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| Mahesh Mudaliar | GA |
Consider Universal Healthcare for all irrespective of Race, Beliefs, Age. PLEASE MAKE USA the better place it can be.
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| Brian Tetrault | MA |
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| Christine Fournier | MA |
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| Leslie Fladd | NY |
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| Mark Hobratschk | FL |
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| Sally Gellert | NJ |
To put all 303,800,000 in one risk pool--the healthyan dthe sick, the old and the young, all ethnicities and "races"--is simple common sense. The larger the risk pool, the lower the cost--and taking out the obligation of private companies to make a profit just allows more money to go into actual health care. Please check out the Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org) for a look at the current broken system from inside.
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| sallie klink | WI |
Fix the health care and please, there must be someone who can take on insurance companys in this country. I cannot get my head around the politics behind the lack of common sense.
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| Cindy Biggs | FL |
I've always worried about the people out there with no coverage but I thought my husband and I were safe because we do. He is about to start receiving treatment for Hepatitis C and I'm scared to death him having insurance is not going to be enough. We live paycheck to paycheck as it is. What a relief it would be to not have to worry about our health bankrupting us.
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| Alice Jones | FL |
We desparately need universal health care.
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| Aimee Walsh | TX |
I am a simgle parent of 2 teenagers. I work a full time job and I am not able to afford the insurance my company provides. Therefore, the 3 of us have NO insurance. I am all for affordable insurance for everyone. We are 3 of the 50 million this petition stands for. Let's make this happen. Contact me anytime you need to.
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| melinda balezentis | TX |
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| Erin Frew | CO |
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| Terry Walsh | TX |
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| Cynthia Walsh | TX |
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| Crista Giuliani | NY |
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| Jamie Thorp | KY |
I pray for change.
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| Priscilla Lippincott | MD |
As a therapist for the homeless I see countless ways every day where people are unable to receive adequate health care, or the system is so woefully disorganized that those who qualify for medicare or medicaid are unable to receive it for months and months. I have a client who is fully qualified to receive medicaid yet his award has been delayed for a year now. As a consequence he has been unable to receive his shots for prostrate cancer. Where is the justice?
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| Marianne Alken | CA |
we the people
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| Christy Bryant | GA |
My 25 year old son has cancer. He has no health insurance and we cannot find any way to pay for his treatment other than to bankrupt our entire family. This should NEVER happen in this country. He may not survive until help arrives in the form of universal healthcare.
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| Amanda Iraheta | VA |
Everybody deserves to be healthy. anyone, any age, any race!!!!
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| Cotti Turnbo | CA |
Everyone please join and help our country move forward.
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| Connie Anderson | MD |
Our health care system is a travesty. People are living in fear because of it, worrying themselves sick because of it, and losing productivity (calling insurance companies to fight over co-pays, deductibles, and what's in-network for endless hours) because of it. It is clear the system we have is utterly broken - healthcare should not be a for-profit business.
When my husband lost his job a few years ago, the meds my son with autism needed went from $30 (a copay for a 3rd tier med) to $900 a MONTH when we lost our health insurance along with the job.
We need healthcare for every person in the country. We need healthcare unhitched from employment. We need it NOW. It is clearly possible as the Europeans have single payer national healthcare systems for all...and they have better health and less expensive healthcare systems than we do. Let's GET THIS DONE!
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| Daniel Avelar | MI |
I support this cause and sign the petition set thereof.
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| Karissa Sencion | NJ |
Amazing that this country has money to support the war, money to build a new stadium for the Yankees, money to bail out Wall Street, and the list goes on, BUT YET there is no money to provide universal healthcare. Is money more important than saving a life? I SUPPORT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
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| Derek Perner | MD |
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| Kane Casolari | IL |
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| Nancy Noall | MD |
Please let's quit denying the need for this.
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| Nancy Newman | MD |
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| Tim Redfern | TN |
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| Douglas Jacobson | CA |
universal health care -- helps all families.
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| Sarah Troutman | TN |
The fact that we give healthcare to all iraq citizens on our dollar & let folks in our own country die from lack of health care access is sickening. The tax payers are about to revolt, I don't even recognize the US any longer. I saw my sister, a mother of 3 children under 5 die because no doctor would see her because she could not get Blue cross to sell her a policy. She HAD MONEY but could not get help without insurance, Could not get ins. because she has a medical prob.
MAYBE if they stopped all the damn viagra commercials, they could make health ins affordable and accessable for all.
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| Cheryl Platts | MA |
I live in Massachusetts. Forcing people to buy health insurance is no solution.
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| Charles McCarthy | TN |
I need health insurance now!
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| Amy Lahm | PA |
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| Michael Joseph | CA |
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| Dallas Gilliland | MI |
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| JOHN KIGHT | FL |
I have been in between jobs for the past two years and do not have medical insurance. We need medicare for everyone and not just the special interests and we need to end this garbage HMO system where Americans receive less care so I say "HEALTHCARE NOW!!"
Thanks
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| Dana Thornley | NY |
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| Mobin Jafar | MA |
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| Aimee Mair | WA |
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| Liliana Bad | NV |
The actual healthcare system under the dictatotship and CRIMINAL GREED of the multi billionaire health insurance companies is a DISGRACE. USA is on the 37th place in the world in healthcare - what a shame!
Humana, for exemple, states out in their web site that NOT EVERYBODY QUALIFIES FOR INDIVIDUAL HEALTHCARE INSURANCE - this statement is APARTHEID. Everybody MUST qualify for medical care.
Visit the web site below and see how other countries, by far as rich and powerful as our country, have managed the healthcare for their populations
T.R. Reid: "I'm grateful to everybody who watched our film and took part in this terrific discussion. Please let me shamelessly note that my book on this subject, "We're Number 37," will be published by Penguin Press early next year.
Our health care system is overpriced and unfair. We could and should have the world's best and fairest system. Please keep working for fundamental change, so we can get there quickly."
To watch the film Click on the link below. Enjoy!
If the link in not operational from this post, copy it with your mouse and paste it in the browser.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
Reid is a former chief of The Washington Post's London, Tokyo and Rocky Mountain bureaus, and also had stints covering Congress, national politics and four presidential elections for the paper. He is the author of eight books -- three in Japanese -- most recently "The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
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| William Safarik III | NY |
If this could happen i would consider staying in the USA and not moving to a different country where healthcare is better!!!!
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| ANTHONY DELCORE | NY |
I COULD NOT BELIEVE I WAS SO BLIND. WE SEND MILLIONS
UPON MILLIONS OF AID TO OTHER COUNTRIES .YET THERE ARE 50 MILLION UNINSURED AND COUNTLESS OTHERS STRUGGLING .IF SOMETHING DOESN'T CHANGE MY NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM MIGHT START LIKE THIS "OH CANADA"
APPROVE NOW AND APPROVE FAST
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| Roland Li | NY |
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| Michael Albro | NY |
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| Jenny O'Neil | NM |
I support comprehensive and affordable healthcare for all.
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| Robert Carlson | TX |
Please make universal health care a reality for all US citizens.
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| Karl Brooks | TN |
Health care should be a basic social rather than Wall Street traded issue. As such it should be government regulated. This is what we have government for. Not providing its citizenry with comprehensive, accessible, and affordable medical care relegates the United States to Third World Country status.
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| Greg Giorgio | NY |
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| Giovanna Lepore | NY |
Healthcare for all and not bailout for the richest Americans who exploit the rest of us!
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| Danielle De Donno | NJ |
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| anna james | NC |
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| Latasha Johnson | IN |
The United States is one of the most prosperous nations in the world. It would make sense for a nation such as ours to be able to care for all of its citizens. Why is it that while we cannot insure all of our citizens, so wealthy nations can? I find this a complete shame and an absolute disgrace. I wholeheartedly support H.R. 676
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| Russell Walker | PA |
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| Sol DeMuth | IL |
The US doesn't have to be a third world country. Step up and make this required change!
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| Boston Beth | GA |
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| Christina Wall | WA |
I believe passionately in an America that takes care of its people, and I feel we have not been living up to that ideal any longer. I believe this bill would take us a few steps closer to bringing the morale of this country back up and have people start believing that being an American is a great thing once more. And I know this bill will help those less fortunate not have to put a price on their very life, which no American should have to do. Thanks so much. (From an insured American who doesn't mind paying a little more so that all Americans can be covered medically.)
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| Tinna Washburn | DE |
I just watched SICKO. I am deeply disturbed by what I saw and so darn jealous of the French!
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| Robert Sprague | NH |
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| Natalie Hernandez | CA |
I was moved by the Sicko movie. I am an employee to a non-profit Hospital and I see daily what happens to patients that have little or no coverage. It saddens me to bill patients for services their insurance companies should be paying. I'm lucky enough to be on the side of the patient fighting with their insurance company to make them pay. I get discouraged at times but I think the answer is to take the power away from the insurance companies and start being more proactive about helping these patients get their health back.
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| vicky cosgrove | NY |
Isn't it amazing they have $$ to bail out the thugs of Wall Street but have no money for national healthcare!
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| Dr. Prem Raj P, 62/103, pranavam, kochi, kerala, india, 682018 | IN |
62/103, pranavam, kochi, kerala, india, 682018
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| Dr. Premraj PUSHPAKARAN, 62/103, pranavam, kochi, kerala, india, 682018 | IN |
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| Chris Viau | RI |
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| Rhonda Aubrey | MO |
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| Bryan Hamilton | AZ |
I was 24 years old when i fell 30 feet off a building in 2006. do to lack of insurance i am 200.000 dollars in debt. i had to move into my parnts at the age of 27, and cant get approved for an apt. do to me credit. HMO's should be a thing of the past. I want to see FREE national health care rise up and take care of us all.
thank you Michael Moore in your continueing efforts to fight for the people!!!!!!
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| Julius Jahnke | FL |
Time has past to do the right thing. Plenty of money for corporate wellfare nothing for the citizens. Not a great deal for us.
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| Kay Kennedy | KS |
This is the most hopeful thing I've seen coming from Washington in a long time! Thank you for trying to do something good for the people of this country (your job, I believe)! I hope it succeeds--at last.
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| Delena Belanger | CA |
I have had 3 brain surgeries for a tumor. I have worked since i was 15, i am currently going to school to become an RN. I have been denied medical, but i am still paying for it from my pay checks. I am so angrey, i diserve to get health care help. the servious or restraunt buiness does not offer health care insurance and plus i know that i should have invested in it but school and other things seemed to be more important at the time. I believe everyone needs to have a fair chance at getting medical. my story is long that is just a brief cap.
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| Mary Moran | CA |
I am fortunate now to have a job that provides adequate health care. Years ago, after the birth of my child, that was not the case. I was laid off from my job & lost benefits 1 week after my child was born. Unemployed, unable to afford infant immunizations or post-delivery care for myself I was so angered by the total dis-regard shown to us by the health care industry. After having worked steadily & faithfully paying my taxes for almost 20 years - I was repeatidly denied services by even the so-called "free" government programs. By the time my child was 4months old I had wiped out what little savings I had & could not afford formula to feed her. Even the pediatrician who was paid before my insurance ran out would not even "donate" a can of formula to help!!
I ended up walking in a rain storm - carrying my 4month old infant - to the Salvation Army. They spent several hours making calls on my behalf until they were able to get a local merchant to donate 2 large cans of formula. I will ALWAYS be grateful to the Salvation Army for that - and will ALWAYS be against our current Health Care System - funded by, and for the benefit of ONLY pharmaseutical companys.
Health care is a basic human right. Socialized Health Care might just bring humanity back.
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| Simon Berkley | MO |
Are we a #3 world country Now ? Maybe we should all MIGRATE to Canada ? Or maybe France ? I choose France !
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| Carmen Shiller | KS |
Please before mom my dies , she is only 37 and I dont have a dad .I will be totaly alone .its hard to pay bills and eat and put gas in our car but we dont qualify for anything , they said she makes too much money !
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| Rachelle Morgan | IN |
Please universal health care before I die ?Please call Obama and tell him to endorse HR676 or he will not give it to us Obama.com
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| Ryan Loew | WI |
We need universal healthcare now. Insurance companies are making it so the hospitals get the short end of everything. They won't reimburse us(which i then get yelled at for) for missing one little piece of charting. I'm sick of it. It must end now.
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| Connie Beckham | AR |
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| Paul Oldford | CA |
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| Brittany Boone | AR |
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| Palesa Payne | CA |
Thank you for bringing this information to the people.
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| Thomas Diggs | AL |
We really need this now!
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| Erin Davis | VA |
I quit college in my 3rd year in order to become a contractor in the Middle East to: pay off my extraordinary amount of college loan debt, and to obtain health insurance since I would be dropped from my parent's coverage at the age of 23 (the age until full-time students are covered). I also have a pre-existing condition of throat cancer (even though I had never smoked and do not drink heavily), which would make it impossible to pay for or even obtain afforable insurance. I support this bill whole-heartedly so that when I return from working in the Middle East, I can obtain health care at little or no cost (which I currently receive from the Kuwaiti government as a permanent resident).
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| Felicia Thompson | IL |
I think what u guys r doing is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| vera baker | AR |
we needs this it would be an inprovement over what we have now.
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| Michael Puhalla | MN |
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| Tyko Nowling | MN |
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| brittany ward | VA |
our country gets many of the ideas that are implemented daily from other countries, why not this one?
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| Jeremiah Noel | AR |
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| Jeremiah Noel | AR |
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| Maggie Howell | ME |
Two weeks ago in Texas a young, single mother of two was taken to the emergency room in agonizing pain. Pain so intense she couldn't speak or walk. Her mother went with her so there would be someone who could tell the doctors what was goin on. Once inside she was put into a wheelchair and brought over to the front desk so she could fill out her paper work. The first question the receptionist asked was 'do you have insurance' The answer was no, she did't and the hospital sent her away. Can you imagine being in agonizing pain and reaching out for help just to be denyed that help which you so despratly needed? Luckily this American girl has a Mexican mother who rushed her daughter to the nearest hospital across the border where they preformed emergency surgary to remove her gall bladder, which was exploding. After surgery they had to put in a colostomy bag, but because hospitals in Mexico tend to be under funded and under supplied they didn't have the necessary parts; instead of a bag they stuck a rubber glove on the end of the tube. Acouple of days later she came home, to the United States, with staples in her stomach, a colostomy glove, and her live thanks to Mexico. This is a crime. Denying someone much needed care because they may not be able to pay is like putting someone in prison because they may break the law. This American hospital issued this girl, my best friend, a death sentence because she had no insurance and, it seems, because she looked like she couldn't afford it. There are so many of us out there with out insurance because we just don't make enough to cover the necessities of life and huge insurance costs and this just makes me wonder, if a person doesn't make enough to hit that upper middle class catagory, how great is America really? Are our choices either to pay for life's basics and not health insurance or to pay for health insurance but not rent, food, gas....ect? The Constitution's preamble speaks of promoting the general welfare and its amendments promise Americans ' life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'. There is no fine print in the constitution that states one must have proof of payment before obtaning the above mentioned. We have public education, why not public health care? I want to help you make a difference
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| Donald Krueck | OH |
The USA is the ONLY developed country without universal healthcare and it's long past time to remedy this. "Universal healthcare=communism" is nothing but capitalist propaganda designed to make the fatcats fatter. Having taxpayer funded healthcare is no different than having taxpayer funded fire departments, public schools, libraries, etc.
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| Valerie DalSanto | AR |
I believe that we need this system to help all of us. What we have now has not worked for a long time, and there are 45 million peole without care that proves this.
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| Charles Martof | WA |
We can do better
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| Jack Harden | NH |
One day... One Day...
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| Lorena Grimes | WA |
Health care is right to all persons. For a nation that claims to be free, we seem to be repressed by those you take our money.
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| cosme velasquez | WI |
lets get this done people!!
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| JoAnn Walker | MD |
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| Todd Street | KS |
We all know that the United States is the only industrialized nation that has no national health care plan. Why can we not get beyond this
philosophy that health care is a priviledge and not a right? Oh, I know, it's the insurance co's influence peddling of Congress and the current president as well as this year's candidates. The corporate owned media is also very cool to the idea of universal health insurance, and it shows in their slanted reporting It's up to us citizens to create the pressure to make it clear that politicians will pay a political price for their inaction. I'm afraid that is all they will understand.
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| Christopher M. Carpenter | VA |
I have been tortured for not having health care,
when the United States, can spend billions of dollars on other countries, but can't spend it on its own citizens. I'm shocked. The utter hell that I have gone thru not having health insurance and you would be amazed at the people in the Washington, D.C., area that take a check from the Federal Government, as employees, but they would deny health care to some one who doesn't have it.
I have a host of family members who fit this description. And my own mother even supports them morally and financialy when they don't appreciate it and when there own son goes with out health care. They are Republican
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| Jim Swofford | NC |
Insurance is a good example of market forces working against the goal. Its most expensive for people that need it the most. For me, the only way to truly distribute the load is to have everyone contribute, and everybody covered. This can't be handled privately without complicated regulations and monitoring. The simplest solution is universal health care through the federal government.
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| Jamie Harvey | CA |
I just finished watching SICKO for the first time. It will not be the last. I am a bipolar 26-year-old female with additional anxiety and insomnia. I have no income besides General Assistance (GA - $261/mo to my landlord - currently family - and $58/mo to me) and Foodstamps ($165/mo). I am unemployed due to my mental instability despite my BA in Chemistry from Reed College in Portland, OR. Luckily, "San Mateo County Mental Health" provides me with free mental health care including free perscriptions due to my lack of income. I have applied for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and have been rejected. My first appeal was also rejected. I am in the process of obtaining an advocate for my second appeal. I furthermore have endomitriosis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), bursitis, restless legs syndrome (RLS) and hypothyroidism. San Mateo County has a similar program (the "Well" or "Ace" program depending on who knows what) through San Mateo Medical Center for non-mental health-related illness, however their service is far less satisfactory. It took me over a year to obtain a General Practitioner, forcing me to visit the emergency room for every health concern (which really irritates the staff). Furthermore, it has taken over eight months for me to get an appointment with a gastrointerologist and I am still waiting for my referal to go through for physical therapy for my bursitis, which I have been pursuing now for nine months. My perscriptions are free again due to income level. In both systems, I have little to no choice in doctors. Most of them have been acceptable so far, some even great. All in all I consider myself very, very lucky which, in and of itself, is a sad thing for America's Health Care System. I am so grateful for San Mateo County. Who knows what would become of me if I lived in another county. Universal Health Care NOW!!!
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| Trina Richards | GA |
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| Steven Clawges | PA |
Amazing that this country only has money for war and corporate bailouts, but not health care.Imagine the freedom we would have switching into jobs we could do well in because pour health care would not keep us anchored to a job we despise or want to switch to to advance. We needed Universal Health Care long ago and need it even more today.
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| Barbara Neidhardt | FL |
Please save our healthcare system from being devoured by the insurance companies , the pharmaceutical companys and other related lobbying groups that are out to increase their bottom line instead of providing a healthcare package for the American citizens.
Thank You for putting the people first.
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| jamie barlow | CA |
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| Andrea Canton | AL |
I'm Italian, and I live in a town with a great universitary hospital where everyone receive health-care payed with our taxes.
They saved two my uncles this year with two operations, one uncle with one bypass at the abdomen and the other one with a bypass at the hearth.
Those life-saving operations costed more than 50.000 dollars, but Italy, a little country paragonated to the US, payed and saved their life (as they saved lots of life paying their taxes during all their careers).
I hope someone will make some change in US, and I hope that the 47 million people that shall die tomorrow in US for something little will receive a human basic right: the health-care right.
Praying God for you,
Andrea Canton from Padua-Italy
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| Stella Barrett | PA |
Those on Medicade are suffering, i.e. a friend who cannot get a cataract removed because he has no insurance to cover it and insufficient cash to cover it himself. Why do we make these people suffer?
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| Cheryl Gardner | CT |
I am on of the 50 million American without health insurance. I have paid my taxes, and worked many jobs over the past 27 years of adulthood. For seven of the past eight years, I have worked full-time and part-time jobs. Not one of them offered health insurance. Luckily I have been pretty health so far in life. I have been dealt a few blows over the years but have managed to pay for a couple of minor surgeries. This is an obscene situation. Congress people have federaly provided health insurance for life. Many of them are at least millionaires and could pay cash for an expensive operation. All people, not just rich people, in this country have a right to quality health care treatment.
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| marilyn forney | FL |
I have many health issue and with the 135 dollar
deductible i cant pay with my income. So its very
difficult for me to obtain medical care.
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| Annette Lavalle, RN | NY |
"Now is the time that we must choose between doing what is right and what is easy" Harry Potter
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| Keith Griffin | MO |
Our broken Healthcare system is at the heart of the country's problems. The current state of Healthcare is completely unacceptable. We need universal Healthcare, and we need it now. I implore you; no, I beg you to consider this petition.
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| Dorothy Maiorana | NY |
I just don't understand how so many other countries can provide support for their citizens and yet we who are supposedly global leaders can fail so dismally. I think it's time to revisit the national health care system.
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| Austin Urquhart | GA |
Make it happen... now!
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| Wendy Ketchum | NH |
As we baby boomers age, it will become all the more critical for a major change in our health care system. Otherwise, we will have a national disaster on our hands. How are we going to pay for the inevitable epidemic of Alzheimer's and dementia related disease, where its victims often live for 10 years or more with this condition that requires 24 hour care? It will cause major financial hardships for our children, and in turn, affect the whole nation's economy.
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| Carey Lorton | CA |
We must do something...the current way of doing this based on greed and self first is not American!
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| Lisa Davidhizar | IN |
THANK GOD FOR MICHEAL MOORE FOR BRINGING THIS ISSUE TO THE FOREFRONT, WE NEED THIS CHANGE IN OUR COUNTRY!
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| Rosa Maynard | IN |
Our current Healthcare system is going to destroy our country from within if we don't do something
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| Kim Decker | IN |
This is the first step in solving our healthcare crisis
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| Karen Renchen | KY |
Every US citizen should be entitled to the same health care our elected officials receive. Please pass HB 676. NOW
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| Meegan Wallace | VA |
Just do it....Now
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| Angelica Bryan | TX |
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| Marsha McHugh | CA |
Health care is needed, NOW!!!!
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| chris gibson | OK |
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| David Turrubiartes & Sarai Martinez | IL |
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| Denise Lollar | TX |
I am one of those millions of people with no health care and outrageous emergency bills. If I get sick or hurt I just self medicate the best that I can unless it is really bad then I try to find an emergency room that I don't already owe money to. I am running out of places to go. If my kids get sick I go without something (sometimes lunch at work for weeks at a time) in order to atleast get them antibiotics or again we search for a new emergency room.
I shouldn't have to do this. It's not fair. It's inhumane. If America is the greatest nation in the world why do we think so little of our own people? How is that great? I cant afford to move to a better country, I cant even afford to go to the doctor.
I can't give money as I have none, but I can give time, that I have. If you ever come to Dallas I can cook you a meal, wash a load of your clothes, share my living room, offer you a couch, or I can find you an emergency room, those things and can and do offer.
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| Melinda Cespedes | CA |
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| theresa bradley | PA |
My husband and I were just taken of state health insurance because my husband did the right thing and got a job to support his family and they say our income is now too much ( what he makes as income) and of course familys with very low incomes get no help but if you got money or know someone you have it made. Now we both take seziure medician which we are getting free. But hope we don't end up in the hospital that bill will kill us and we also trying to raise a 9 year old.
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| Chris Rollo | NY |
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| Lora Hill | GA |
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| Dawn Zimmer | NY |
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| Jeff Rohrick | IA |
Health care for all is not a social issue - it is a moral issue. Watching SiCKO for the second time last night, I cried over the way America treats its own citizens. I hate that I hate my country so much. I hate the amoral behavior that breeds in the board rooms of capitalism. I hate that we are a country who will get online to voice our outrages, but will not take to the streets, revolutionize, shut down the country until its moral spine is rebuilt. People are afraid of government controlled healthcare because it's socialist. Heaven forbid that we rise above the material demons of capitalism to embrace a world where all people are treated equally, cared for equally, and where the size of your paycheck dictates your expected lifespan. I cried when I saw the boats pull out of Miami harbor with sick 9/11 rescue workers heading to Gitmo because the health care terrorists receive is better than those who risked their lives to save others. That makes me sick. What makes me enraged is that we accept it. We praise the film, tell our friends and family to watch it, but we fill out forms online rather than taking to the streets, leaving our offices, demanding change. People die in revolutions, but will it amount to the 18,000 who die every year because of capitalistic healthcare? Probably not. But we will continue to live in fear of standing up, for fear that we may die. We're willing to die for the rights of people all over the world - except our own.
If you can find the money to fight a war, you can find the money to care for your citizens.
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| M McCollum | TN |
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| Wesley Moore | TN |
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| Eliza` Dodd | TX |
I had Vulva cancer and they gave me Vioxx !I was paying BCBS of Tn. $7,500 a year @17 yrs I only used it one time and they almost let me die .The ony reason they gave me a operation ? The UltraSound probe Broke off inside of me ! Then I had no insurance and I went to a emergency room a county Hospital in West Tenn and I was told sorry there is nothing we can do for you .I went home to die after Workmans comp Doctors gave me steriods ...trying to kill me ...I went home to die My kidneys and liver were shutting down ..I got on line looking for a healer ...a natural cure came up I tried it and I am ALIVE ! And I will fight now for my rights I have a RIGHT to Health Care ! I am Part Native American and I am AMERICAN !! The day I was refused @ the COUNTY ...the emergency room was full of illeag's and the parking lot ...I am not saying they dont deserve care ..everyone does ...But Hey I am AMERICAN and they told me sorry the State is Bankrupt from illeagsl and Walmart workers who dont have health care .I was never so afraid and alone and I am afraid again I think I have colon cancer and I am afraid to ask for help ...The last ime the WelFare person told me to get divorced or have a baby so I could get insurance .I have told that to other women and they have been told the same from The GOV workers as they told me .Please GOD let us get Universal Health Care HR676 !
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| Meagan Shipley | MD |
Single payer is the only answer.
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| Miriam Lewis | FL |
I strongly support the "One Payer Health Care" system that will provide ALL Americans access to quality health care.
Currently, if a person becomes chronically ill, the average person is financially devastated. The insurance dictates what procedures is covered, what portion they will pay, what is not covered, the portion you will owe for treatment, what medications you are allowed, and then raise your insurance premiums so insurance becomes unaffordable for the individual. Culmination of factors leading to financial devastation.
Some with good health and financial security may one day suffer a grave illness, and need a caring loving heart to help him/her through. No man is an island to itself, we are all linked...we help one another and assit each other and our human society.
Dear Legislators and Members of Congress: Lets pass bill HR-676 and help your fellow man/woman. You might be helping your Grandmother, your child, your neighbor, your friend. The good and assistance you help create for others, so it will be acknowledged and return to you in many blessings. By passing bill HR-676 you help raise the consciousness of the legislative body as life is a circle, make this a good choice for your fellow man.
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| Cathy Burleson | MT |
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| John Gibson | NJ |
I have health care, but feel everyone should. A civilized nation should never have suffering individuals that cannot receive proper treatments or diagnosis of a health problem.
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| charles kuzupas | FL |
we need this badly
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| Delight Bernath | IL |
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| Andrew A. | NC |
There are so many good reasons for universal health care...just read some these posts. I have type 1 diabetes and I will no longer be able to be covered by my parent's insurance later this year as I am out of school, but haven't been able to find a good job with benefits. I haven't a clue what i'm going to do when the time comes...I have been one of the lucky ones so far but time is running out and i barely have enough money the way it is. So write your congressmen & women. we need this change!
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| Bob Haiducek | MI |
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| Melissa Weiss | IL |
My mother should not have to sell her house to pay for her bills for healthcare. She shouldn't have to live on the edge of her seat worrying when and if she gets sick. I am in her position, just younger. I hope everyday I just don't get sick.
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| Daniel Wilkins | OK |
I believe that some things should be sold for profit. Coffee, donuts, and car parts to name a few but not health care! How can you put a price on someone's life? When a corporate executive denies a claim to make the company bottom line bigger...Is that not playing god? Don't these companies see that charging people for health care discourages them from getting care? I for one will not go to the Dr's unless I am wheeled in. This means I walk around and spread all my germs to everyone else with weaker immune systems. Thanks corporate america, no wonder the health care system is overburdened.
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| Sandra Butler | TX |
Do I have the right to get medicare at age 63, since I can't get insurance coverage because of the fact that I have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Type 2 Diabetes. No one will even consider me for long term care insurance. What can I do/will you help me to find the correct place to apply?
Thank you in advance for any trouble.
Sincerely,
Sandra J. Butler
butler44@sbcglobal.net
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| Katrina Dewes | AZ |
I AM TIRED OF SEEING OUR U.S. CITIZENS BEING TREATED WORSE AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM THAN WE TREAT DOGS. NOT TO MENTION THE DOGS PROBABLY RECEIVE BETTER TREATMENT THAN PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE SICK. THE U.S. IS ALWAYS HELPING NON-CITIZENS. IT'S WAY OVERDUE AND HIGH TIME THAT WE TAKE CARE OF U.S. CITIZENS. WHY IS BEING HUMANE TO YOUR FELLOW MAN ALWAYS LABELED COMMUNIST, MAYBE INHUMANE IS A CAPITALIST IDEAL!
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| Bonnie New | TX |
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| Matthew Wolber | IN |
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| Tanya Roberts | CA |
we need universal health care for all with the intent on allowing doctors to treat patients without insurance companies intervening by denying care. It's about people's lives, my life my family's life. We deserve medical care!!!
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| Madelyn Quattrone | NJ |
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| Colette Scammon | CA |
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| Anita Pryor | CA |
Yes, let's cut costs and actually get something for the money we are already spending!!!
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| Judy Huth | FL |
I just attended the funeral of a co-worker who died of cancer at the age of 42, she was diagnosed 3 years ago but had no health insurance. By the time she tried to get employer paid health insurance, her "pre-existing condition" was excluded. Now she's dead and her family is bankrupt.
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| Cathy Courtney, BSEd, MPH | TX |
Who reads these & connects folks with local & regional groups? Help organize RALLY for Health Care Reform at Houston City Hall, Oct 4, 2008 4-6:30pm Tell stories about med care, insurance problems; why US health care needs major overhaul! Single Payer & HR 676! Need speakers, performers, educational & info exhibits, music, tables, banners, issue papers, voter registration plus more. Contact form sign up at Health Care For All Texas website or email info@hcfat.org or email me c3_courtney@yahoo.com
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| Michael Johnson | MN |
I'm retired at age 63. My employer did not provide health insurance. I can't get insurance from private insurance, I don't qualify for MN Dept. of Human Services health insurance. I do qualify for high risk Minnesota health insurance. $5,000 deductible and I also pay 20 per cent. Anyway, can't afford the premiums, and if I could, that 20 per cent would be impossible to pay.
It's rediculous to think we have any kind of future with health insurance companies. They're in it for the money.
I would be nice if the United States of America would have better health care for the Citizens that most 3rd world countries.
It's beyond discusting.
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| Kara Wyatt | VA |
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| John James | VA |
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| chrystal fitzpatrick | MO |
my mom has digenerate disc disease shes worked for six years through her pain so she could afford her prescriptions, now recently she was diagonesed with a heart condition and high blood pressure therefore she becomes so ill she cannott work and her medicines run around 700.00 a month. my father has the only other income which is only 963.00 for being a disabled veteren and he cannott work because hes a type one diabetic with one lung whos been denied for social secutity several times. my family is not going to make it health wise due to not having any means of getting the healthcare they deserve. My father fought for our country and my mother has had a steady job for twenty five years, and she would work if she could. Im sick of seeing my mother cry, and when she does that her blood pressure sky rockets. I pray to god i do not lose my mother to a lack of a ignorant goverment that im sure every one has sufficiant insurance
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| Tom Ryan | CA |
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| bart boyce | TX |
we must take care of the weakest among us ...
there should be no one excluded from
great health care in a truly civilized world ..
it should be a primary focus , rather than war
and the associated trappings of greed ...
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| Adam Terbrack | MI |
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| Brenda Sanchez | NY |
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| Nico Phillips | NY |
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| Tom Mervine | CA |
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| Stephany Kraft | FL |
Our health insurance/medical copays cost more than any other expense we have. I would happily pay the same amount or more in taxes for socialized medicine because my whole $20,000 annual costs would go to healing sick people and not corporate profits.
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| Kate Radle | VA |
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| Betty Parks | TN |
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| Dirk De Pree | WA |
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| Jessica Robinson | OH |
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| Cindy Echevarria | CA |
The healthcare system in the United States is deeply disturbing. Doctors getting paid bonuses based on how many medical treatments are denied? Citizens being denied healthcare because they're too young and shouldn't have gotten a particular disease? Its disgusting to see just how greedy the healthcare system and our government is when it comes to the almighty dollar. Abolish the system as it is today, and revamp it based on other countries systems.
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| Jackie Hernandez | CA |
Take the profit out of healthcare, take the corruption out of the system, and put the nobility back into helping people get and stay healthy, and ALIVE!
IT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BECAME A MARKET! CHANGE NOW!
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| Raymond Duplease | FL |
The healthcare system in this country is a disaster. Not only are 45 - 50 million without health insurance, but also countless millions are 'covered' under inferior plans by insurance companies who don't care about anyones' health, but only the enormous profits from premiums they collect while managing to think of ways to pay as few claims as possible. There is no reason why any American should have no health insurance, or for that matter there is no reason why any American should have health insurance coverage that is inferior to the coverage enjoyed by their elected representatives in Congress. For Congress to fail to provide that same level of health care that they enjoy to the people they are supposed to serve and represent makes a mockery of that very representation.
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| Laurie Ruck | WI |
I work as a receptionist in an oncology office. Please--this has to pass. Grown men will stand before me and cry when I tell them that they need to be seen again in a week, etc. They don't have the money to pay for this and our losing their homes, and lives that they had before the cancer. People will present me with phony insurance cards, just to be seen in our clinic. I don't blame them--I would do the same thing. I have seen people deny treatment because they don't want to be a financial burden on their families. They go home and die, all for money. Please help us--no one deserves to die like this--we take better care of our animals in this country than our people. (At least our animals we can put to sleep when they begin to suffer).
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| Donald Bogie | NJ |
I know the health care business is only concerned with the bottom line. the greed that the drug co,s and insurance providers is out of control,why is it that medicare only pays 80% and you have to pay the other 20%, how about the co-pay you have to go into your pocket for, yet we can spend millions on health care for people that do not belong in this country, why do you think the hospitals are closing up?somebody has to pay for the people that do not belong hear, yet the government does nothing to correct it, this country is in big trouble,any form of government worker be federal state or local could care less, lifetime health care coverage-a retirement package that is more than the average middle class worker earns a year,this era is only the begining of whats to come and it does not appear to be good.
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| Beth Johnson | FL |
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| Christina Vanover | FL |
I cannot believe that I live in America and cannot get the health care I need. We must change now!
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| Cassandra Cosme | WA |
We need Universal Health Care Now!
It is an abomination that our country allows the current system to flourish at the expense of millions of citizens!
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| Amy Lockwood | VA |
Thank you Michael Moore. We need more of people like you. Healthcare in America is a real problem that we need to do something about.
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| Bruce Sutton | FL |
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| Xinxin Wang | NJ |
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| David Boulais | CA |
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| gypsy adams | NY |
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| Julie Stradel-Graf | MN |
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| Brenda Laffoon | IN |
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| Dennis Laffoon | IN |
Let's go for it!
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| David Levereaux | OH |
Most people don't know a fact about Kidney Transplants & Medicare.
If you have Kidney failure & have to go on dialysis & have enough work credits.
You are qualify to receive Medicare.
If you are lucky enough to get a Kidney transplant. And the transplant is successful for 3 years.
Your Medicare is taken away from you.
And you have to wait until you are 65 years old, to again receive Medicare.
This puts a huge stress on the transplant patient & the rest of the family. To have to worry about getting some kind of health insurance.
I heard that kidney transplant patients are the only transplant patients that louse their Medicare.
I think that your effort to bring an end to this health insurance nightmare, that many people in the United States have to endure.
Should be congratulated.
Thanks
Dave Levereaux
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| james gaffney | WA |
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| jocelyn jones | OR |
Whatching this documentry was a life changing event. I have always considered myself to be a caring individual, but I did not know how and where to start. Growing up without money and a family that supported the idea of education, I have "survived" through life without any real direction. Tonight I feel like it is time to get off my ass and get involved. This was something that moved me and made me ANGRY! In a way I'm not sure if I want to try and help change the way things are here, or just try to move away. I feel like I've been living for 31 years and just got used to the "hopelessness" I see around me. Thank you for taking the time to try and educate me and others.
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| Sally Yates | NY |
Health care should not be attached to employment. I had a job, I had good health insurance; my position was terminated, I had no insurance and only limited access to available coverage as an individual. I don't mind paying a reasonable amount for reasonable and reliable coverage, but our non-system doesn't provide for that. What a patchwork of plans there are across the country! It's insane, and the only thing that makes sense is single-payer national health care.
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| Maureen Motley | NC |
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| mary oliver | NY |
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| Inez Williamson | WA |
I am a disabled 47 year old woman who has just managed to work my way off of social security disability in the fine state of wa and I am very ill. I work from home on the internet.I am terrified that without a healthcare plan for the uninsured I will have the choice of a life of poverty or a life of untreated illness leading to my early demise. Clearly, something in our great country is terribly wrong. We need change now!
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| V Lijana | IN |
As a nursing student, I now realize more than ever how unfair our current healthcare system is. Everybody...regardless of their age, gender, or any other characteristic they may possess, deserves affordable healthcare.
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| Peter Shields | OR |
When compared with the rests of the industrialized world, we are anywhere from 10 to 50 years behind when it comes to covering all residents for health care. There is no excuse for the U.S. lagging behind in this manner. Expanding Medicare seems like the most cost effective way to guarantee coverage for all.
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| Jean Anne Cipolla | NY |
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| Katie Robbins | NY |
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| Bruce Wilcox | NY |
Is the government looking for a fight? We all need to take notice and fight for what is right! No more fearing the government...the government should fear the people.
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| Beth Gravitte | NY |
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| Danielle Wilcox | NY |
I want to make a difference. Everyone deserves the right to live and to be treated when sick! Why is it the wealthiest country in the world cannot seem to create universal health care? All politicians have one thing in common-GREED!!!
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| Troy Brito | NY |
The time has come for this country to regain it's humanity. It's time for the creed that has come to define this country in the last 50 years or so, of "Increase financial profits in ANY way possible" to finally come to an end. Health care and education are NOT privileges in a civilized society. You cannot have these things be "for profit" enterprises. Greed will always prevail in a free market system, over humanity. That's why government should intervene in such matters of importance to insure that the "right thing" is done. The right thing is to pass HR 676 now and let Americans be able to hold their heads high once again. Unlike how I had to slouch down in my movie seat because I was so embarrassed and ashamed to be an American citizen while watching the movie "Sicko." Pass HR 676 NOW!!!!
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| Anne McGrath | CA |
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| Jan Smith | CA |
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| Robert Wagner | AL |
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| Linda Chaney | TX |
In 2001 I was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. After finding this out, I found out that my husband had let our health insurance lapse because we didn't have the money, and I had just lost my job. I started my hunt for help. I made hundreds of phone calls, and got shuffled from one place to the next. I repeatedly went to doctors to be told it looked bad and it was going to be expensive. I repeatedly went to DHS for help, but they said my husband made barely over the limit for them to help me. We were scraping from one paycheck to the next with NO savings. Finally, I asked one of the DHS workers, "What will I have to do before you can help me, die?" She paused...and said, "Yes." So, with my hemoglogin at 3, with no iron stores, I started a job hunt, in order to get health insurance. This whole ordeal started in January, and I went to work in May, 2001. By the time I found the doctor who was to do the surgery, I was passing out in the bathroom at work, waking up in a pool of blood, and SOOOO much more. The doctor told me that I would have to wait for 30 days for the Insurance Company to cover the operation. In September of 2001, I finally got my surgery...Thank God! What is better is that NOW I don't have cancer! But for my government to put me OR ANY OTHER CITIZEN through that is CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT and no less!!! And don't think it was just a local thing in Phoenix, Arizona. I called Washington, D.C. many times, and wrote all kinds of people. I was very proud when Hillary Clinton wrote me back a very sweet, supportive letter. I wish she had gotten the nomination, but I know Mr. Obama has a lot of good ideas, too. I pray we don't have more of the same! I'm 52 now, and I am not entering my senior years with blinders on. I know my health care needs will escalate, and I want my tax dollars to go towards something that will actually benefit ME and my family...here in our OWN country!!! Can't finish this letter, because I have to go back to WORK for $12.50 an hour and no insurance...something people in Washington need to learn about.
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| Vanessa Roper | RI |
It is time for change right now.
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| Robin Young | CA |
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| Joseph Frankfurth | VA |
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| Christy Frankfurth | VA |
It is an embarrassment that a "world power" does not have the power to care for its citizens.
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| Linda Bertram | WA |
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| Bob Bertram | WA |
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| Brian Gonia | MI |
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| Sarah Poleshuck | NY |
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| KyNam Doan | MA |
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| Francisco Mendez | OR |
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| Adriano Massey | AL |
You all have my full support. May God bless everyone victimized by the current circumstances.
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| Judy Campion | CA |
Medicare is the only system that will work for all Americans. It is important to take the profit motivate out of medical insurance in order to provide affordable health care for all.
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| Rebecca Garden | NY |
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| Melissa Emond | RI |
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| LAURIE MALCHOW | TX |
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| Susan Jones | AL |
I work 40 hours a week. When I was approaching my 90 day review they told me the parameters of my job were changing and that I was becoming part time and would receive two checks from the two different facilities I work for. So therefore, I was not entitled to healthcare or benefits. At present, I have no health care but will be forced to buy a private plan which will kill my paycheck. I am putting all my energy into finding another job.
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| Thomas Canavan | FL |
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| Judith Canavan | FL |
We can only hope our leaders will support this bill and the American people. Why should we be one of the few countries to have no national health care while we go world wide giving aid to friend and foe. The insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and so called providers and their share holders are rich enough! It's time for Washington to do what is right for the American people.
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| Jeremy Huffman | ND |
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| Annie Rook | WA |
All the needless suffering has to end...now!
I wonder if these large companies and the goverment realise "greed" is one of the 7 sins???
Where's the "love" for human life and health..
I keep hope alive in prayer that our voice will be heard..
love and light to all,
Annie in Washington state
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| Hasan Kamal | GA |
No privitization - affordable healthcare for all
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| Cathy Courtney, BSEd, MPH | TX |
Rally for Health Care Reform, Houston TX October 4, 2008 4-6pm at City Hall. SINGLE PAYER, HR 676, universal coverage! No more insurance rackets; healthcare not warfare! Speakers, Tabling, Music, Artists, Voter registration & petitioners needed. Contact Coalition of Working People & the Poor, Houston Peace & Justice Center or Health Care For All Texas, http://www.healthcareforalltexas.org/contact_us.htm;
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| Eric Gearhart | AZ |
Billions of dollars for Oil, er, I mean Iraqi freedom and America is #37 in the world for health care... come on Congress, take care of We the People.
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| Larry Smith | TX |
Now is the time for America to come out of the dark ages of health care and provide it for all.
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| Deirdre Flowers | MD |
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| Dan Kelly | OR |
vote yes on HR 676
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| Linda McGraw | NY |
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| Loren G. Purtzer | WA |
If we can spend Billions for war.Why can't Americans be covered by health care??
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| floreence hinkle | NJ |
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| Sherrie Wilcox | AL |
I had to go to Thailand to get a hysterectomy, as I could not afford it in the states, once my insurance company dropped me.
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| Kim Bogue | MI |
I have worked as the Director of Social Services in a Number of Long Term facilities and have been outraged by the lack of qualified personnel caring for our elderly,not just the CNA's but also the physicians.Most of the MD's were near geriatric age themselves. Medicaid only paid these Doc's the most minimal ($11.00) to see patients- and would only pay them for 1 visit a month! This is the most compromised, fragile group requiring the most highly skilled and attentive professional care. Yet due to the lack of reimbursement, most new MD's sought specialities in far more lucrative areas!
Not to mention the other factor of exorbinant malpractice Insurance costs which also detered these new MD's from persueing areas like Ob-Gyn and pediatrics.
As a Social workers given the responsilbity to assure quality of life for these seniors I was often disgusted with the replacement time requirments for such necessary adaptive devices as hearing aids and eyeglasses- Medicaid would only allow new devices every few year- regardless of loss, damage or ineffectiveness. A disgrace to our National Image.
Many Seniiors were Conned out of their Medicare coverage by HMO's in the '90's.These Insurance Co's claimed better services, they Lied. I fought more with thee coverages for basic needs, which under Medicare would ahve been easily granted.These insurance co's 'Gatekeepers' barred even essential services like PT,OT and SLP,which serverely limited the patients ability to return to the highest level of functioning- thus leavbing many to remain in LTC, when they ccould have been given the opportunity to reach their fullest recovery potential if they had remained on Medicare.
Privatization, and Profiteering , in this industry has proven it is unable to provide a higherlevel of care and has in many cases proved to be detrimental to the citizens. Most healthcare workers know exactly What has been sucking the Medicare system dry..it is not the incease in demographics, it is the profiteering middlemen who have infiltrated the Federal funded system.
End Private for Profit Healthcare Insurance- they have failed with their dangerous and reckless 'cost cutting' methods.
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| chris duke | GA |
i took care of my mom thru cancer in 2000 and 2001
i took care of my 95 yr old grandmother form 2004 till this feb 27th 2008 i didnt work and recieved 160 dollars food stamps
i have returned to work and i will be 50 this year
i make about 24000 a year
after rent and food i have about 2 or 3 hundred dollars at most
i live in the cheapist place i could find
i have no saveings account curently
and want to pay for medical insurance
but with what i have seen i couldnt afford the co pay and deductable
getting older in atlanta
unless u make over 35,000 a yr i geuss you just die or have dependent children, only bright light i see is if i live to be 65 and can get into a manged medicare program which was great till my grandmother got sick phiscally some thing other then altimers then they seemed to want her to just go off and die
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| Andrew Gravlin | IL |
I very much like this plan. So far in my opinion if this bill or the Obama Health care plan dont pass, I am considering leaving the United States.
Health Care is just that bad here in the US.
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| Leigha Johnson | FL |
I am only 20 years of age. I didn't realize how big of problem this was before I seen the movie, I didn't quite grasp the horrible things we attribute to these Insurance companies who "have our backs." I fully came to realize this through my Grandmother, a diabetic struggling to pay all of her bills as well as her medication on her salary and unrealistic Social Security check she gets from the passing of my Grandfather.
After seeing the movie, I became even more aware of how many patients/residents I will never meet simply because their insurance company denied them the RIGHT to live comfortably. I am merely an Certified Nursing Assistant with one year of experience, in that year (at Long Term Health Care Facilities) I was told excruciatingly disgusting stories (from the residents themselves) about the 'clauses' in insurance companies plans. I am not only saddened by this, but feel a chill run up my spine when I wonder..."What did MEDICARE turn me or my younger sister down for when my mother was in school to become -Registered NURSE- when we were on food stamps and other government assistance"..........
It has always been a goal of mine to go through school, become an RN like my mother attain Bi-Lingual status. I am not so sure anymore I want to work for the existing system.
Extremely appalled & All for HR 676,
Leigha Lynn J.
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| Terry Nelson | TX |
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| Thomas Quinto | AZ |
We are the richest country in world with worst
rehealth insurance system. We need to begin to take care of own.
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| Alexis Condy | CA |
I believe we need to make quality health care available to all of our citizens. For a developed, prosperous country such as ours to lag in the area
of health care is anachronistic and very sad. I respectfully submit my comments. I encourage the passage of HR 676, Alexis Condy
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| Mary Beth Ozga | PA |
The current healthcare system is flawed. We are supposed to be our brother's keeper.
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| Greg Anderson | MA |
Health care is a human right not a for profit business. Health care must be paid for, but the cost of health care should not make people rich. If we all pay into a single health plan and cut out all the extra paperwork and middle men we can all afford excellent health care.
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| Catherine Weigel | NY |
I support this bill 100%. Health care is a basic human right. We all need to be on a level playing field. Why should someone I helped elect have access to something I can only dream about? Universal health care is not a dirty word. Get rid of the middlemen insurance companies with their bloated executive salaries and watch the cost of health care go down, from that one step alone. Americans are intelligent enough to know when they need care and when they don't. They don't need a gatekeeper HMO to tell them what they should or should not get. Care and treatment is between doctor and patient.
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| Rosie McClain | OK |
I would like to say thank you for all of you who has opened my eyes to the corruption in our national health care. God bless and thanks again
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| Derek Tabor | GA |
I am the father of a 23 week premature child. He had an extensive stay in the hospital, and continues to need services for his health. We are start to receive denial notices for these services. My son deserves better. Let's get it for him.
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| Catherine Tighe | PA |
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| Lisa Holland | WA |
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| Robert Holland | WA |
HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE NOW. TAKE INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF THE HEALTH CARE BUSINESS. PROVIDE EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES WHEN NECESSARY WITHOUT BANKRUPTING OR DENYING THE PATIENT (FAMILY).
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| Robert Austin | CA |
I fully support House Resolution 676 (HR 676) and demand that Congress bring it up for a vote so we can rid ourselves of the feudal healthcare system that believes in the trickle down theory of: "the poorer you are, the less you'll get". Get rid of the corporate healthcare system that puts profits ahead of health.
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| Kevin Kershner | MI |
It is an atrocity that this country has not had a universal health care system yet. Now is the time for health care for everyone of this country.
Universal health care for all the citizens of the country is a basic need requirement and necessary for the dignity of all citizens. To not do so is to cheat the people.
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| Alice Steffens | NJ |
It is obscene to allow our brothers and sisters die in this great country simply because they are not insured or are under insured. I am ashamed. Let's remember who works for who and vote, speak, write and take our power back. I'm so tired of allowing my tax dollars to be spent on death and destruction for another war for greed. For those running for office, Let it be known that I, a voting American, choose to vote to support life through health care for ALL.
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| Erica Hammond | AZ |
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| Paula Cook | IL |
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| Jenn Young-Bray | MI |
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| Perry Bowling | OH |
To many to list.
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| Perry Bowling | OH |
To many to list.
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| Mark Hanlon | CO |
It's out of hand. I can afford to buy insurance but the laws are rigged to favor the insurers and as such I am denied coverage because I have needed some medical attention from years of physical activity. What a joke.
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| Monica Perez | TX |
Count me in!!!
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| Cathy Saravana | FL |
The most powerful nation on earth and its citizens are dying from lack of proper healthcare. It is a shame! Canada, France, Costa Rica and Cuba to name a few nations, run a superior health care program for their citizens. Illness should not be a profit source for greedy HMOs, PI lawyers and doctors. We are falling apart as a nation from within, time to stop the insanity of it all.
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| DEBORAH GREENE RN | NY |
I could write a book !
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| Michael Fraser | AR |
I have a wife that needs a MRI and their is no way we can afford that. I am a full time college student. And we have a 9 month old son to take care of. Her leg puts her in so much pain that she can't even use crutches to walk. She cries all the time because of the pain. She just started a new job and couldn't even work her first day because of her leg and probably going to lose her job because of it. We went to the doctor and he told us that the knee was to swollen to know what was the problem. So now my wife has to deal with this pain until we can afford an mri and from what I have seen we are looking over 1,000 dollars but with our income we can't even afford that. We have looked for help and have recieved none. The sad part is this is supposed to be american and yet sick people die everyday because of someone else's greed. Make's me sick to my stomache. My wife and I try the best we can to take care of our son, ya our son gets great coverage but what about us. It is our son going to be like if he loses a parent. Thanks government.
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| jennifer gisler | MN |
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| Lara Pillay | FL |
Let the people live!
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| Jessica Sellers | MO |
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| Kelly Spinosa | NJ |
Healthcare should be availalbe and affordable to all, And you should never be denied healthcare!
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| Ellen VanWagoner | MI |
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| chasity lambert | MI |
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| Casey Mullin | IN |
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| Wendy Chou | PA |
I support democracy, universal health coverage and the power of free speech for all citizens. Please pass HR 676!
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| Matt Schneider | MO |
(About the Insurance companies and other GREEDY Americans)Great, you are smart enough to make money off of scams and good people. But your short term success has cost the future of this country long term peril.
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| Garry Royce | WA |
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| Brian Howell | SC |
Our government cares for the $$$ brought on by the drug/"healthcare" industry not about the people who make this country much less our health. Greedy slimeballs. Let's take a stand, make a difference and be duped no more. Thanks to Mike Moore for bringing the truth to the people.
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| Margaret Tufft | WA |
It's both sad and disgusting that our representatives are doing such a poor job of representing the people. These days it seems more like they're in the business of keeping their jobs....maybe so they can keep their own health insurance?! Start representing the people, not just the corporations...please.
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| Holly Howell | SC |
Thank you Michael Moore! Americans need to stand up for themselves & demand change! Our country and many of its people only care about money and themselves. People need to unite & care for one another! This inhuman, greedy selfishness must end! I believe the way our country is has rubbed off on the people. My mother just got outraged when I mentioned that I watched Michael Moore's Sicko & told her how great it was. She said it's not true etc. She wouldn't even listen to me. These are the people that need to be reached somehow.
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| Erin Walsh | WA |
I am tired of the cruel irony of America and it's lack of a health care system. I believe in capitalism when it comes to luxuries and things we don't need, such as cars, clothes, home decor, entertainment, etc. But necessities like health insurance/care should not be commodities profited on by capitalists with only the goal of money-making. Why is "socialized medicine" a bad word? We have socialized roads, libraries, schools, police and fire departments. Private health insurance is an enemy to the American public. Earn corporate profits doing something where millions of lives are not at stake.
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| anitra gazoorian | NY |
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| Aniela Solis | WI |
I just watched Sicko for the first time and am extremely outraged. I came to realize I knew so little about how incredibly inhumane our health care system is in America. Our government should be ashamed. As a country, the people with power who have the ability to do right by their country instead act selfish and greedy. My husband and I are seriously planning on moving to another country (France and UK seem like pretty good alternatives) for the sole purpose of obtaining better health care. We are fortunate not to [currently] have any serious medical conditions, and are covered by insurance; however, we cannot afford to pay our bills even with insurance. I hope that more people watch Sicko and come to a realization, that all these people who have already signed the petition, that something DRASTICALLY needs to be done. ***Mike Moore, I applaud you in having the courage, knowledge an decency to expose and illustrate such an important issue that has caused so much sadness and pain to the people in America.***
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| linda mendieta | CA |
my friend just died she coulding affordins she had a tumor she got cancer people neat somekind of ins. may god help us all
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| Michael Hamper | OH |
My family has spent at least 10,000 dollars/year for the last 3 years and after watching "Sicko" I was awakened to the situation around the world and I wanted to support the movement.
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| Jane Hannon | DC |
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| Tiffanie Efaw | OK |
I totally support HR-676! America, its time to start careing about the sick and injured and the middle class and poor. PLEASE IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO IS BLIND TO THIS, SO THEM THE TRUTH.
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| Janice coring | TX |
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| VICKIE KHERKHER | MI |
IT'S TIME FOR GOVERNMENT TO BE FOR THE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF FOR BIG BUSINESS
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| April Gedney | CA |
I hope for the day that I am not ashamed to call myself an American. Supporting HR676 is a start in the right direction towards that day.
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| WILLIAM RIPPON | WA |
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| joseph miller | FL |
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| JOSEPH MILLER | FL |
I NEED ALL INSURANCE FREE FOR MY KIDS. 17, 15, AND 13 YEAR OLD BOYS. DAD IS NOT GOING TO LIVE MUCH LONGER.
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| Sean Jimenez | NY |
I love the work of Michael Moore and im thrilled as an insured member of our "healthcare" system to sign on for such a wonderful and a well overdue cause. Long live free healthcare for all!!!
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| Cynthia Karl | NJ |
After watching sicko, I am feeling sick and angry at how ROTTEN the United States treats her people!!
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| Adam6 Will | AZ |
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| Judith Carr | IA |
There are too many people in the United States today who are suffering terribly or even dying because of no healthcare or inadequate healthcare--this issue needs to be addressed. I totally support a single payer healthcare system.
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| Michael Valenti | AZ |
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| Cindy Hess | MN |
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| pankaj sharma pankaj | AL |
Healthcare should be available to all!
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| Paulette Kenyon | CA |
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| Tamberly Janke | TX |
Sicko is a work of art - you tell it like it is, and I'm 150% behind HR-676. Just don't call it Medicare - that has such a "negative stigma" attached to it.
Incentivize physicians to get patients healthier as in the UK...the healthier their patients become, the more money they can make....
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| Karen O'Donnell | NC |
Please work it out - there are many organizations that are actively working on health care reform, but it can only be accomplished by our legislators.I ask on behalf of Emergency Room Nurses and patients, please sit down at the table with all the key stakeholders and work it out.
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| Carrie Schiff | IL |
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| Oksana Nichols | NY |
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| Kristen Hoag | MA |
We deserve universal health care NOW!
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