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| Sandra Jones-Gonzalez | IL |
People are dying unnecessarily due to lack of access to primary care services. Lack of access is experienced by the young who cannot afford co-payments/deductibles, the uneducated, the disabled and the mentally ill, the current system is a burden on small businesses due to the high premium costs offered them, many small businesses forgo coverage all together, if you live in the rural areas; your access is even further limited due to physician maldistribution. The system is so fragmented there are many players with their own interests that involves turning a profit and answering to their shareholders: they are providers, 3rd party payers, pissed off employers and healthcare consumers who are told where to go for care usually outside their own communities, what meds to take and are denied experimental clinical trials in cases of cancer because they don't have the right healthplan that offers this. Also keep in mind the healthplan is purchased by their employer, so the healthcare consumer never had a say so in the first place.
The employers are the ones who finance the system voluntarily and they select which plan will give them a favorable bottom line on their P& L statements. Employers are not mandated to provide coverage.
Bottom line...the current captalistic market system cannot provide universal healthcare...the country needs to look at a social justice designed market system for all of us. We are still the unhealthiest nation around.
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| Kerri Sheldon | MA |
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| Neill Dumont | VA |
Health care is a right, like education, that elected officials should legislate into existence for their constituency. The case for a national single-payer universal health care system should be evaluated on how it would serve Americans first, without relying overmuch on the influence of pharmaceutical companies and HMOs.
Please support a national healthcare system
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| Jo Maas | WA |
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| Dennis Tucker | WA |
We will do the right thing.
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| Carissa gluth | MI |
Universal Health Care is not only logical but also humane. My family pays out a lot of money for health care and I am tired of being raped by health insurance companies!
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| Jim Mason | GA |
I think it is a national disgrace that we only provide health care in this country to those who can afford it. If a small country such as Costa Rica can afford national health care, why can't we?
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| Russell Kovach | MD |
Reality is that the universal healthcare will save more Americans EVERY DAY than died in the September 11th attacks (which we have spent many billions of dollars retaliating and protecting against). How can we justify that cost without spending less money to save MANY MORE Americans with universal health care? It is time... it has been time... for Universal Healthcare. I can promise that I will vote with healthcare considerations on my mind. Do what is best for your country, support Universal Healthcare!!!
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| Bonnie Barker | WA |
People in the "richest" country in the world should not be excluded from health care because of inability to pay sky-rocketing insurance premiums. People with pre-existing conditions should not be denied coverage, either. We need health coverage for all.
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| Julie Szekely | AZ |
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| Akilah Oliver | CO |
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| Carlos Rivas | CA |
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| Mary Schleissmann | NY |
Healthcare for all isn't too much to ask for in a wealthy nation. If Congress curtailed the waste, the money would be there, esp. for the uninsured children. The Repulicans love the fetus, hate the child.After it's born, its on its own, how sad. We want healthcare for all!!!
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| Venessa Waite | CA |
I'm a single parent. I work five shifts a week and I still don't qualify for insurance with my employer, nor do I qualify for government insurance benefits. I've been going through screenings for both breast and cervical cancer and I have no insurance. It's scary. Fortunately, I have Healthy Families coverage for my child. I'm hoping that the government will implement a similar program for adults. Every single person should be important despite their age. If the parent(s) are well and taken care of physically, then the children of that household benefit.
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| Jenny Takakura | CA |
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| K. Milner | AZ |
Taking care of our health should be a human right. If we are the richest nation, why can't we offer health care to our people. It is so vital and so unattainable for so many Americans, right here in our country. We know how to treat and prevent so many of the illnesses that have rendered many people unable to function. I want to make a difference.
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| Christine Morris | NM |
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| Ken Haney | TX |
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| Kata Orndorff | AZ |
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| Mickie Foster | VA |
It is time to stand up and demand fair heath coverage, without the corporate gouging.
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| Richard Bourgeois | MI |
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| Anita Rogers | NC |
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| Patricia Duke | TX |
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| Steven A. Mason | PA |
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| James Lamal | WI |
A nation's most valuable resource is it's people. A government truely by, for, and of, the people ensures the people are educated and healthy. Surely the "most wealthy country in the world" can afford universal health care for all of the people.
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| Charles Rodgers | IN |
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| Michael Culclasure | SC |
It is outrageous that the richest country in the world is the only developed country in the world to not have universal healthcare for all of its citizens. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
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| samantha gray | NC |
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| Marianne Reyns | TN |
It is a total outrage that we have hard-working people in this country that cannot get healthcare, healthcare insurance, or even afford healthcare! I lived in a country that took care of their citizens first and everyone who was working had socialized medical where you could choose the doctor you wanted and did not have to worry about medical bills. I got the best doctor's attention and medical care while there. They really cared about getting people well and not how much money they would make. For such an advanced country, why can't we take care of our working people and put our taxes to better use? Other countries are at least taking care of their working people. I am a US citizen born in the US, but I could move to another country if work permits and get some of the best care. This makes no sense!
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| Donna Ricci | NY |
This is a good way to do this health plan.
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| George Marshall | NY |
I think this is a good idea.
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| Audrey Tyndall | MO |
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| Michelle Heitmann | WA |
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| Dolores Williams | CO |
It is time to get behind HR676 now and ask eveyone we meet to ask our legislators to sign on. Of course, getting Democrats in the majority in th House would make it happen.
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| Terry Morris | CA |
I'm a licensed health insurance agent and I stand to lose income by the passage of the bill, but, I feel it's a travesty with how health insurance companies continue to increase premiums in skyrocket fashion, cut corners on coverages forcing the insureds to pay more out of their pocket. All of this is done under the guise of ever rising drug cost and other medical expenses. Yet, huge bonuses are still being paid out to the corporate heads of these companies. "One" can't help but wonder when bigger health companies buy out smaller health companies, then deny that they are not helping to pay for their leverage buyouts by placing more premium burdens on the backs on their insureds. It's hard to believe them when insurance premiums go up dramatically soon after the purchase. It's shameful and disgraceful, and it needs to change. Americans deserve a better system, and shouldn't suffer as a result of corporate greed.
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| Nick Powell | WA |
All Americans need and deserve decent medical care NOW.
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| Jeanne Milliren | WA |
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| Mona Marlow | WA |
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| Victoria Hucks | SC |
I have been a registered nurse for 12 years and I am currently attending the Medical University of South Carolina to further my degree. I am finishing a course in health care systems and policy and found your web site while doing research. I fully support this bill and would like to be involved if needed. I will start to contact my respresentatives in congress.
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| Kenneth Kirk | FL |
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| Jack Lohman | WI |
For the same dollars we are spending today to cover 85% of the population we could cover 100%. Why are politicians dragging their feet? Follow the money!
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| Brandon Krieg | MI |
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| Deborah Walker | CA |
Universal health care should be added to the Bill of Rights!
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| Jennifer Riesmeyer | PA |
I had "employer insurance" and in a medical emergency I was left on a gurney in the hospital hall for over an hour while the hospital verified my coverage. I'm certain that if I had none, I would have been left to die.
I also believe there would be more jobs in America as this huge cost for employers would be eliminated. National Health Care NOW
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| Pamela Williams | CA |
my children quailify for healthy families but I don't qualify for anything. If I get sick we all go back on welfare
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| Donna Laubhan | TX |
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| Laurin Loy | SC |
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| Mary Ann McAllister | MI |
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| Thomas Zeta | IN |
Our country is blessed with enough bounty to share it with all.
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| Ruth Indeck | NJ |
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| mary ann mcallister | MI |
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| Rebecca Donicht | MN |
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| Maureen Stapler Crowell | OR |
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| William Tarbell | PA |
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| Joeletta Akemon | OH |
Let's Do It!!!!
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| Mary Compton | OH |
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| Jaclyn Stacy | OH |
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| Jane Shelly | CT |
It is time for this country to address this issue -- we are far behind the rest of the world on this -- even Cuba has a better health care system than we do!
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| Sharon Fisher | DE |
The only people who benefit from the current system is the insurance industry. The providers suffer as well as consumers whether or not they have insurance. I know, I am a mental health provider and a sole business owner. I know the suffering on both ends. Please make this a priority and bring the United States up to par with the rest of the industrialized nations.
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| Laura Pinhey | IN |
Families are making important decisions about jobs and childcare based alone on the need for health insurance, and many are going bankrupt when they do get sick. Businesses, especially small ones, are struggling to provide health plans for their employees. And we are allowing insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry to run the show. We should be ashamed of ourselves for letting this continue for so long. A single-payer system can't be any more problematic or expensive than what we have. It's only right that we make this change, now.
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| Laura Pinhey | IN |
Families are making important decisions about jobs and childcare based alone on the need for health insurance, and many are going bankrupt when they do get sick. Businesses, especially small ones, are struggling to provide health plans for their employees. And we are allowing insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry to run the show. We should be ashamed of ourselves for letting this continue for so long. A single-payer system can't be any more problematic or expensive than what we have. It's only right that we make this change, now.
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| Katherine G. Miller | NJ |
I am a registered nurse practicing as a school nurse in the inner city. I have also experienced catastrohic illness in my family. Although may family was able to recover from it financially, many of the families I work with would not be able to. A single payer system in this country is th only fair and just way for all our citizens to receive their basic human right of accessible,affordable health care.
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| Mardain Reis | CA |
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| Terri Reis | CA |
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| Kathleen Cobb | AL |
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| Shauna Williams | OR |
At 27 I have just now started my own health care plan. For just me, one single person, I pay 178 a month...how could a single mom do that? Or even a two parent family? I have suffered and stayed away from the doctor, I still do. How can we be proud of a country that offers no health care to its citizens?
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| patrick o'bryan | KY |
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| Zoe Zidbeck | NY |
Medicaid's overhead is much less than commercial healthcare's. It's another one of those things that seemsto be a natural monopoly. Perhaps the courts will rule however, that you can't tell someone how to spend their health care dollars & it'll have to be voluntary. Certainly socialized prevention & testing. federally subsidized coop health care.
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| Elizabeth Kinney | CO |
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| Jacqueline Setlock RN | DE |
Witness for a decade to the UN-HEALTHY, INHUMAN, treatment of humans by the profit driven HEALTHCARE industry.
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| Becky Genberg | MD |
Health is a fundamental human right. Everyone should have access to affordable and high quality healthcare regardless of employment status or ability to pay.
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| Carol Buente | ID |
I have been on the fence about this health care for everyone but people need to see a doctor, be admitted to a hospital or take medication to stay healthy. I want a good, safe coverage, not to be put on a waiting list as has happened in Canada.. Thank you.
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| Sarah Wade | CA |
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| Sarah Wade | CA |
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| Crystal Beck | CT |
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| Crystal Beck | CT |
Please pass the bill
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| Kelly Mitchell | |
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| Teri McGovern | AZ |
It's the humane thing to
do!
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| Randall Stanley | CO |
It is known fact that insurance companies that sell health insurance policies, health care providers and prescription drug companies will apose this or any type of grass roots movement because it will hit them where it hurts the most. I say let it hurt like the American population has for so many years. We made them billionaires and they still are greedy. God speed with the project and every bill it takes in Congress until every American can have the opportunity for health care.
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| Doug Grider | KY |
We need affordable, efficient health care for everyone. Health care should not be rationed.
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| Rev. J. K. Nolan De Nobles | WA |
This this is just so so very necessary. It is God's intention that we not only have life, but life abundantly. And while eternal life does not depend upon any earthly health care syste, God knows that without health, and care of health, and the means to care for health now while we are here , then survivalon earth (i.e. a "zoe" life) is simply unattainable. If we have the countless billions of dollars to wage war in the name of peace any and every-where else in the world, then certainly we have the capacity to wage war on those whose capital interests are vested in the exploita-tion of ill-health and poverty. The lack of universal health care and the consequences thereof is a travesty. Anywhere. But certainly never more so than in a place that prides itself as "the WEALTHIEST country in the world". It is time that we pride ourselves in becoming the HEALTHIEST country in the world-- and I don't mean by comparison to everywhere else, I mean on an individual by individual, family by family, community by community, and state by state basis. It cannot be overstated that there are scores of illnesses which are terrifying to those who are stricken with them and those who fear they maybe someday. The only thing worse is the terror of having no way to obtain the necessary care. That is a war on terror worth waging. No matter how much we fight terror around the world, if we do not wage health on a universal basis right here at home, then there can be no peace here...And that enemy is a terror that will yet still prevail.
"NARABA!" and Good God bless.
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| Brian Willard | NM |
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| joe reis | CA |
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| Patricia Duke | TX |
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| GEORGIA THOMAS | MO |
GREAT JOB!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
GEORGIA
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| jim ryan | NY |
we need quality universal healthcare if its god enough for the politicians[who could well afford to buy thier own] its good enough for all of us including hardworking low wage workers who cant afford to buy their own especially at the prices the greedy insurance companies charge, high profiting companies like walmart refuse to pay health coverage as well
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| Joanna Urrego, R.N. | WA |
Dennis Kucinich for President in 2008! Start showing up to rallies with this and other positive changes on your mind. Thank You.
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| Frank Turner | OR |
Single payer is the way to go. Control of capital investments, distribution of providers and facilities, and control of the specialty mix coming out of training will be required.
Insurance company infrastructure and personnel will not be needed for billing and marketing; let's offer them the job of surveying medical outcomes and providing feedback to providers, plus a role in evaluating medical needs in various parts of the national community.
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| Jemimah Hendrix | |
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| James & Rita Grauer | OR |
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| Beryl Hellgren | PA |
It is about time that the US had a national and affordable, all-inclusive healthcare system. It is downright criminal considering we are the wealthiest nation in the world, yet we do not take care of our own.
Not only do the poor and indigent not have healthcare, but a large percentage of the middleclass can not afford adequate coverage.
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| Peter Wergeland | OR |
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| Gill Brociner | NY |
National health insurance coverage and a single payer health system is a vital necessity, along with being pure and simple common sense! It is also important that health care focus on prevention and complementary, healing mind-body-spirit modalities of treatment.
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| malcolm drake | OR |
we not only get poorer health care than other countries, but also we have the privilege of paying more for it. for instance, we pay about twice what CAnadians do, per capita.
Sick.
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| malcolm drake | OR |
we not only get poorer health care than other countries, but also we have the privilege of paying more for it. for instance, we pay about twice what CAnadians do, per capita.
Sick.
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| tom ellefsen | ME |
Please make this a top priority for all Americans. One bad accident could financially cripple someone for life, not to mention the physical suffering. People that don't earn that much can't take the burden of it. Other countries have national healthcare, and ours is meant to be the best country. Please make it happen.
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| Sue Orris | OR |
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| Wendy Reeder | PA |
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| William Linford | CA |
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| Lois Linford | CA |
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| Lynn Camhi | CA |
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| Carol Isaacs | IN |
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| Margaret Keip | OR |
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| Coleen Conway | GA |
I'm fortunate to have healthcare benefits through my employer; however, it's not fair to stick some employers with this cost. We need national healthcare now!
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| Patricia Town | KY |
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| john keyon | CA |
Funding for the defense budget should come after all citizens needs are met. Tax cuts for the wealthiest of our society is outrageous!
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| Steven G. Randall | MA |
We in the United States have lived through decades of our peculiar institution, tying health care coverage to employment and the for-profit insurance industry. Time has provided sufficient evidence that this system does not work. As a nation we spend more than any other on health, yet the health status of the nation lags behind many who spend much less. It is time to free ourselves from bondage to this industry and to save our lives. We in Massachusetts are living in the most expensive state in the most expensive nation. We are on the very tip of the iceberg. It is time to get off before the berg melts away, drowning us all.
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| Clifford Garstang | VA |
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| Pamela Wax | NY |
This is the richest country in the world. It is embarrassing that so many of our citizens go without health insurance. Per a 60 Minutes segment this past week regarding the undue charges incurred for emergency care by the uninsured, I am even more outraged by the inequities of our system.
Heathcare - NOW!
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| Charles Cranwell, Jr. | VA |
I don't know if this is the answer but, at least it is a start.
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| William Hughes | VA |
It is time for America to join the first world of nations and provide for the basic national health care of our citizens
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| Karen Satagaj | CT |
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| Erika Bergstrom | CT |
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| Jerry Satagaj | CT |
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| Erika bergstrom | CT |
I fractured a bone in my back years ago, when I had health insurance through my job. I lost my job, and my insurance. now I live with constant pain, because I can not afford healthcare. I now have a sinus infection also, and no doctor will do anything because of lack of health insurance. I was told they would like to do tests because I may need surgery, but nobody will do it. Therefore, I live with everyday sinus and back pain, all because health insurance is way too expensive.
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| Robert Gowan | |
Health care in this country is simple DON'T GET SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Cynthia Riedinger | CT |
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| Allison Guttu | NY |
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| Barbara Moore | OR |
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| Steven Danielson | KS |
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| Brian Burkhardt | IL |
I have kidney stones. It'd be much easier to maintain calm if I wasn't in pain.
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| Wes Johnson | PA |
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| Emily Calhoun | GA |
Single payer health care would be cheaper, easier than the present system and would cover more people. Let's do it!
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| Melinda Gerardy | MO |
As a hospital bedside nurse, I continually am made aware of the cost of patients who cannot afford the medication and follup that we so carefully teach them. Repeat hospitalizations are expensive to all of us.
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| Ashley Weatherford | IL |
I'm tired of seeing people's lives ruined because they have no options, when a medical emmergency happens. This is should not be happening in the richest country in the world!
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| Linda LaPorta | FL |
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| Christopher Covert-Bowlds, MD | WA |
18,000 Americans dying every year from lack of health insurance is not only a tragedy, it's a crime. It's time we hold our legislators accountable, time to cover all Americans with health insurance.
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| Mary Lund | MN |
It's about time!
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| Nadia Kanhai | IL |
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| Carolann Yuja | CT |
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| ann ritchie | NY |
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| Tabitha Broadstreet | PA |
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| Dr. Harriet Fraad | NY |
Our healthcare system is a sham. We desperately need a Canadian system. As a doctor, I cannot see paeople who need me.
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| Don Fortner | OH |
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| Ruella Anderson | CO |
The only way to halt outsourcing, company bankruptcies, (Auto makers)and to increase our health and well being is with a single payer health care system. We need action now!
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| Judith Murray | ME |
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| Bruce Funkey | IN |
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| LaVerne Domel | TX |
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| James Tschantz | WI |
The time has come. We need this NOW!
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| Rev. Fred Keip | OR |
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| Madeleine Baran | MN |
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| Jill Levine | |
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| Robert Ashmore, Ph.D. | FL |
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| audrey maslin | FL |
I am 78 years old and blessedly have the peace of mind and the occasional necessary medical attention that comes with eligibility for Medicare. I want my children and my neighbors and all my fellow Floridians and fellow Americans to have this peace of mind and necessary care also. It's the right thing to do, and the time is NOW. Our representatives in government have to know that we, the people, want this.
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| Dorothy Schwartz | NJ |
It is the right of everyone living in this country to have access to good health care.
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| Robert Crossley | ME |
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| Donald Beck | CT |
My wife died a year ago of cancer. At one time she needed a high priced pill to stop her from up chucking. Our insurance wouldn't cover it. I'm retired. Please help our people of the USA. Pass it now.
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| David Dickinson | CT |
WE NEED IT NOW. WE ALL NEED INSURANCE WECAN AFFORD.
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| Susan Delventhal | MO |
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| Joerg Peter | MO |
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| Sue Doersch | WI |
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| Mary Jo Plummer | WI |
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| Claire Charlton Rahn | OH |
Of all the problems that confront us as a nation, this is the one that should unify us all. Heathcare NOW is long overdo. Universal coverage must become the number one priority of our legislators.
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| Beatrice Kovasznay | NY |
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| Kenneth Wachtel | FL |
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| Beverly Davis | FL |
My family has had continual problems with insurance providers -- the profit must be taken out of healthcare!
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| Josie Sova | MI |
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| Joseph Lasek | VT |
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| Jim Brillon | CA |
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| Evaline Auerbach | AZ |
Let's turn the tables on the neo-cons: Spend so much money on what the people need that there won't be enough for wars!
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| Janet Knowles | WA |
Sad that in the so-called richest country, we have so many millions without insurance and many more millions with little coverage. As a Canadian living here, health insurance is a disgrace compared to the system we left. Administrative costs run five times what they would be under single payer, there's no marketing costs, no CEO runaway salaries and stock and options - people shouldn't get rich on the backs of sick people. More and more insurance companies are denying coverage that doctors recommend so you in fact have no coverage at all. Imagine a place where you'd never need to worry about your health needs again - with single payer universal healthcare, that could be your new world.
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| Janet Knowles | WA |
Sad that in the so-called richest country, we have so many millions without insurance and many more millions with little coverage. As a Canadian living here, health insurance is a disgrace compared to the system we left. Administrative costs run five times what they would be under single payer, there's no marketing costs, no CEO runaway salaries and stock and options - people shouldn't get rich on the backs of sick people. More and more insurance companies are denying coverage that doctors recommend so you in fact have no coverage at all. Imagine a place where you'd never need to worry about your health needs again - with single payer universal healthcare, that could be your new world.
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| Chris Brancato | CT |
It's been over 10 years since I have had health insurance. One main reason, I CAN'T AFFORD IT!
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| Joy and Bob Johnson | MN |
Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Even Cuba has Universal Single-Payer Healthcare for all!!!People over profits!!!
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| kathleen McDonough | PA |
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| Emily Harry | IL |
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| David Gilbert | NY |
Is there any doubt that this country needs comprehensive health care. Support this single payer proposition now.
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| John Ruckauf | IL |
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| Patricia Cartwright | WI |
Patricia Cartwright
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| Bob & Melinda Winet | CA |
The savings to businesses would be enormous making USA much more competitive in a Global market.
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| Renee Palmonari | CA |
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| Lawrence Brown | MD |
How can America be considered a great nation when it does not even take care of all of its citizen's primary needs? The health and welfare of the United States' citizens depends on the decisions that our governing representatives make. If those decisions are only in the best interests of the rich, then we are not really a nation "for the people." We are a nation "for the rich people." We should keep our priorities in order by allowing some of the wealth of this nation to be spread among the citizens who live here. The natural resources in America came from God alone. Life itself comes from God alone. Love comes from God alone. If we are to survive as the nation of prosperity that we were intended to be, we must use the things that came from God in a way that will please Him. HR676 would be a step in the right direction. It will not solve all our problems but it will save lives and show the world that we care enought about our people to give them a share of the resources that were given to America. This healthcare progrqam might just save the life of a future president, a future scientist, a future world renowned inventor, or one of our grandchildren. The most important reason to implement HR676 is because it is the right thing to do. To "love thy neighbor as we love ourselves" is to give our neighbor adequate healthcare. Few decisions, or few choices will be as important as supporting HR676. Do the right thing.
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| Lawrence Brown | MD |
How can America be considered a great nation when it does not even take care of all of its citizen's primary needs? The health and welfare of the United States' citizens depends on the decisions that our governing representatives make. If those decisions are only in the best interests of the rich, then we are not really a nation "for the people." We are a nation "for the rich people." We should keep our priorities in order by allowing some of the wealth of this nation to be spread among the citizens who live here. The natural resources in America came from God alone. Life itself comes from God alone. Love comes from God alone. If we are to survive as the nation of prosperity that we were intended to be, we must use the things that came from God in a way that will please Him. HR676 would be a step in the right direction. It will not solve all our problems but it will save lives and show the world that we care enought about our people to give them a share of the resources that were given to America. This healthcare progrqam might just save the life of a future president, a future scientist, a future world renowned inventor, or one of our grandchildren. The most important reason to implement HR676 is because it is the right thing to do. To "love thy neighbor as we love ourselves" is to give our neighbor adequate healthcare. Few decisions, or few choices will be as important as supporting HR676. Do the right thing.
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| Carol Norberg | CA |
Sounds like a viable strategy. Shouldn't be too hard to get millions of signatures, but no progress until this administration is history.
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| Edward Theil | CA |
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| Anastasia Ross | MO |
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| anita weinstein | NY |
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| Vincent Roveto | CA |
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| Paul Sorum | NY |
When we have Medicare for All--universal coverage via a single payer--physicians will be able to take care of patients, not their insurance companies.
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| Christine Verber, EdD, RN | NY |
My criterion for voting is whether the legislator is for "Medicare for All"
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| Genie Ogden | WI |
Health care should be a right. It is much too expensive. Our daughter became sick while in California last summer and had to go to the emergency room. It turned out she had a kidney infection.The visit cost over $1000!. Fortunately our HMO still covered her at the time. But it doesn't now. She has a job and we're just crossing our fingers that she doesn't get sick in the 3 months before her coverage kicks in.
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| George Loeb | CA |
Whys should the insurance and pharmaceutical industries determine healthcare policy for the people of this country? Healthcare for all citizens is a necessity, that will make our country along with it's people stronger.
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| Nydia Leaf | NY |
YES!
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| Ann Barnette | TN |
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| Virginia Baron | CT |
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| Barbara Flug | |
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| Kevin Klejwa | NM |
National health care is my top voting priority.
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| Claire O'Connor | MN |
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| Bernie Fetterly | NY |
Single-Payer health coverage is needed now too many people are being hurt.
I don't see how our representatives can be so cruel and ignore the need for a National Health Care Plan. Bernie
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| Elizabeth Thrasher | MD |
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| Kelly Garrett | UT |
As a psychologist in hospital-based practice, I support this healthcare reform. I am sobered by the amount of WASTE that occurs at my hospital. Our budgets are so tight we can't buy pens that are safe for patients, yet so much of my time, and scored of offices are filled with bureaucrats trying to bill and receive money.
Reform is needed now.
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| Mary Graves | NY |
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| Merrily Davies | CA |
Instead of making sensless war and killing innocent people, let's use our tax money to make our own people healthier.
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| Peggy Valdés | IL |
I now know what the phrase "land of plenty" is referring to....we pay plenty for healthcare. I recently had to shop for individual healthcare insurance for my family and it was a rude awakening. Working folks need HR 646.
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| Diana Stein | MA |
I have good insurance and still got dumped after 25 years (!) by the University
Health Services when I (and about 150 others) became 65 because they did not want to take Medicare for the first part of the bills!
We need single payer to stop this nonsense and take care of everyone.
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| Benjamin Chance | MS |
We halp everyone else in the world why can't we help our Americian citizens
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| Carolene Brubaker | PA |
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| Carolene Brubaker | |
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| Neville McJUnkin | FL |
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| Michael Kennedy | OR |
Now is the time.......
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| Debbie MItchell | NY |
We need this NOW
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| Peggy Wood | PA |
This will provide justice for all people.
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| Ron Barnes | GA |
Healthcare should be a right, not an option.
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| Edith Clifton | MI |
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| Christie Biaggi | NY |
Bravo for your work with the health. I am proud of your work.
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| Joel Schwartz | NY |
President - CSEA Local 446
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| Patricia Doan | IN |
Please allow access to heathcare for all Americans.
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| Victoria Luciano | NY |
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| barbara jacobs | NY |
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| Karen Peterson | NY |
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| Larry Segal | FL |
I have no health insurance and cannot get any to do a chronic illness. I cannot get it even without taking out that particular illness. We need a new system that gives insurance to all.
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| James Holton | FL |
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| Michael Lyon | CA |
My friend wrote me:
As our country plunges us ito endless war (see Special report: Americas Long War, The Guardian 2-15-06), soldiers are not the only ones in harms way. While billions are spent on the war in Iraq, the Medicare Modernization Act was forced down our throats by arm-twisting, threats and crooked deals in Congress. The result is a cut to benefits for many low income families and the disabled. All of this was made very real to my family and me as my son, who has chronic kidney disease, tried to leap the hurdles presented to him under Medicare Drug Part D through his HMO.
He became alarmed when a coordinator from his Medicare HMO called, tearfully informing him that his insurance would only cover six of his thirteen medications. First they disapproved two of his four high blood pressure medications. To compensate his doctor had to double up on the amount of medication, which caused his blood pressure to become unstable until they got the dosage right. MediCal funding is no longer available to him to cover Semsipar, a drug that controls the amount of calcium in his system at the cost of $1,800 a month. The co-pay under his insurance plan is 50%, an amount neither he nor anyone in our family can afford. Presently he is getting samples from his dialysis center and a sympathetic pharmacist. His doctor says that if he is not able to get a stable supply source his only alternative is to have surgery to remove his parathyroid to stop production of calcium. Because he cannot excrete calcium due to his illness, it becomes life threatening if he does not take Semsipar.
However this scenario plays out, he and his wife are now forced to find cheaper housing in order to pay for the other drugs. For those with fragile lives, these cuts are truly life threatening. The SF Gray Panthers are right on the mark demanding the Medicare Drug Benefit be scrapped and replaced by universal, single payer health care with low-cost drugs.
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| Michael Lyon | CA |
My friend wrote me:
As our country plunges us ito endless war (see Special report: Americas Long War, The Guardian 2-15-06), soldiers are not the only ones in harms way. While billions are spent on the war in Iraq, the Medicare Modernization Act was forced down our throats by arm-twisting, threats and crooked deals in Congress. The result is a cut to benefits for many low income families and the disabled. All of this was made very real to my family and me as my son, who has chronic kidney disease, tried to leap the hurdles presented to him under Medicare Drug Part D through his HMO.
He became alarmed when a coordinator from his Medicare HMO called, tearfully informing him that his insurance would only cover six of his thirteen medications. First they disapproved two of his four high blood pressure medications. To compensate his doctor had to double up on the amount of medication, which caused his blood pressure to become unstable until they got the dosage right. MediCal funding is no longer available to him to cover Semsipar, a drug that controls the amount of calcium in his system at the cost of $1,800 a month. The co-pay under his insurance plan is 50%, an amount neither he nor anyone in our family can afford. Presently he is getting samples from his dialysis center and a sympathetic pharmacist. His doctor says that if he is not able to get a stable supply source his only alternative is to have surgery to remove his parathyroid to stop production of calcium. Because he cannot excrete calcium due to his illness, it becomes life threatening if he does not take Semsipar.
However this scenario plays out, he and his wife are now forced to find cheaper housing in order to pay for the other drugs. For those with fragile lives, these cuts are truly life threatening. The SF Gray Panthers are right on the mark demanding the Medicare Drug Benefit be scrapped and replaced by universal, single payer health care with low-cost drugs.
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| Jennifer Kardiak | NY |
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| David P. Adalian, Jr. | CA |
That anyone must go without adequate healthcare in a country this rich is a crime.
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| Dorene Carrel | WA |
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| Stephen Karakashian | OR |
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| Karen Hoover | NY |
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| Charles Kayser | VA |
The current situation, unfortunately, favors status quo. Lobbies (particularly backed by huge industries such as health insurance) can use the "bullhorn effect" to drown out individual voices that more clearly reflect the majority of Americans. It will take something so ostentatious that it cannot be ignored--something akin to the March on Washington, perhaps. If an organization were arrange a massive demonstration of the struggling uninsured--and do it before Election Day, healthcare could suddenly become a hot-button issue, an election-turner. If this doesn't get the issue passed, it's hard to imagine anything that will short of a revolution.
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| June Schumacher | WA |
Please support HR676, the national single payer bill. We desperately need more health care for less money. Thank you!
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| Tara Miller | CO |
IT IS ABOUT TIME WE GET WHAT WE ARE PAYING FOR!
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| Barbara A. Zeluck | NY |
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| Dolores Williams | CO |
It is past time that the USA provide all with universal single-payer health care (Expanded Medicare for All (HR676) and/or Medicare for All (S.2229). We just have to get Democrats elected (majority) to get these bills out of committee.
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| Victor Ong | AZ |
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| Carole Zatlin | MO |
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| Virginia Schimmel | MA |
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| Norman & Joan Levine | NY |
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| Lorette Picciano | VA |
My brother has MS and his insurance company gave him a wheelchair instead of physical therapy. And he is only one of many people who are not getting the care they need to live productive lives. Healthcare Now shows us there is a better way!
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| Blair Grubbs | CA |
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| Scott Roos | IL |
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| James Hardwick | TX |
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| Janet Hill | PA |
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| Monroe & Fran Sullivan | IL |
H.R. 676 is about60 years overdo. Even large U.S. employers now favor it to make us competitive with other nations. All Americans should get behind this cause.
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| Anne DeGennaro | NJ |
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| Joel Rosen | MA |
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| Loren Herrigstad | WA |
I'm an independent contractor real estate agent with no health insurance. I suffered a gallbladder attack last September, and had to have surgery to remove it. My hospital care bill for Emergency Room Care, two nights in a room and the use of an operating room came to $18,900, which was fortunately paid for by the nonprofit hospital's Charity Care program. My surgeon's and anesthesiologist's fees were not though, and they total over $3,800 which I am still paying off six months later. The idea of Medical Savings Accounts is just ludicrous, if not a downright cruel prescription, for most of us working Americans. It is time we joined the rest of the First World and had Single Payer Health Care in this nation!
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| Eila Algood | CT |
Healthcare availability for us all, now that sounds like the American way!
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| Elizabeth Lockman | DE |
Right now, my employer covers my health care, but can not afford my daughter's... I am just making ends meet on a small salary but as a single mom household my pay overqualifies me to even get my daughter on the state sliding-scale health plan in which I would pay a reasonable low fee. Now I'll have to pay tons out of pocket just to get her a subpar, big-name catastrophic plan. Yes, I'd like to see a national healthcare plan!!!
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| Vernon Mogensen | NY |
Health care is a human right not a privilege to be bestowed or taken away by the powers that be.
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| Aviva Glass | NY |
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| David Way | NJ |
Our time has come to join the rest of the world. Access to the best health care is a right, not a privilege.
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| Sharon Johnson | CO |
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| Rev. Dorsey Blake | CA |
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| Kathleen Geary | OR |
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| Rev. Dorsey | |
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| Sue Tekulve | OH |
It is appalling that we have such an inadequate health care system in this country. Something needs to be done to provide health care to everyone. Not just to those wealthy enough to afford it.
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| Lenny Cavallaro | MA |
Obviously, the system presently in place does not work for MANY people. Affordable healthcare is a great idea, and I urge consideration of the single-payer system!
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| jack kashinsky | NY |
Good luck!
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| Mike Hordos | TN |
Health Care for all our People and Dental should be covered also. I can't afford what the insurance company's want. We are almost 60 and have no insurance, it is too expensive on our income.
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| Steve Walls | TN |
This is the most important issue facing the country right now, and any politician who doesn't understand that is going to be in for a rude awakening come the next election.
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| Tracy Kaplowitz | NY |
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| Kevi Brannelly | NY |
Please do the right thing for this country and our citizens.
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| Deborah Bershatsky | NY |
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| Rio Thomas | WA |
I'm 51 years old and have already lost a tooth due to no healthcare. I am in debt to the dentist,two years behind on cleanings and fillings, and this is contributing to even more problems that I wouldn't have had if I could afford regular dental care.
In the wealthiest country in the world, I think everyone should have healthcare.
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| Lee Grude | CA |
This senior is beginning to see how difficult affordable health care is to get when it's needed most.
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| Richey Grude | CA |
...that we joined other developed nations in having comprehensive, uncomplicated health care for their citizens!
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| Joseph Posada | IA |
No American should have to worry about getting adequate health care or if they will have enough money when they retire! Especially when our government is squandering billions of our tax dollars on senseless military conquests in Iraq, Afhghanistan and a "war on terror" that doesn't exist!
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| Richard Graeser | CA |
What an embarassment for the USA to be ranked 37th in the world in health care! Let's take care of one another now before it's too late.
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| Joseph Posada | |
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| Tom Almquist | FL |
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| Bruce S. Dean | NY |
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| Sharon Penrod | MO |
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| Carolyn Carosella | CA |
I'm single, work a full time job and still CAN'T AFFORD health insurance! Let's pass this bill!!
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| Catherine Rowan | NY |
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| judy west | NY |
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| Gabriel Gentile | NV |
We are the most wealthy and advanced nation in the world. There is NO EXCUSE that other nations can provide health care for ALL their citizens and we can't!
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| Jim Hanrahan | WA |
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| Sam Houston Allred | CA |
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| Willliam Szakovits | FL |
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| Sandy Orr | PA |
Everybody In! Nobody out!
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| Ellen Lebowitz | DE |
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| Daniel Pryfogle | NC |
This health care issue poses a question at the heart of our national journey. As The Call put it, "When will America become America?"
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| Nicole Moore | CA |
My brother-in-law became homeless when he was fired from a job because he asked for healthcare insurance. A real healthcare solution is long overdue!
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| Cheryl Graunstadt | MI |
If citizens truly took a leadership role, the politicians would have no choice but to follow.
Healthcare for everyone is a human right and frankly, my feeling is that we should not be asking elected officials for National Healthcare Now, but telling them to get it done!
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| Tammy Hendell | PA |
My husband works at Penreco and they don't care about any raise. We just want them to leave our health care alone. We all have small children and they need the proper care. My husband has fought for this country in war, he deserves to live without fear for his children by having the appropriate care when needed. Imagine living your life not knowing if your children can be taken care of in case of emergencies or operations needed all because of health care issues. So lets all find new ways to help our children, don't take the privelege of leading a healthy normal life away from them just because of arrogance.
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| Eleanor Mailman | FL |
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| Adam Galas | MN |
America is the wealthiest nation on earth, and spends the most, per capita, on healthcare. Yet we have the 37th best system! We are literally pissing away vital healthcare funds while 18,000 people annually drop dead in the streets from lack of healthcare! Such a travesty must not be allowed to continue!
HR676 would, vitrually, overnight, place America on the path to truly pocessing the world's finest healthcare system. Thus I call upon all Americans to rise and demand the quality of medical care that we can, and must have!
I also call upon Betty McCullum, Representative of the 4th Congressional District of Minnesota, to support HR676 with all possible zeal.
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| Carolyn Olney | CA |
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| Carolyn Rousseau | OR |
As a member of a 2lst century government and nation, you expect to have health care and you do! As members of a 2lst century nation, perhaps the richest in the world, we need, desperately, to have health care.
Do your utmost to legislate health care for Americans. We all deserve it. This nation can only prosper when its citizens needn't declare bankruptcy because they have no health care or are under-insured for the health care they need. True national security demands a healthy citizenry. Thank you for attending carefully to universal health care for all Americans.
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| Carolyn | |
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| Sy Solomon | CA |
It's about Time!
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| Deborah Samuels | OR |
All of my life I have wanted a national healh care system, but unfortunately, I still don't believe it is ever going to happen, because the wealthy and entitled people who are running this country don't care about working folks. I am middle income, but I am single and self-employed. While I was working for hospitals and community home health as a nurse and therapist, I had benefits that provided health care. As a self-employed therapist, when my COBRA ran out, I had to fight tooth and nail for health insurance - because I had a few minor health problems that caused three different insurers to reject me. Now I have insurance, but my deductible is 2550 per year. This high deductible keeps me from getting some services that I really need but can't afford. And yet, I pay $329 per month for this privilege! A hard-working and long-time contributing member of society should be able to get adequate health care without so much trouble and expense! Please sign this bill into law!
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| Johnnie Harris | MI |
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| Leatha Goldsmith | TX |
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| Nick Collins | NC |
As a future physician, I hope to see a national health care system by the time I begin practicing medicine!
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| Bobbi N | NY |
PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN FOR EVERYONES SAKE
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| Anais Woodard | CT |
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| Lisa Holmes | TX |
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| Terry Kepler | PA |
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| Carol Kepler | PA |
We need it.
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| Larry Livermore Sr | PA |
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| Tina Caraway | PA |
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| Robert Recht | MO |
Health insurance companies are dangerous to your health. They are the chief opponents of nat'l, single payer healthcare. We must expose them at all cost. They are blocking congress with all their power. They are the real enemy of nat'l healthcare.We must use every tool we have to defeat them and our goal will be achieved.
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| Peter Coffin | MA |
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| Melanie Harrison | VA |
God speed to this movement! We shouldn't go another day where 50 million Americans have no health insurance. And we can budget $450 billion for defense spending? Wake up US Congress!!!
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| Anne Emmett | OR |
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| Sue Billet | OR |
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| Neill Dumont | VA |
I am encouraged that there is a growing impetus towards single-payer universal health care and encourage you to support it.
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| Sally Crowe | FL |
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