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| Patricia Windle | CA |
I feel that many of us struggle when it comes to the rising cost of healthcare and the majority of America's working families can't afford it. We no longer can eat healthy meals because it's getting too expensive to buy vegetables and the healthy foods that go along with it. Our health insurance costs are cutting into our means to live healthier lives.
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| Bettina Lambert | CA |
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| bryan bell | WA |
As a Christian, I am willing to contribute to a national health care plan that would cover americans that are uninsured. I currently have health care through my employer but I know many people who do not and they are too often forced into debt to pay large medical bills.
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| Susan Erzen | WA |
Health care should be a right of all those living in the USA, not a commodity that is distributed and sold to those who can afford it and leaving those who cannot afford it without any health care coverage. The Citizens Healthcare Working Group made its final recommendations and noted that there is "remarkable consensus among Americans for public policy that ensures all Americans, regardless of their financial resources or health status, have affordable health care coverage"
I support a single payer system to provide healthcare for everyone. That will take healthcare decisions out of the hands of private insurance companies. It will mean expanding medicare to all citizens. As noted in the final recommendations of the CRWG : Perhaps the most challenging component of the Working Groups strategy is Recommendation 4: Defining the core benefits and services that will be assured to all Americans. But the CRWG also found a clear willingness amongst Americans to pay a fair share, to try to do a better job of taking care of themselves, and to accept limits on coverage if based on good medical evidence.
I urge you to stop letting insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies make our health care decisions. We elect our senators and representatives to make the difficult decisions that meet the needs of our citizens.
I ask you to step up to the plate and make the difficult decisions to realize affordable healthcare for everyone. HR-676 deserves your vote.
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| Stevan Drobac, Jr. | PA |
If National Healthcare is not a law on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 please vote out the INCUMBENT. Elected positions are not employment opportunities. All medical benefits paid for by tax dollars must cease and desist by the 111th Congress. Please show me where we the voter (employer) voted to approve medical and pension benefits for our elected officials. I do not want my tax dollars being used to pay for medical and pension benefits to an elected official who does not know how to vote for NATIONAL HEALTHCARE.
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| Linda McClure | CA |
The candidate backing HR 676 will have my vote in 2008.
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| Hugh Sanborn | CO |
Health care should be made available to all Americans without delay.
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| norm decker | FL |
Healthcare is an oxymoron in America. The system from the ground up and especially the pharmaceutical industry must be controlled by a system that is universal. Included should be tax changes that do not allow the industry to effectively avoid taxes. I think that a system could be developed that would almost provide coverage for the entire nation by just eliminating these tax loopholes for multiple physician offices and pharmaceutical industry promotional practices.
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| Alfred Klinger | IL |
We are considered one of the worst countries of the so called industrial countries when it comes to taking care of the medical needs of people in this country. The costs are outrageous. One of the largest causes of bankruptcy is the costs of medical care.
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| Lincoln Justice | MO |
My first wife and I had to divorce--break up our family, so she could get health care at home or a nursing home. Our private insurance would not pay--only Medicaid.
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| Michael Lippman | WA |
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| Sharon Fisher | DE |
The insurance industry is strangling all of us. They are the only winners in the current health care crisis. The providers and clients all suffer from the chaotic, byzantine system we are currently forced to live and die with. Please bring a single party payer system and some sanity and health to our country so we can live with the health standards of the rest of the industrialized world instead of shamefully trailing behind.
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| Thomas Carlisle | NM |
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| Michael Philip Kaufman | NY |
On sustained and honest reflection, the case for single-payer healthcare becomes irrefutable. Since health insurance depends fundamentally on spreading actuarial risk across the widest possible population, it follows that multiple for-profit insurers can only compete by striving to select less-risky subpopulations (and/or by refusing payment on claims). Any resulting profits are effectively stolen from those who must insure the "leftovers" -- be it the government (as insurer of last resort), or other insurers (or, more to the point, those insurers' customers, who will pay inflated premiums). In the end, this sort of competition simply guarantees that either some will go without healthcare...or we will all pay for the most expensive care, while the for-profits prosper in a rigged game of chance.
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| HENRY D'SILVA | PA |
Implementing the healthcare plan that is right for the country is what is most important, not the plan for insurances, pharmaceuticals, politicians or corporations.
Single payer tax funded healthcare privately run and publicly accountable is what is needed with proper monitoring to ensure quality, adequacy, safety, privacy and that everyone is treated appropriately cared for.
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| Wayne Wilson | MA |
The people of America deserve comprehensive single payor health coverage. The United States was the first country to mention universal coverage back in the Wilson administration and is the LAST to impliment it. I presently have no health coverage, and if I were to fall ill it would devastate my family (my fiancee and our two month old twin sons)
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| gary morgan | NY |
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| Marlena Santoyo | PA |
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| Edward helmer | CO |
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| James Yeargin | NY |
What good is a country that has no single payer health care system? A country that is destined to first, mediocrity, then disintegration. Would you raise your children to devour you? That's the equivalent. Putting healthcare onto the Roulette Wheel of predatory profit uber alis, speculation is a bankrupt and unsustainable system. No wonder the European countries have superior life style and sensibility while US Agribusiness feeds people addictive junk to kill off their customers. Even Henry Ford realized that you have to have a healthy clientele to sustain your society. This country's leaders and profit obsessed fat cats are totally ignorant of history and any sense of the object of a meaningful life.
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| Agnes Valois | FL |
I have heard that people feel entitled to have health care, as if health care is an unreasonable expectation.
But it is not unreasonable to expect good health and living wage and retirement. Production and wealth have become the only moral value of this country. People do not count anymore. But the world is for people. The things we do and the things we build are for people. People come first and they are entitled.
Corporations and the wealthy claim are entitled to take what they can grab. They say we earned a bigger share of the worlds resources. They are entitled to use the infrastructure of this country for their advantage. They are entitled to use our citizens as workers and consumers. They feel entitled to a huge portion of the worlds resources. They feel entitled to refuse others life and health.
I think we have to take the reigns of this government from the cooperate world and give them to the people again. Health care for everyone would be a good start. We talk about human treatment of the people in other countries. We talk about the atrocities that they have to endure, while we ignore the atrocities that our own citizens have to accept. Many people do not have the money they need for their medicine even if they can get to see a doctor. People are literally dying because they can not afford to live. I have a friend that I have hear that people feel entitled to have health care but they are not. Our government does not believe that our citizens are entitled to have a good quality of life. They do, however, feel that corporate and wealthy are entitled to take most of the resources in this world for themselves and are entitled to keep what they take. But the government maintains an infrastructure for these corporations through the taxes on its citizens. Why are corporations entitled and citizens are not. The world is for people, not money, or corporations. Please give all of our citizens AFFORDABLE AND COMPREHENSIVE INSURANCE.
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| John Horgan | MA |
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| Dr. Sheila & Rev. John Collins | NY |
Health care in the U.S. has become a national crisis and a national disgrace. As the richest nation in the world it is unconscionable that 47 million people go without health care in our country. We support government guaranteed, universal (NOT privatized) health care as the only economically and morally defensible solution to the health care crisis.
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| Lindsey Wahl Vandrovec | IA |
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| Karen Wyatt | CO |
As the Medical Director of a clinic for the uninsured, I see hundreds of hard-working Americans every month who are living without health insurance. Most of them have worked all their lives and some hold two jobs, yet they cannot access the same level of healthcare services as those of you who make the laws we live by. This is unconscionable in a society that defines itself as moral and ridiculous to the developed nations of the world that we believe to be inferior to ours. It is time to wake up!!! Please do the RIGHT thing and support HR 676.
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| Ron Chew | IL |
Insurance companies and the Blues need to be out of the picture so that most of every dollar goes for health care not towards determining who to insure or the validity of claims. The administration of the present insurance system is killing many of us.
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| Ed Bender | NY |
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| elizabeth winther | CO |
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| Tracy Kaplowitz | NY |
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| Leah R. Karpen | NC |
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| Oregon Hunter | FL |
I hear heartbreaking stories everyday from patients who are unable to access the health care system due to inability to find insurance coverage. It is time to establish a universal health care system available to all Americans.
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| Robert Alpert | MI |
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| Claudia Chaufan | CA |
When will we stop these endless 'controversies' and false debates? When will we realize that treating medical care like fancy shoes that we should comparison shop for and which unless we feel the cost we will consume mindlessly is nonsense? How long shall we keep on trying to reinvent the wheel? All industrialized nations do it. Why not we?
Please support HR676, the only universal proposal that controls costs effectively, can deliver health care efficiently, at the same time that it treats it as a social right, as it should be.
Respectfully,
Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD
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| Cindy Morris | TX |
I am a Social Worker and where I work I see at least a humdred people a month that have no insurance with major medical problems. They come to us to get help with paying for a doctor and prescriptions. I work in a very small rural town so I can imagine what it is like in a big city. We don't have the resources to help these people with what they need--Health Insurance! They get desperate and go to the emergency room that they can not pay for which puts a drain on everyone. I myself have a serious illness and have to work at a very low paying job just for the insurance. After I pay for rediculously high gasoline just to get to my job I have very little money left to pay my co-pays and prescriptions. I work totally for the insurance. Very few employers offer insurance so what choices do people have? This country needs a Health Plan that will cover all citizens and it is needed now and not years from now. I will be watching how my government listens to the people and will vote accordingly. If enough people vote then the people will get the right people in office. I am asking, no begging, for you to please pass HR 676 so that more people will be able to get the health care that they need and deserve
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| cheryl cameron | SD |
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| Marilyn Milkman | CA |
I am a practicing physician and I endorse this plan for universal health coverage. It is a moral outrage that all Americans do not have access to health car.
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| Paul A Smith | CO |
This petition makes more sense than our health care "system"!
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| Anna Shenk | MA |
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| Sharon Damkaer | WA |
It is absolutely shameful that our country doesn't have universal health care for its people. This should be a legislative priority!
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| Kiwibob Glanzman | WA |
With a degree in Architecture and working as a Medical/Dental Space Planner, this country is over 200 years behind in Healthcare! Isn't it time for us to catch up with the real world and pass HR676?
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| Beatrice Kovasznay | NY |
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| Linda Bullock | PA |
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| eileen goldman | OH |
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| Thomas J Rowan | NY |
I am a hospital chaplain. Today I met an 85 year old patient in a wheelchair with her three siblings outside in the hallway. They were waiting for her to go to a rehab center so she can walk. Why walk? They told me that they investigated home care and could not pay the $2000.00 a month fee. So Eleanor, who only wants to go home, probably to die, is off to rehab. I hope and pray that she gets her wish. The economics of healthcare is in dire need of real reform.
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| Ashley T. | MS |
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| Larry W. | MS |
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| Joan Dubay | KY |
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| John Lapham | MA |
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| Steven L Cochran, M.D. | OH |
We simply cannot afford to have 40% of our population going without health insurance- why would we want to? But we simply cannot afford to continue using the health insurance companies. They have shown absolutely no restraint in their greed. Medicare for all is simple, fair, efficient, and affordable.
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| justin dueno | |
we want healthcare
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| David Hopkins | MA |
As a Massachusetts resident, I am appalled by the fact that more, not fewer, dollars will be flowing into the greedy coffers of the health insurance industry - by force.
Please don't insult our intelligence by calling it 'universal'. It's not universal by any stretch of the imagination as long as the health insurance industry is in the driver's seat!
I won't surrender any of my hard earned dollars to this voracious industry. Furthermore, I won't contribute to any 'health plan' with selfsame dollars until I know for sure that the profiteers have removed themselves from the helm of the sinking ship of their own making.
In other words, no HR 676, No Dollars From Me!
Now you can take THAT to the bank, PILGRIM!
Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins
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| David Lotto | MA |
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| Donna Mummery | NY |
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| Kathryn Vestal | WA |
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| James T. Robinson | GA |
Our current healthcare is nothing but a bunch our get rich drug corporations, insurance clowns, and flunky politicians that all of which worship that all mighty dollar$$$.
It's time to say no to our current system.
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| Shel Silver | IL |
Single-Payer Medical Care would protect the citizenry; our current wars and tax giveaways endanger us. Give us Health, not death for our taxes.
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| Lydia Carollo | MA |
Working in health care, I see many people who delay care due to lack of insurance and have serious health problems. Insurance needs to cover the basics for all, but also have people have a stake in doing their best to maintain and improve their health-and not expect everything to be paid for without effort or cost to them somehow.
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| Peter Gale | NY |
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| David L Stermer | PA |
We need a good health care system in this country.We should have the same type of coverage that our goverment gave themselves at our expense,our goverment has no problem taking our good paying jobs & giving them to China & leaving us with low paying jobs, no benfits, no health care,our President & those that are opposed to us having health care should not have it themselves,then we could see what would happen.
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| William Todd | NH |
My new House Representative, Carol Shea-Porter, campaigned on a 'Medicare for all' platform, but for some reason has not yet co-sponsored H.R.676. I have contacted her office multiple times urging her to (and most recently asking why she apparently felt unable to), but without response - in marked contrast to her predecessor and our two current Senators, who invariably responded promptly to contacts from constituents.
My family is fortunate: we still have insurance coverage, though (as with so many others) can't be certain that this will always be the case. But we feel that in a country with the resources that ours has there is no excuse whatsoever for failing to provide guaranteed reasonable levels of health care for *all* - not just as a 'right', but because it makes hard-nosed economic sense (business suffers the costs of health-care inefficiencies as well, and variations in employer support for health care significantly reduce the liquidity of the labor market).
We'd be willing to put our tax money behind this belief if necessary; the fact that this could be accomplished *without* raising net expenditure on the system is icing on the cake. Those who have some specific fault to find with H.R.676 as it stands should stop sitting on the sidelines and work with its current proponents to achieve something they can all support: substantive progress on this issue is already long overdue.
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| Linda Lillow | NM |
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| Dan McGuire | VA |
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| Richard W. Firth | VA |
There is no excuse for 18,000 Americans to die each year because they can't afford health care or insurance. I challenge pro-lifers to medidate on that fact before going against this plan.
I have Medicare and Part D with a supplemental plan which pays just about everything so I know it works and would be a blessing for you as well.
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| Beth Rockwell | PA |
As a Medicare beneficiary, I get very good health care. Why shouldn't every American have the same coverage?
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| K. Roark | CA |
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| William Monroe | NY |
It is a crime that so many people in the USA have no health insurance at all or health insurance that is of such low quality that it covers very little. I am tired of supporting insurance companies that don't want to pay claims and continue to reduce coverage as prices escalate. It's time to stop spending money on endless war and put our tax dollars into comprehensive health care for all. William Monroe
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| Shirley Jacobson | WA |
I am a retired RN that worked over 40 years in the healthcare system. Based on my experience I know that the System needs changing. We have a sick care system not a healthcare system and if we could change that people would be a whole lot healthier and productive and we would save a lot of money for other important issues. The first step is universal single payer health care. Take the profit out of healthcare as all the other leading industrial nations have done. That will force us to change the way we deliver care and make it more efficient and economical
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| marianne shouse | KS |
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| Tara Miller | CO |
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| Janet Lofgren | NY |
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| Linda Schupp | KS |
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| Linda Mahan | CO |
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| Robert Engel, Jr | NY |
By not insuring our population and giving them quality health insurance, we are hurting ourselves. Universal healthcare means a healthier population, a more affluent society, and more jobs for Americans. It also means all Americans can have a better life and well being without suffering from their ailments due to lack of insurance. Do the right thing and make it happen, Universal Healthcare for All!
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| Jan Sherburn | NC |
It's time we stop spending money on needless wars and time we take care of our citizens.
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| Sandy Smith-Nonini | NC |
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| Kathleen Swetkis | OH |
How can it be that people who can't afford insurance are expected to pay the complete bill if they are hurt and need emergency care or hospitalization? If hospitals/emergency centers want to recover any money, they should have reasonable costs so that those uninsured people can afford to eventually make payments to cover their bills and that cost doesn't need to be tacked on to all health care insurance.
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| jesus mangual | NY |
As a war veteran i believe that if the united states of America can spend billions of dollars on uneccessary battles than consider spending billions on the best natural resource, the citizens of this country. Many workers and their families have no health coverage. Many spend years working and when they retire they get shortchanged. You spend your life working to help your country grow and then at the end of your tour you get the boot.
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| NANA SOUL | NY |
The government is supposed to represent the people. We pay taxes so that our country can run and our government can steward as we see fit. The majority of United States citizens want national healthcare. What is taking our government so long to acknowledge the needs and wants of the populace? At some point, capitalism and greed have to make way for the common good. Only then can we proudly call ourselves a democracy.
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| dorothy dale | WA |
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| Genevieve O'Hara | MO |
It is way past time to reform the health care system in the USA. All people should have access to health care, at least as good as Medicare, which does seem to work.
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| Colin Donoghue | NM |
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| Joel Rosenblum | PA |
I know the HMO biz is great at lobbying, but even if all you care about is the corporatocracy, note should be taken that companies are finding it cheaper to move their facilities to Canada rather than pay the exorbitant costs of employee healthcare. Those are the good companies, of course, that offer health benefits. Not only is our current policy inhuman, it is not facilitating international competitiveness.
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| Michael Green | NY |
It is time for the US to join the civilized world. Health care for all now!
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| Richard Pelz | WA |
We need universal public health insurance like Medicare. Private health insurance has failed us. We don't need to put up with all of its drawbacks any more.
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| Brian Stagno | PA |
As a hospital based physical therapist, i have to constantly spend time justifying my recommendations to private insurers. Extending length of stays, issuing durable medical equipment, and recommending long term care placement are all an important part of my job. The denials I receive and appeal are stupifying -a patient with a new transtibial amputation was denied a wheelchair - before he was even ready to measure for a prosthesis, let alone show safety walking with it. For everyone to receive equitable care, and for me to get back to doing more patient care - those are my goals. HR 676 would help accomplish both of those goals.
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| Linda Haenichen | NY |
I am extremely concerned about the health care system in New York State. In particular, the new cuts that Gov. Spitzer is proposing for our state. These will add an additional burden to an already burdened system.
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| Karen Keating-Secular | NY |
This country needs single payer Universal Healthcare NOW. It's a disgrace that we don't have it already. We used to lead the world--now we lag behind and destroy the world. Pathetic.
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| FRED NGUYEN | NE |
IT IS TIME TO HAVE UNIVERSAL COVERAGE, SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM AND ELEIMINATE GREED FROM PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND INSURANCE COMPANIES
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| patricia robles | NY |
It would be God sent to have affordable health insurance, currently my family and I have none.
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| Jacob Schaefer | IA |
I am a 22 year leukemia survivor. I have been active in the cancer community for years, and know there are thousands of Americans who are dying just because they do not have access to treatments that already exist!
I also have a brother who received a liver transplant. One of the first questions the hospital asked us before he was out on the transplant list was do you have insurance. How is one life more valuable than the other because one is insured and the other isn't?
Our country is one of the greatest in the world. It is only appropriate for our citizens to have the ability to lead full and healthy lives.
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| Burton Steck | IL |
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| Lydia Okumura | NY |
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| Jan Weaver | TX |
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| Bernie Fetterly | NY |
We are working on getting a single-payer resolution passed in every county in New York. During our walk across New York we met several people who will help us do so. Where we need help is to get every congressperson signed on to HR676 especially the New Congresspersons Arcuri, Hall, and Gillibrand. They surround Maurice Hinchey's district and we are working in that area now. What would also really help would be to get Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer supporting HR 676 and introducing a similar bill in the Senate. This is New York Talking to their US Senators, Congresspersons, and Governor. Yes Gov. this means you. Support HR 676 New York to help promote the bills and resolutions in the State. A6576 and S3459 (may have new numbers now. We also need Schumer, Clinton, Hinchey, Arcuri, Hall,and Gillibrand to support Eric Massa in the 29th who is running for US congress in 2008. Eric Massa strongly supports hr 676. Rebecca and I will devote a lot of out time in the 29th, but could really use your help.
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| robert scardapane | NJ |
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| Karen Epler | WA |
I am married to a family practice physician. We have a small group private insurance plan with an individual and family deductable of $5400. We pay $7200 a year in premiums. Practically this means we have no health or pharmacy insurance unless we have a catistrophic event while the insurace company collects its $7200 a year for providing no service. Because of this situation, no member of our family saw their doctor last year.
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| Shirley Novak | NY |
Healthcare for ALL NOW is LONG OVERDUE! Get it done NOW!
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| Harold Cohen | PA |
Single Payer is the only way to make health care affordable .
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| Joan Ferrante | NY |
It is shameful that a country as rich as ours does not provide full health care to all its people. We must have a single-payer national system. Other developed countries can do it. Why can't we?
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| Roger Finch | SC |
I'm a 55 year old white male living in the south. I work for a non-profit and do not have healthcare. It's funny how non-profits can't offer their employees healthcare because it would break their back. I do get $2000 a year to buy it myself but I only qualify for a state pool that would cost me way over $1000 a month without co-pays or drug benefits and a $5000 deductible which I can't afford.
I've been surveying small businesses in upstate South Carolina and find about 80% of those with less than 10 employees can't stay in business if they offer their employees healthcare. What's alarming is that 50 % of those survey are private physican offices!
Let's do the right thing and support H676 and start the ball rolling for healthcare for ALL!
Roger Finch, 864-338-1666
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| Alice Woldt | WA |
Get the insurance business out of the business of my health. Shouldn't good health be a right not a privilege?
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| Barbara Daniel | IN |
As a fairly recent cancer survivor, I am aware how lucky I have been to have health insurance. Life and death shouldn't rest on that chance.
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| kate ryan | NY |
We definitely need a single payer healthcare system - NOW!
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| Maureen Garvey | NE |
This is an idea that is long past due. It is ridiculous that the United States should have such a sorry excuse for a health care system. We should be able to take the best of our model, and the best of the European and Canadian models, and create the best health care system the world has ever seen. We put a man on the moon-we can do this!
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| Chris Covert-Bowlds, MD | WA |
46 million Americans without health coverage should be a crime; 18,000 dying prematurely for lack of health coverage a year! I see people in a low-income clinic every day, suffering for lack of health coverage. It's an outrage, and we can provide affordable health coverage for all Americans, while controlling costs and the excessive profits and diversion of health care money to insurance and pharmaceutical companies, with a national single-payer plan, "everybody in, nobody out!" People are dying for it every day!
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| Kamrul Ahsan | NY |
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| Robert Isman | CA |
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| Miranda Sheffield | CA |
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| brenda stillman | NC |
Please pass HR676.
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| brenda stillman | NC |
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| Cathy Rowan | NY |
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| Carl Arnold | NY |
Universal, single-payer healthcare is long overdue for the US population.
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| Sarah Weinberg | WA |
Alone among the developed nations of the world, the top 10 U.S. for-profit HMOs made $10.8 billion profit in 2005. That's enough money to provide quality health coverage to at least 2 million of the uninsured. No other developed nation has any significant number of uninsured citizens.
What good is a nation that fails to provide basic health coverage to all its citizens? We in the U.S. should be hanging our heads in shame, led by those who took home profits at the expense of the misery of the uninsured.
Please support HR 676. It's the right thing to do.
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| Marla Muxen | SD |
In this rural area, access to providers is limited, especially in mental health care and for specialists, such as rheumatologists and gastroentologists. In regard to mental health, most insurance providers will reimburse only those with the highest level of licensure - e.g. the most expensive providers, limiting access even more. People with various forms of state funding are even further restricted to providers who will accept the lower payment. This is absolutely the most expensive way to fund care...My daughter, who was a special needs adoption, cannot see the practitioner I would choose because he is one of the few who will bill the state and his waiting list is about six months into the future. Meanwhile, we risk her getting worse or needing more intensive care by the time we can begin.
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| Tibor Weinreb | NY |
Single payer Universal Health Care is the best
plan of all the proposals available in every
way.
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| Wm. Ferguson Reid | VA |
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| Nick Manning | CO |
As a global hegemon and potentional "moral" leader in todays globalized world it is about time we stepped up to domestic issues by enabling our citizens to lead healthy, productive lives free from fear of disease and medical quagmires.
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| DAVID PAVLICK | OH |
There are only three types of people in the USA. The uninsured, the underinsred, and the un sure. Those of us who currently have insurance are only one serious illness, one job loss, one corporate change away from losing our health insurance. I walked 600 miles around Ohio last year in support of the Health Care For All Ohioans act, because I beleive national health care will follow the actions of States. Information can be found at SPANOHIO.ORG
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| Fred Sokolow | CA |
Every other non-third world country has a good single payer health plan, why can't we?
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| Gordon Gerbitz | FL |
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| William Linford | CA |
Get the Health Insurance Companies out of the game and we can all have better health care than the highest paying insureds now get. And it will cost less money than we are now paying. Individuals, employers and governments at all levels should pay for an expanded medicare with greatly expanded benefits. It will cost less than we now pay and can be managed so as to keep costs from growing so rapidly.
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| George Bozeman | NH |
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| Mimi Kennedy | CA |
A strong nation is not determined by military destructive power. It is determined by its people's mental and physical health. We have done so much to destroy this, with environmental poison and toxic food, and special interests have denied the science. Let us turn to caring for each other now, and invest our money in that mutual endeavor and demand that our medical corporations engage with us to truly serve the public health, not just private health; that way lies suffering, civil unrest and extinction.
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| Mariel wallace | OH |
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| Kathleen Ince | NY |
I Work as a substitute teacher for the city of New York. We have no medical insurance. It is a disgrace on our union that they don't care what and how we get medical help. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this.
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| Roberta Mantooth | WA |
We need a program that does not depend on a person's employment, that emphasizes wellness, and that spreads the costs of people with catastrophic situations out over the full population.
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| gloria korecki | NY |
we are hearing tody of Billios being sent to finance the Iraqi war.yet we have a country that says universal health care for all is not poosible. The administrarion should be ashamed of ignoring US citizens.
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| Kathy Knight | NY |
I'm tired of paying more and more for health care benefits and receiving less and less coverage! My husband had a kidney transplant in 2000. He had a simple hernia repair in 2006. The hernia repair cost almost as much as the transplant! Congress, when are you going to realize that our current system is broken beyond repair! Please Fix It!
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| Elizabeth Kinney | CO |
As an emergency room physician, I see people coem to the ER routinely who have watied too long becasue they have no insurance. They suffer needlessly and we ALL pay more in the end
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| James Baldridge | MD |
I and others have been working for over a decade for a Maryland State plan similar to HR 676. Because people and their legislators are starting to recognize that the present healthcare crisis may soon be a national disaster. We have to convince them that a single-payer solution is the only solution and it will cost less than what we do now.
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| Phyllis Solomon | CA |
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| Sandra Mays | WA |
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| Charles Mays | WA |
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| Byron Tucker, M.D. | FL |
The dollars that are actually spent don't account for the untold time the current non-system causes to be wasted by physicians, their staff and family members in attempts to get people care
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| Barry Abel | NM |
Serious questions have been raised about the funding of social security/medicare/medicaid and global warming is already having significant effects that will increase in the years ahead. The combination of threats makes it imperative that our government act NOW to establish a national healthcare system that provides care for everyone. The millions who cannot afford health insurance today will see their numbers swelled overwhelmingly should the economy suffer because of the multiple threats already stressing it. The time to move to guarantee the health of the American people is now. Right now. I support passage of this measure.
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| Martha Rich | AK |
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| Virginia Druhe | MO |
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| Michael Perez | CA |
Whenever healthcare is discussed, we always seem to worry about the insured and the uninsured. Why not just eliminate the insurance middle person. There should be healthcare that is available to every American. We can pay for it in taxes. We already pay for it in insurance premiums, why not just pay taxes and be taken care of. I have the same beliefs Quoted by:David Tillyer in NY
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| Lounette Templeton | WA |
I have good health insurance -- Medicare. Why am I more deserving than the 47 million uninsured? And why are my leaders refusing to buck market-based insurance that controls the kind of healthcare the rest of Americans receive?
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| Theresa Kelly | NY |
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| Anthony DeAngelis | MN |
Americans deserve health care for all, regardless of income status.
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| carolyn apel | WA |
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| Jackie Smith | PA |
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| David Tillyer | NY |
Whenever healthcare is discussed, we always seem to worry about the insured and the uninsured. Why not just eliminate the insurance middle person. There should be healthcare that is available to every American. We can pay for it in taxes. We already pay for it in insurance premiums, why not just pay taxes and be taken care of.
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| judith land | MI |
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| Becky French | MD |
The cost of health insurance is breaking a lot of people in this country, and we don't get as effective care as people in Europe and Canada do. HR.676 is the best solution to this that is currently available. Please make this possible.
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| David Black, MD | TX |
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| Jonathan Smith | NY |
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| Kay Warren | OR |
I, especially, need "complementary" & integrated
health care. Drug & cut doesn't help. I've struggled since l968 to heal from a skull fracture
& am still not functional.
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| Bob and Joy Johnson | MN |
The richest country in the world and we don't have universal healthcare is a shame. Other industrialized countries do at less the cost of the US.
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| Dave Lacey | AK |
Healthcare for all now.
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| Samuel & Muriel Kirschner | FL |
We are the only industrialized nation on earth that does not have universal health care for its people ! FOR SHAME ! Bring us into the 21st century now !
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| Diane Blair | CA |
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| Kevin D Cummings | NY |
I ask that you would do what is right for the health and well being of the United States and its citizens. HR-676 is a just bill that should be passed!
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| Jim Olszowka | IL |
Why should citizens of this country have no helath care while citizens of third world countries have guaranteed health care?
I lost my job after working many years and therefore lost my health care insurance coverage. I could not buy insurance.
My family and I should have been given health care coverage just as members of Congress are given health care coverage when they lose their job.
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| Edie Feiste | IL |
Health care for all citizens should be a right and not a privilege. Because it can be a matter of life or death, we should all have equal access to the best health care possible.
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| Vivian Schattz | PA |
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| william toll | OR |
While Congress appropriates billions each day for a war in Iraq whose origins are shrouded in lies and which costs our country in blood, money, and international contempt every day, Congress has yet to create a public health care system that would guarantee every citizen and resident decent, standardized medical treatment and generic drugs. Every civilized country has such a system, however imperfect each of those systems may be. The drug lobby and the HMO lobby seem to have the majority in Congress in a campaign contribution noose, from which the public --especially our low income families-- is struggling to escape. Why are members of Congress so fearful of the military lobby that they have no problem voting billions for death, and so fearful of the drug companies that they won't even hold hearings whose outcome --a real public health system-- will prolong life?
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| Randall Smith | CA |
Many of my friends are being devastated by the health insurance situation in this country, staying in dead-end jobs for the sake of the (usually meager) health benefits, or postponing critical health care becasue they are uninsured or their insurer won't pay for it.
If members of Congress had no health insurance for themselves and their families, how long would they allow the situation to last? They would pass the needed legislation within hours! The fact is, however, members of Congress have *great* taxpayer-provided health insurance for the rest of their lives, so it appears they're perfectly happy to screw the rest of us. This is a shameful disgrace for members of all parties.
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| bonnie Shapiro | NJ |
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| Lenny Cavallaro | MA |
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| Greta Zeit | CA |
Healthcare is a Right, Not a Privilege!
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| Debera Hanrahan | WA |
It is time to take the profit out of health care.
It is time to support our doctors and not put the burdan of collecting from insurance companies that don't want to pay for services because it cuts into their profits. We are paying higher premiums and getting less every year so that the insurance companies make higher profits.
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| Kamal Muilenburg | CA |
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| Raymond Torres | PA |
support Bill 676
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| Brenda Wood | CA |
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| Mike Deren Jr. | FL |
We need healthcare for all not just the rich and powerful!
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| Susan Welch | TX |
I am a Nurse Practitioner at a Dialysis Facility. Many of my patients are on Dialysis because they lacked adequate Health Insurance and medication coverage. Now they do have Medicare to cover the cost of their very expensive dialysis treatments. How much cheaper it would have been to prevent their kidney failure in the first place!
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| Joseph E. Powell | OH |
To The Taxpayers:
The population is not being served by the Private Health Care Industry.
Our elected officials need to provide Public Health Care now.
Our elected officials are mis-appropriating our tax money.
Of 1st concern is the overall health of our population.
The Private Health Care (so called) System does not work.
The Private Health Care money being spent by the population is going into the pockets of the insurance companies and other medical professional services and not toward providing adequate Health Care to the people who are paying the bill / insurance premiums.
The Insurance Companies will tell you that they are paying the bills. Hogwash to that since the money they pay the bills with is from the money paid to them in premiums.
From the Insurance Companies' perspective, it makes good business sense to deny or delay paying money to Health Care Providers for Health Care Recipients.
High deductibles also make good business sense to the Insurance Companies.
It looks to me like the viewpoint of the insurance companies is that this racket is their own private gold mine and to hell with providing adequate services to the premium payers.
Private Health Care Insurance (therefore Health Care itself) is unaffordable to vast numbers of the population. We are all, every one of us, worse off for it.
This is wrong and needs to change now.
Make Noise! Write to your congressman! Hurry!
Make our government listen to us or throw all of the bastards out on the street - without benefits - without health insurance - make it unavailable to them.
Joseph E. Powell,
J. E. Powell Technical Services Company, Inc.
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| Nelson Carrasquillo | NJ |
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| Luella Greene | MN |
Health care is a basic need. We are the world's richest and most powerful country. We can do it-provide health care for all or we can provide for the wealthiest to become even more wealthy-e.g. the insurance companies.
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| Gwen Snyder | NJ |
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| Daniel Jordan | PA |
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| Rachelle Kivanoski | NY |
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| Barbara Agenbroad | NM |
I am a retired federal employee with good health insurance. However, I still support HR 676. It is time that all citizens have access to good health care. My future vote will go only to legislators and other candidates who have the courage to change our health care system from a market-driven system that enriches insurance companies to a system that ensures health care to everyone.
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| Susan Meredith | CT |
I am a labor arbitrator who tries to make equitable decisions about collective bargaining agreements. The cost of health care has become a major impediment to providing low cost goods and services to the public while paying a living wage to workers. The cost of health care dramatically distorts the issues involved in labor relations. Both management and labor must spend more time and money on a largely futile effort to contain health care costs - time which should be spent providing the best possible goods and services.
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| Jane Murphy | NJ |
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| David Blanchard | NY |
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| Gerald Peterson | IN |
At United Way of Allen County we see the stress and barriers many people experience because of inadequate healthcare coverage. The extreme waste and obscene profits in our current healthcare system are not sustainable. I support HR-676 and urge you to vote in favor of it.
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| Bruce Gagnon | ME |
Health care not $8.5 billion a month for the occupation of Iraq
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| Don White | WA |
The true solution to this country's medical crisis is NOT to pay for insurance for everyone. The solution is to pay for health care for everyone. The difference is cutting out the middleman and cutting out the labor cost of dealing with the middleman's beuraucracy. I strongly protest spending public money in the name of health care when a good portion of that money would end up supporting an insurance company's corporate excesses.
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| jack kashinsky | NY |
Why are we the only major industrialized country in the world without what HR 607 proposes?
Why do American's have to go to Canada for their medication? And why are you continuing to allow the Special Intrest Lobbies to have their way, whch is contrary to the needs of your constituents?
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| Anne Courtright | CO |
The only way to get comprehensive, qualilty, affordable health care is to get away from the use of insurance companies with their high administrative and marketing costs and extravagant profits. WE NEED A NATIONAL TAX SUPPORTED SINGLE PAYER HEALTH PLAN. WE NEED HB 676.
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| Giovanna Lepore | NY |
Universal single-payer Health care insurance is the decent thing to do for one another not endless warfare!
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| Mark Milano | NY |
We must stop the obscene price-gouging of the pharmaceutical industry! It's essential to have drug price controls if we are ever to control healthcare costs in the U.S.
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| James Hess | CA |
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| Michael Funke | OR |
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| Richard Austin | WA |
Bargaining over continued health care is more often than not contentious.
There is a solution. It is HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act.
Unions that find it necessary to take economic action in order to maintain health care coverage do so as a course of last resort. Workers suffer, industry suffers, and the economy suffers. And what are they doing? They are doing nothing more than demanding life-saving medical care.
It is both immoral and disgraceful that 47 million people cannot access needed health care. It is both immoral and disgraceful that our nation's health care system has driven working families into deep debt, including bankruptcy.
Congress had better get busy. There is a tipping point and it is rapidly approaching. Workers are more and more united on the need to enact universal, affordable, accessible, comprehensive health care.
Now it is time for Congress to run and catch up with its constituency. Support for health care for everyone is a pre-condition for my vote in the 2008 elections!
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| Emily Oster | NJ |
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| Kitty Miller | NJ |
I am a wife,mother and registered nurse emplyed as a school nurse in Camden, NJ, the poorest city in the nation.It is a national disgrace that in the United States, one of the wealthiest countries on earth, there are over 46 million uninsured and underinsured citizens, including most of the working poor families I serve and my own children, three hardworking young adults who are students in graduate school . They are unable to be covered under my husband and my health insutrance poilicies, without us paying outrageously high premiims and are unable to afford the high premiums that any quality health insurance would provide for them. Health care is a basic human right,not a commodity and it is long overdue that it be given the highest prority on any legislative agenda. Please do not be influenced by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries but listen to your constituents and support H.R. 676
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| Eugene Hamond | NY |
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| Jon Morgan | IN |
please fix the health care in this country asap
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| Ralph Anderson | UT |
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| Alice Bell | PA |
I work with substance users and hear stories all the time of people who use heroin for pain because they don't have health insurance and can't get prescribed pain medication!! This makes no sense. People who don't have health care end up waiting until problems are extremely serious and then go to the Emergency Room. This is so much more expensive for us as a society than giving people access to good preventative health care and primary care medical attention. Someone who I know, who works full time but has no health insurance, recently developed a hernia. Although he is in quite a lot of pain, he was told that because the surgery was not emergent, he would have to pay up front, several thousand dollars. So, he will basically have to try to work to save this money, or borrow it from some high interest lender. This is not way to run a healthcare system. Health Care should be a right, not a privilege.
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| Minister Jim Fripp | MA |
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| Eve Lyman | MA |
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| Odoch Hawkins | AZ |
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| William McAllister | NY |
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| Karl Kay | OH |
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| Jeffrey Barrett | VT |
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| Jeffrey Barrett | VT |
It's about time this country got with the program. The USA should be #1 NOT #38 in Health.
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| Marcus Wagner | PA |
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| s fixler | OH |
us healthcare? prescription drugs?
i was in an accident at no fault of my own - the guilty party was underinsured - and i wound up paying the remainder of my hospital bill $25,000.
I am still working off that debt. None of the related conditions I am experiencing now (years later) are covered by my insurance any more. Short of denying insurance renewal altogether, my insurance simply proposed a higher deductible. At my current $5000 annual deductible, I cannot afford any preventative or health maintenance measures - so I am just waiting for a health catastrophy to happen at which point, it will be almost pointless to have catastrophic insurance.
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| Thomas Wagner | PA |
Healthcare for all now...it is a right not a priviledge.
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| Jed Dodd | PA |
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| Bruce Leier | MN |
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| Colleen Wagner | PA |
ALL AMERICANS NEED THE SAME HEALTHCARE WE PAY TO HAVE OUR GOVERNMENT HAVE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!It is completely outrageous what is going on in healthcare. Companies are making MILLIONS. I know...my sister worked for one of them. And people are not getting covered. I have cystic fibrosis and only have 27% lung function left. I can not quit work as I am worried about benefits and the cost of the drugs I need. I would not be covered for two years after going on disability. What country allows this to happen to their citizens. I pay taxes, I deserve to not have tow worry about my death while waiting for medicare. Once I did get medicare I probably could not afford that either because of the high cost of the drugs. WE NEED ACTION NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Americans please wake up...until this happens to you I imagine it is no big deal..but let me tell you...your day is coming. Pretty soon no one will be able to afford health care.
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| Heloise Rathbone | NY |
I know so many people without insurance. My daughter has been under my health insurance for many years but I am retiring and going on Medicare and my duaghter needs to go on Medicaid. However, I know many doctors don't take Medicaid patients and I don't want her to have to change the doctors who have known her so long. We need Health Care NOW!! I am praying that we will pass R676 very soon.
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| Eddie Konczal | NJ |
Please recall that "A Healthcare System that Works for Everyone" was part of your 6-point agenda for the 2006 election. Please keep your promise to make health care affordable for all Americans.
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| Ron Moss | NY |
It is time.
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| Susan Susman | NY |
Let's cut out the middleman and eliminate profit as an element in health care.
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| Gerald Hunt | CA |
In spite of having insulin dependent diabetes for over 35 years, I have maintained my physical condition equivalent to at least 50% of healthy people my age. I have had contact with non-value added private health insurance companies during many of those years and they only obstructed, not facilitated care.
I purchased health care benefits for company staff as part of my professional accounting duties and spent a great deal of my time resolving claim disputes for employees, plus I was astonished at the actuarial rates which were being calculated for the costs of those benefits. Actuarial premiums rates are based more on company risk avoidance then on population risk probability which is why there are so many people (17% of our population) without access to affordable health care insurance policies. That DOES NOT count the people who have health insurance policies that will not cover their actual health care needs, more commonly known as the uncounted, underinsured population.
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| Vincent Roveto | CA |
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| Wendy Ebersberger | VA |
It is not the job of Congress to support the insurance industry - no matter how large its campaign donations may be.
Stop forcing people to gamble with their money when they pay premiums with no guarantee of coverage or with their health when they go without insurance.
How do you sleep knowing that those who pay for your guaranteed coverage can't similarly protect their own families??
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| Farheen Qurashi | TX |
As a medical student that sees patients everyday go without medication or healthcare because they have no insurance and can't afford out-of-pocket, or come to the emergency room with a cold that got out of hand because they have no primary care physician, I need to see HR 676 come into action. No longer can we sit around and watch our own citizens be forgotten and mistreated in the current system. Something needs to change, and as a medical student who pledged to "help people," HR 676 is a bright light in this dark world of poverty and disease. As a future physician, I support HR 676.
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| Charles Andrews | |
Equal Care for All!
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| Ana Dziengel | CA |
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| Katharine Shaw | PA |
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| karl hatten sr | MS |
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| Mary Anne Nesbit | NJ |
We, the citizens of the USA, should be outraged and ashamed of our healthcare (not!) system where millions go without and the almighty dollar is all that is important.
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| Neill Dumont | VA |
I believe that healthcare is a right. There should be no one in the U.S. who doesn't have access to the best possible medical care. And how long will the U.S. be willing to pay the most in medical costs per capita with medical care well below that of other countries? Single payer health care now!!
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| Oliver and Mary Warren | CA |
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| Iona Kusmiak | CA |
Anything less than single-payer is a farce. If it leaves the insurance companies still in charge,
WE DON'T WANT IT!
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| Marnie Thompson | NC |
There is nothing so different about us USers that we cannot operate an effective single payer, comprehensive health care system, as has been done successfully in numerous other countries.
I know some people think we will not get good health care if we adopt this kind of a system, but we are not getting good health care now! For instance, my husband and I were recently uninsured during a period between jobs. During that time, we could not go to the doctor when we got sick -- even if we were willing to pay cash on the barrelhead. The reason? A visit to the doctor would have established any illness as a pre-existing condition, one that our next insurer would not pay for! The result -- I limped around on torn up cartilage for several months, probably making my knee worse in the long run. That's not good health care!
This story is not any where near as serious as the hundreds of thousands of heartbreaking stories where people die or live with crippling conditions, simply because they cannot afford health insurance or health care. On top of that, even when you can afford health insurance, it's no guarantee that your plan will cover you when the chips are down. The profit motive leads insurers to look for reasons to deny coverage. There is no room for profit in something as fundamental as health care.
Let's end this madness, and do what other intelligent developed nations do - move to a single payer universal health care system! Support HR 676!
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| Joseph Klutz | PA |
I am a physician and I support a national health insurance plan for my patients who are paying higher and higher premiums and getting less while the corporate executives of health insurance plans wallow in profits, excessive salaries and benefits.
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| Rosemary Barbera | PA |
Not only is health care a human right that even many third world countries provide for inhabitants, it is a basic human dignity.
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| Patricia A. Jaworski | TN |
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| Robert Montes | TX |
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| Doris Heroff | IL |
With almost half the nation without adequate health care, and most of those our young people, how can we delay longer?
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| Wesley Stromberg | NY |
I am a senior citizen on a limited income and with multiple physical problems as the body succumbs to aging. I am apalled that Medicare does not cover dental, foot care, hearing problems and even limits medicare coverage of items such as refraction by the eye doctor and urinalysis by the gynicologist. What is going on? We need a truly universal coverage as outlined by Kusinich and Conyers, not the inadequate proposals of the other presidential candidates. Are they afraid of the powerful insurance companies which stand to gain billions of dollars from our medicare allottments?
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| Jo Dibert-Fitko | MI |
National Health Insurance should be a MUST for everyone! As soneone who has to buy health insurance and is also diagnosed with a pre-existing medical condition, I have found it extremely expensive...and it offers minimal coverage! The past two years I have had a rare eye conditon and have had to have extensive medical care..and we had to take out a loan to cover the expenses. As small business owners, we are also unable to provide coverage to our employees. It is time for all of you in Washington to approve National Health Insurance. YOU are covered with it..why do you deny it to the rest of us ?It is indeed the largest medical, social and economic concern in this country. I have contacted all my Senators and Congressman and NONE of you have endorsed it or responded to my query, except to mention Medicare. Start listening to and representing your constituents!\Thank you.
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| James Young | PA |
Dismiss the obfuscations, please, and remove the insurance industry from health care decision-making procedures.
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| Dennis Burton | NY |
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| Marjorie Power | VT |
The way this country pays for health care creates all manner of distortions our economy and for the quality of health care provided.
Employers who offer health insurance have to compete with the lower costs of those who do not. Workers are unable to change jobs or pursue careers they really want because of fear of losing their health insurance. Health care providers cannot practice to the highest standards because of the pressures of insurance companies to do less: less preventive care, less experimental care.
What other country has billboards advertising hospital by-pass surgery? What other country has to have laws to prevent the "dumping" of women in labor and emergency cases? What other country pays so much and gets such poor outcomes for its expenditures?
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| Louis Guida | NY |
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| Daniel Verinder | MA |
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| Kermit Moore | TN |
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| Priscilla Dianne Timmerman | CA |
I have had breast cancer 3 times (once without medical insurance). I was more distressed about how we were going to pay the bills than about having the disease. I remember vividly the first day I had chemotherapy (1988), the nurse gave my husband a perscription for a medication to prevent mouth sores (which the chemo would produce). He came back and said he had paid $175 for it. I was very upset because that was a huge amount of money to us at that time. I would need that perscription six times in six months and all the stress about the money did me no good in my recovery. Health care is a right not a priviledge.
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| scott kirk | VT |
we are seeing the destruction of the middle class in america because of health care costs...they are the backbone of america...
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| William Ridenour | IL |
My father was born in poverty on a small Ozark farm. He died in poverty too, not because of his own laziness or waste or mismanagement. He had been a successful commercial artist with 20 employees. No, he died in poverty because he was a hard worker and always paid his bills and died trying to pay the astronomical bills from the cancer that killed my mother. My father fought in WWII. He believed in this country and this country let him down. It's too late for my father. It's too late for too many. It's way past time for healthcare reform. It's time for single payer healthcare.
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| peter skjold | NH |
I'm on a board for a community healthcare center and we are constantly trying to obtain money to provide quality services to the many patients who need care that will enable them to have healthy and productive lives. Most modern countries pride themselves in the quality of their healthcare to their citizens as they know that this ensures a benefit to all of its people.
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| Charles Pfeifer | WI |
I worked 25 years as the director of an Madison Urban Ministry (MUM) before I was forced into disability retirement by chronic fatigue syndrome. I saw first hand the misery caused by lack of adequate health care. I also saw the waste due to lost potential as creative people were handicapped by treatable health issues. Creating a national health care plan is a wise and just investment in our people.
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| Julie Mormando | NY |
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| Doug Bullock | NY |
Over 47 million people in the US do not have health insurance. Our for profit health system operates to maximize profits while minimalizing health care. The CLC's and Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO have endorsed HR 676 along with the Labor/Religion Coalition, Democracy for America, Working Families Party and other groups in the Albany NY area. SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE NOW !!
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| Eesha Williams | VT |
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| Pamela Norton | CA |
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| Mary van Valkenburg | NY |
Health care for all should be our country's top priority this year. It is an abomination that so many of our people can't get the care they need. Please, please, please change this now.
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| Gregory J. Kreitner, Esq. | IA |
In the land where "all men are created equal" it does not seem just that the men and women we elect to represent our needs have comprehensive healthcare paid for by our tax dollars while the people who elect them and fund their health care system are cast to the wind. HR-676 would bring fiscal sanity and equity to this nations health care system. MAke it happen NOW! Your job in Washington will depend on it!
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| Cynthia Hanford | |
For the first 40 years of my life, I had zero access to health care. For the last 10 years, I have been in a succession of HMOs, none of which will cover the health problems that affect me (I need a wheelchair and extensive dental work, neither of which are covered). Everyone is dissatisfied with the current system, even if they have insurance. Some never use their "health care" because they cannot cover the deductible. Co-payments of 20% can be unattainable when doctors and hospitals charge so much. We need a system that covers everyone for all their healthcare needs and that controls costs -- a single payer system that does not place people's health below making a profit for insurance companies. And we need a system that considers dental, vision and mental health care a part of each person's health. We also need to recognize that employers are keeping people underemployed with part-time and temporary work in order to avoid giving medical benefits.
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| Jim Hanrahan | WA |
Now is the time for YOU to listen to the PEOPLE, not the MONEY! Healthcare for EVERYONE is a RIGHT, and is the RIGHT thing to do!
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| Nancy Rosenfeld | NY |
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| Peg Ferm | WA |
It is criminal that we are one of the richest countires on earth and are letting our own citizens die, yes, DIE, for lack of health care. A friend in her fifties recently left her job, lost her health insurance, and DIED because she could not afford her heart medication or the exorbitant cost of individual health insurance in this state. I am sure she did not think it would kill her to go a few months without her meds, until she got another job, but it did, and we have lost a wonderful, talented human being. Because of NO HEALTH INSURANCE. This is criminal, there is no other word for it.
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| Linda Perlstein | NY |
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| Steven Weisblatt | NY |
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| Thayer Heath | NY |
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| Bob Snider | WA |
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| Marietta J. Tanner | PA |
I am an octogenarian, with health insurance, but I cannot abide seeing all the young children and families without. It boggles my mind that our country should be not have universal health insurance since the well being of the least of us affects us all.
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| Gerald Birmingham | NY |
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| Douglas McNeill | MD |
Haven't we seen enough suffering in families (bankruptcies, foreclosures), complicated deeply by lack of medical coverage?
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| Andrew March | AZ |
20 - 30% of healthcare expenditures go to administrative costs. That's mostly paying unqualified people to second guess your doctor, set up roadblocks to patient care and the efforts to counteract these tactics. Single payer will be cheaper, easier and money will be directed to providing healthcare not denying healthcare.
Andrew March M.D.
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| Julia Gregory | TX |
Stop ignoring the will of the people. If my niece had had access to health care, she would not be in jail for forging prescriptions for pain medications. She would be home taking care of her 8 year old son. Our current system is turning citizens into criminals or invalids. Enough.
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| MaryAlice McComb | CO |
We need a single-risk pool system, tax supported, as soon as we can reflectively and carefully work out the details. We need particularly to utilize existing public systems as models and plan for both transition, sustainability, and differing regional needs. The public, for the most part, is receptive to a national system.
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| Maureen Sheahan | MI |
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| Helen Taylor | CO |
As someone who lives in a rural area and works for a healthcare organization, I feel it is extremely important to ensure that all Americans get the health care they need regardless of whether they have access to insurance or not. I have long believed that health care is a right, not a privilege reserved for the wealthy and those whose employers provide healthcare coverage. Even when an employer provides healthcare, some of the lower paid workers cannot afford to pay for it. From what I have read, the national healthcare proposal would be available to all regardless of a person's income level. Also I believe that the healthcare providers should be allowed to concentrate on giving care, not on all the administrative requirements of hundreds if not thousands of various insurance programs. I support the proposal to provide money to retrain those that may be displaced at the insurance companies when national health care is implemented.
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| Linda Marter | PA |
I believe that health care is a right of all citizens in a democracy, and I hope that by joining my voice with others, we can convinvce our legislators of this fact. Our society can only function to its fullest potential with the best participation of all of our citizens, and this can only occur when we are all healthy and focused on the challenges we face.
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| DALE LAURIN | NY |
HEALTH CARE IS THE RIGHT OF EVERY AMERICAN. IT'S UNJUST THAT ANYONE IN OUR RICH LAND HAS TO WORRY ABOUT PAYING DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL BILLS WHEN HE OR SHE IS SICK. IT'S SHAMEFUL THE PROFESSION'S NO. 1 PRIORITY ISN'T PROVIDING QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL BUT PROFITS FOR STOCKHOLDERS & CEOS. GETTING RID OF THE TOTALLY UNNECESSARY FACTOR OF PROFIT CRUCIAL IN ENDING THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS.
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| Nedra Cuffee | VA |
I am proud to live in the land of the free, but living here could be sweeter if everyonr had access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.
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| Jennie Pramualphol | NY |
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| J Hordos | TN |
It is over due , Healthcare for all even if we all have to pay a fee. We have no health insurance ,we can't afford it on what we make.
Everyone should be Treated the same not because he or she has more and is more important than the other person.
We need HR 676.
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| tom maclean | MA |
Let's revive local society, care for each other and dump the corporate healthcare industry's exploiters.
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| Michelle Hemingway MD | MA |
I see patients all the time who for unforseen catastrophic reasons do not have insurance or are grossly underinsured. As a leader in the world, how can we not take care of our citizens? Our priorities need to shift NOW.
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| joan lantz | NY |
Please give us national health care now.
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| cyril robinson | IL |
I have already sent in my comments on my expirences living in single-payer health care systems in England and France.
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| sheila burris | IL |
It seems unconscionable to me that I have excellent health care while at least 45 million have no health care, so have many more health problems. AS a Christian, I want for others what I have for my self. The insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies are making millions while millions are suffering with poor health. Let us have universal health care--and soon.
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| Bob Hubert | PA |
We must transfer administrative costs to cost-effective care.
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| Ashley Carson | VA |
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| Brian McAfee | MI |
A socialized health care system is the only fully moral and ethical option. Aside from being the socially just method the cost would be small when compared to the billions being poured into the Iraq war.
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| Dorothy Reilly | VT |
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| sheila burris | IL |
It seems unconscionable to me that many of us have excellent health care while 45 million others have no care. As a Christian, this is unacceptable, especially so as the cost of health care in the U.S. is at least two times that of other developed nations. We must have a universal health care system-and soon.
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| Peter Metcalf | IA |
I am a Pediatrician. I recently had to hospitalize a sick child for urgent care that could not be given at home. The mother was without health insurance and the child was not covered by Medicaid, hence the mother was responsible for the full cost of the hospitalization.
How long are we going to tolerate a situation where we effectively fine parents, often with limited financial resources, vast sums of money for the "crime" of having a sick child?
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| Lynne Sherman | NY |
My child nearly died because she had no healthcare (not offered where she works) and had to have emergency treatment to save her. Now she is paying enormous bills (even with charity help) and will do so for years and years on her modest income! Meanwhile, the HMOs made 10.8 billion in profits for 2005! Millions of American citizens work at modest jobs fueling our economy and a country that does not take care of its people. We fall behind the entire world in our care of our fellow countrymen! I support HR-676!!
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| James Hardwick | TX |
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| jerry earll | TN |
We do not wish to live in a country that does not take care of it's citizens and we will refuse to vote for members of a legislature that both encourage and permit it. All that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. That is what our voters and legislaters have permitted. Jerry Earll
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| James Hardwick | TX |
Denial of access to healthcare should NEVER become an "American " value. C'mon, let's join the rest of the civilized world and embrace this basic RIGHT that all citizens should have.
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| Walter Tsou | PA |
We have tried market medicine for 50 years and it has left us with out of control health care costs, 47 million uninsured, millions bankrupted by medical costs, and emergency rooms broken and overflowing. What better reason to say why we need a new paradigm. We need HR 676.
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| louise wasserberg | NY |
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| Steven G. Randall | MA |
As Andre Schiffrin reports in his new book, A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York. America has lost the vision it had after WW II when Truman attempted to provide non profit health care for all under the Fair Deal. Why must our people sacrifice both their treasure and their health for the sake of private insurance company profits? I join with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D - OH) in saying that the person we elect as our new president should not be an insurance salesmen. Single-payer Now!
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| Patricia Crowley | AL |
Create a universal health care system that is fair and equitable for all citizens.
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| David Lee | FL |
As a dual U.S /Canadian citizen, I have seen how health care works on both sides of the borders. In Canada, its very straightforward and humane..In the US, it is a bureaucratic NIGHTMARE! HMOs will bend over backwards to deny me medical procedures. They look for any excuse to kick me off...The co-pays are HUGE under my HMO.
Lack of health insurance...this puts a serious strain on personal relationships. 40 million uninsured people, in the richest country in the world??
FOR SHAME, AMERICA! Politicians and insurance companies, hang your head in shame!
We need HR-676! Health care for EVERYBODY!
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| Nancy Field | NY |
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| Nancy Kirschner | MA |
So obviously the 'right' thing to do. Please begin hearings NOW.
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| paul gottlieb | PA |
Health care for all NOW
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