health care plan in this country. We are long past due for better health care in a country this wealthy.
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| John McCollum | LA |
It is time to do the right thing.
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| John Myers | OR |
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| Eve Noonan | IL |
This is so very important
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| Ana Lachelier | CT |
It grieves me to see how we are squeezing the life blood of all our citizens for a war we never agreed to and yet cannot trust our leaders to find it in their conscience to give we the people, the right to Single Payer Health Care. What has become of us?
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| Carol Holbert | PA |
This is long overdue.
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| Sarah Weinberg | WA |
We need a national health care program NOW. It should cover everyone, and should be paid for by taxes on everyone. That will spread the cost fairly across the entire population - the way the rest of the developed nations do. "Medicare for All" sounds nice, but actually there are many things wrong with Medicare that we should not keep, such as unfair payment formulas and a ridiculous prescription drug policy. We also must include long-term care and dental care, as well as treating mental health problems the same as physical illnesses.
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| Eric Jantz | NM |
Health care is a human right. It should not be subordinated to profit motive. Until the profit motive is taken out of health care, millions will continue to suffer.
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| Jennifer Bedell | MA |
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