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| Kathryn Sawyer | CA |
Please care about all people. All people have worth and deserve to be treated medically when needed.
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| Lynne Stevens | FL |
I feel that any successful movement must start at the county level and move up. I live in Putnam County Florida. A banner and some petitions should get us started. Is there a Florida co-ordinator?
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| Judith B Fisher | OR |
The time has come for us all to unite and get this valuable HR-676 Health Care legislation passed. I do not comprehend how anyone who is as responsible a representative , as you have been on many other issues, could vote against this bill for real Health Care.(Nor do I understand how any Democrat who r3epresents this state
could be against this bill).It will bring Health Care to ALL (not Insurance profits for some). Why would any one who lives in this country and who still has the priviledge of a decent Gov't
health care plan available to them- deny access to it to millions of their countrymen.!?? It does not make sense. Health care really is NOT a political issue-it is about humanity.. The time has come for you to also step forward and join all the others in Congress now who support this bill.I hope you will join us in this very,very, important campaign to pass this bill.Your support will make such a real difference --a really big
difference. We are counting on you!
Most Sincerely,
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| Al Wicklund | IA |
We need doctors to believe in there patients. To much money being spent by the individual only to
see the doctor 8 minutes and still not getting problem resolved. I believe this has alot to do with insurance companies tying the hands of the doctors and or some doctors that do not care but want a paycheck. Enough is enough,this nightmare
has to stop!!
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| Charles Floyd | NC |
I am delighted to discover Health Care Now and their commitment to the removal of the health insurance companies and drug companies from the health care equation. The current system is broken, and immoral, with the insurance companies actively contributing to deaths and anguish to the citizens of our country, all for the benefit of a few executives and shareholders. My wife and I are among the 50 million without healthcare. I have a preexisting condition, for which Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina effectively denies me coverage by requiring $1200 per month in premiums and refusing to cover the condition for the first year. This is of course, outrageously unaffordable.
Thank you for your efforts!
Charles Floyd
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| k.e. stallard | TX |
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| Min Kwak | DC |
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| Lisa Morell | CT |
I work in the healthcare industry, and our system is a disgrace. Hard working Americans who have contributed to the tax-base of this country all their lives, are thrown under the bus when they find themselves diagnosed with a chronic illness. Our government considers those with chronic illness nothing more than a liability; you are now nothing more than a “pre-existing condition”, and you will now be soaked for everything you ever worked for. The push for health care coverage in this country is for the young and healthy only……what a scam. God Bless Americia.
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| cindy carl | PA |
i am a diabetic and i work 40 hours a week but still i can't afford health insurance 350 amonth is to much for me to pay out.
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| Leanne Russell | OR |
Our current Healthcare system is a disgrace and a disaster. We all deserve to have quality, affordable healthcare equal to what members of Congress have. Right now my Blue Cross health insurence cost me $559 per month- up from $444 last year and I still have to pay for almost everything because I am relatively healthy!!! This system is outragously unfair and has to go!!!
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| amanda dalton | MD |
I am homeless. I am seeking psychiatric treatment. I write this from a friends place. I also have seizures and migraines. My psychiatrist says that I need a full neurological work-up including MRI and other tests. The cost would be in excess of $7000 just for a work up. This is just to determine my issues, not even treatment. I am homeless. If I had $7000 it would go to shelter first, then to an auto for work, then for food. Healthcare should be a right. How can I join the workforce and live independently if I can't even find out why I have seizures?
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| Stephen Hennessey | WA |
I work on the billing system for 2 major hospitals, billing over $2Billion a year. This system is a mess, and uviversal healthcare is the solution.
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| Michael Chapman | TN |
I am a registered nurse and we need universal health care now.
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| Thomas Thomas | CA |
We must have this now!
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| Amanda Baker | KY |
everyone should be able to go seek medical help if and when they may need it.
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| Susan Moscariello | MA |
I am disgusted by this healthcare system. Even having insurance that is outrageously expensive doesn't guarantee access to the best medications for the condition. The insurance companies dictate what meds are allowed. You must try lesser, ineffective medications before they cover the effective meds and waste time and money and cause suffering. It is dangerous; un-American; and against everything we believe in in the U.S. People die because they can't afford care. A complete new Universal Health care plan, not tied to the employer, is urgent. Where the patient and doctor decide what medicines are correct to which the patient responds well. These gigantic co-pays are prohibitive and people have to choose between which meds they take or what food they buy. It's absolutely outrageous and I am enraged over this. I know people, children, who can't take the appropriate medicines because the insurance company says no and the cost is prohibitive (read Highway robbery").
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| Eden Fitzgerald | MN |
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| Wendy C. Froggatt | RI |
We need to do something soon!! The health insurance companies are out of control!
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| Mariza Morin | TX |
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| kendal platt | AZ |
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| Stephan Schreuder | AL |
Free health for all life breeds love and more life. It is the proper human thing to do.
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| Hanny Shanar | TX |
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| Danielle Greene | VA |
Health care around the world, but not the U.S., is a basic human right. Health care providers get paid decently, but not extravagantly, and health INSURANCE is a government-provided benefit, paid for by general taxes, not ridiculous "premiums".
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| Jill Woods | MO |
I am currently uninsured. I feel that its a basic human right to have healthcare. Its shameful that in the richest country in the world people are dyeing because they are poor. We have got to take control of our country and help our people.
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| Carol Weissman | CA |
Shame! Shame! Shame!
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| Ricki Becker | CA |
My husband got laid off in April and our largest expense is COBRA! But, we are scared to live without it! He can not find work (in the building business) that would supply health care and I have MS, so we can bot do without.
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| thom roman | NV |
The US health care system is competely acceptible...for vast profits, for exploitation of the citizens so the multi mega rich pharmaceutical companies get richer every minute while people are dying for lack of medical treatments. The present Health care US system, the corporate giants, are a criminal monopoly dictating who should live and who should die. Can't Pay Health Insurance, then Die > is the American way, and what else is better than the American Way of life......that is, if you can afford it. The American Health Care system is not only a shameful sham, it is criminal.
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| Cindy Kruger | ND |
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| Sandra R. Goulart | CA |
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| Colleen Austin | MN |
I work in the healthcare industry. I previously worked in the ER til I got hurt on the job, not only did they deny me work comp, they are calling me a liar, and then I was doing homehealth and got hurt and they denied me because I have a previous claim for a completely different injury. I cannot believe that I cannot get affordable health care, even though I was a health care worker and now am earning about minimum wage, with my bills same as before, yet paying twice as much for health insurance, being on my husbands plan. Yes, I have coverage, but at 50 copays for medications and having seven meds every month, well it still costs twice as much for the copays as it does for the premiums. It is rediculous and I will move out of the country and become a citizen in another nation, with national healthcare, if it comes to that. France and Norway are looking pretty good. I will still vote while I am here, but only for those running who support national health care.
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| Elizabeth Ortlieb | TN |
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| Wendy Busch | WA |
As an Occupational Therapist, I recognize the need for reform. The single payor system makes sense and takes the manipulation out of for-profit, long term care settings. There is too much waste and too much opportunity for manipulation of RUG Levels, patients and healthcare workers deserve better!
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| Evelyn Buff | MD |
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| Liliana Badd | NV |
Unacceptable
The healthcare situation in US is unacceptable.
Those with pre-existing conditions are penalized, they are condemned to a slow death because the health insurance companies want to ensure only the healthy, the pre-existing conditions are the parias, this is unacceptable.
It is unacceptable to get DENIED to health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
It is unacceptable that lots of employers refuse to have group health insurance for their employees.
The individual health insurance plans are a ripp off or so expensive making them prohibitive. From there we find the health insurance abusers - fake health insurance plans by fake companies, crooks, who abuse the elder and those with pre-existing conditions or those without money to pay a premium, or the unemployed, crooks that operate in all freedom, unpunished.
It is unacceptable to get to file bankruptcy for not being able to pay the medical bills.
Health Insurance for everybody is a HUMAN RIGHT.
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| lauren guy | CA |
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| Joe Stevens | CA |
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| Robert Schwartz | OH |
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| Tim Schooler | KY |
Single payer healthcare is essential for the future well-being of the American people.
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| Joseph Soel | NY |
Nursing student .... who has no health care.... oh the irony. Pass this bill people are dying waiting for it.
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| chrisy relitz | FL |
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| Amber Hartley | WV |
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| Angie Haught | WV |
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| Pamela DeBarr | WV |
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| brenda smith | WV |
Universal Health Care NOW
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| Megan Murphy | CA |
If the United States is going to call itself the greatest nation in the world, then it should offer the greatest health care to ALL of its citizens. It is pathetic that nearly 50 million people do not have health care in this so-called "Great Nation". We should be ashamed of ourselves.
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| Joan Lafontaine | MN |
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| J DERRICK | FL |
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| Evan Waltzer | NJ |
I think it is a shame that the most powerful country in the world is the only major industrial nation not to have a universal healthcare system. America is supposed to be the shining light of the world not a backward land full of the greedy, apathetic and scared. Universal healthcare is the first step of many in improving America into the role model for the world that it ought to be.
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| Joshua Zimmerman | NJ |
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| Jennifer Beckman | CA |
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| Kassidy Heal | CA |
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| Laurie Waltzer | NJ |
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| Frank Waltzer | NJ |
As a 55 year old male who was let go from a major financial services firm last year, at the age of 54_1/2, after more than 25 years of service, I have faced a number of interesting challenges. Because I was not yet 55 at the time, I faced the option of continuing my company's Health care plan at a monthly cost to me of $1400.00 or going with COBRA to continue my plan at a cost of $1200.00 per month. Neither option was particularly appealing from a financial perspective. Luckily, my wife had been working at a local retail chain store long enough to qualify for health coverage for our family of four. Unfortunately, she was receiving minimum wage at that store and sadly the companies plan has a very marginal prescription drug program. Since my wife and I have a number of medical conditions, we are paying about $1000.00 a month out-of-pocket for prescription drugs alone. We will be okay, but only because I religiously put money into my 401k plan since 1982. However, I am not particularly thrilled with having to tap my retirement funds at the age of 55 so that I can keep my house, pay for living and medical expenses and a college education for my sons. This is the plight that people are facing when trying to support a family on middle class wages with inadequate health coverage. It really is a shame that in this, the most advanced industrialized country in the world, that people need to make choices between food, shelter, education and health care.
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| katherine haidary | CA |
I was working overseas for the past 20 years. I had health insurance there. On returning to the U.S. I was astonished to find that I am unable to get any kind of health care here at all because I have a pre-existing condition. I think healthcare should be available to all.
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| Glenn Spiczak | WI |
Let's do it!
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| Silvia Stoyanova | NJ |
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| Kathy Baker | AR |
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| Catherine Riddle | VA |
So many Americans need this, I'm one of the millions without health insurance.
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| Niki McGlathery | WY |
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| Dana Ericson | IN |
We desperately need an complete revision of how our health care needs are provided. A single payer solution is the only cost effective and humane solution.
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| John (Jack) H Herbert | OR |
We all need to get together with as much effort as it takes to arouse our fellow citizens to get good single-payer, universal health care coverage in this country. The movement has chosen HR 676, so let's push it until we get it.
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| Katherine Melvin | ME |
It is time we started taking care of our people!
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| Lynn Rabin | CA |
This bill is long overdue. When I was getting my MA in Health Ed. in 1993, the uninsured in this country numbered 36,000,000. We need to rectify this situation as we lag far behind the rest of the industrialized world on this issue.
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| Eugene Corbett | CA |
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| Danielle Kitchel | OR |
We are dying because we can't afford healthcare, yet we spend billions of dollars on wars. It is our national shame.
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| Nina Hunt | FL |
Please make healthcare a reality for all people in the U.S.!
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| George Bain | TX |
all for national health care 100%.
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| margaret beauchesne | ME |
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| Rick Lomando | FL |
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| Caprice Quashie | PA |
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| Grace Gross | TX |
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| Danalyn Robinson | GA |
Our healthcare system is a mess. Probably the worst of all the developed countries.
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| Chris Bernard | MN |
My wife had chest pains and debated whether her insurance company covered her. She decided to go to the emergency room. We are lucky she did. The trip prevented a major heart attack. Everyone should be able to seek care and not be concerned whether the insurance company will deny the charge.
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| David duff | PA |
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| Morgan Smith | WA |
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| Patricia Cistrunk | MS |
I agree with everything that you'll is saying we as americans we all need afforadable health care,and what about the health care companies will not insure people because they don't have a checking account or a saving account or a major credit card.The companies that employ men and women but they insure that individual that works for them but they don't give that individual the options to add his or her family, telling them that is the company rule but he are she can find some outside insurance keep it for 30days drop it and then they will insure the family members this is just wrong and i feel we should not only target out government but i feel we should target the insurance companies that treat people this way and industries that treat there employees this way when it will be coming out of there pockets.
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| Maryann Waite | NY |
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| Polly Reed | PA |
I would like to see each Pennsylavania Representative and Senator on the list of co- sponsors of this bill.
It is time do take care of the the horrible health care system in our country. This bill represents a sensible replacement though I am sure the insurance lobby will protest loudly.
They are part of the problem that got us in the situation and it is time we stopped being controlled by them.
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| Timothy Ohliger | RI |
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| Wendy Horgan | FL |
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| Sean Dougherty | NY |
I am very close to leaving the U.S. if we can't fix simple problems like this, it is becoming more and more evident that the top 1% is controlling a majority of this nation's wealth...I remember in history class learning about the bourgeoisie (sp?) and that when the exact same financial climate occurred in France, all hell broke loose, I hope it doesn't come to that but at least it would show American's still actually care about America
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| Jeff Pinter | NV |
The next president needs to get this solved fast!!!
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| Charlotte Ibarra | CA |
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| Nicholas Davenport | MI |
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| Robert Fleury | NM |
They insurance companys have our legeslatures pass laws that benifet there own entrests without consern for the american people We must take our country back!!
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| Kevin Mohan | FL |
I'm lucky enough to have health care through my work, but I hope this gives those less fortunate the same opportinity to what I call quality of life . . .
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| Catherine Beitel | NJ |
As the mother of five sons, all of them ineligible for insurance due to their ages and one with a "preexisting condition", a congenital birth defect called spina bifida, this is issue affects me on a deeply personal level. As a health care worker in a nursing home, it affects me as a witness to the corruption and sickening level to which health care has sunk. As one of the richest nations in the world, it is not only incumbent on the health care system to make health care available to all of us citizens, it's a basic human right without question or explanation. Do it.
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| Lindsey Helden | NC |
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| Katrina Flaws | NC |
I have three children who I stay at home with and homeschool, we are self-employed and have no medical insurance. It would be such a blessing to have some type of medical coverage where we do not fall into the "gap" of making $30 a month too much to get Medicaid or Health Choice, yet not earning enough to buy a personal PPO for $400 a month plus co-pays. We aren't rich, but having any type of medical services done in the family puts a bind in the regular household living budget, especially now with gas prices.
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| Rachel Bredeson | MN |
I am 25 years old and have type 1 diabetes and depression. I work 40 hours a week and can't get insurance from my employer until October. And of course I make "too much" to qualify for any assistance programs. I have to choose what is more important; meds, doctor visits, food, or a roof over my head! I have been trying to get 2 of my meds and getting a deal from the pharmacy they will still cost me almost $800 for a months supply! That doesn't even include my three types of insulin, test strips and syringes I need for my diabetes. How am I supposed to survive like this!? We NEED health care coverage.
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| Sarah Grau | AZ |
I cannot believe how angry I was after watching Sicko. I personally think that anyone who doesn't want universal healthcare, doesn't have to take it. They can continue to pay for insurance and be denied or pay out of pocket. But for the rest of us reasonable citizens, we realize that a society is judged by how they treat the least among us. And our society is sociopathic.
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| Elizabeth Hale | PA |
Please provide healthcare (as Canada and Europe does) to all Americans without charge. We need to get rid of insurance companies and just provide the best healthcare in the world to our citizens no matter what their financial status is. Please do not let one more person die because they can't afford the medical care they need. If it was someone you love, you would feel the same way I do. There is no price you can put on a life. I would gladly pay extra taxes to know that myself and all those I love and cherish will have the help they need, when it happens. And, it will happen to every person alive sometime in their life. Thank you so much. Nothing, is more important! Nothing.
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| Conrad Geller | NY |
Universal health care is long overdue. This country needs to get in step with other advanced countries in this matter.
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| Aaron Stark | MI |
Despite two working adults in my family with "good" employee-based insurance benefits, we still pay hundreds of dollars per month in co-pays to deal with medication costs for my wife's chronic illness. To join the civilized world, we need a single-payer health care system in the U.S. Please support and pass HR 676.
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| Antonio La Creta | AZ |
Military 4+ yrs. Worked nearly 50. Retired and on MEDICARE(It should be for all!).
Paying nearly $5,000.00/ year for my wife's under-insurance (It is for catastrophic purposes with high deductibles and copays). It is a short term, so will not be able to obtain one due to preexisting. My income barely exceeds the poverty level set by welfare programs as set by my state/county. So we are S.O.L. unless this bill passes!
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| terry agee | TX |
when are the american people going to wake up and understand we have the power to make this happen. we have been sitting back being comfortable and content too long, which is what our so called representatives want....
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| teresa agee | AR |
as an lpn i have seen 1st hand what our healthcare system does to those without. i have health insurance but can't feel protected after seeing sicko.
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| greg agee | AR |
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| Stacy Bright | WA |
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| Anita Melikov | TX |
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| Norm and Sherry Braaten | ND |
We ALL deserve the same health care as our Congressmen have. We need to eliminate the insurance companies that are in it for profit and greed.
Health care is the big issue for us in the '08 election.
Medicare needs to be expanded to ALL Americans!
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| Michael Reynolds | OH |
I would most definetally vote and support for this.
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| carolyn myers MD | FL |
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| Matthew Wilson | VA |
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| Tom Dayeh | TX |
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| Dave Thomas | WA |
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| Evan Hoffman | IN |
I hope it happens!
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| Sam Rao | CA |
There has to be a cap applied on the incomes of health care professionals. 50% of every doctor's time should be allocated to treat free for uninsured patients. Medicine is not a business, it is a service. Medicine is not for money minded people. Guaranteed medical care is the right of every american, no exceptions.
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| garret bright | CA |
HEALTH CARE 3rd WORLD COUNTRIES AND us NOW!!!!
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| Annette Tefft | MI |
It took America over 100 years to end slavery of Africans, 200 years to stop abusing the aboriginal populations of North America, 30 years to get a clue about global warming, and how long will it take for the representatives of the American people to hear our cries for health care.
It is an embarrassment to all of us that an American citizen can die in anguish and pain, because they can afford health care. HOW MUCH LONGER?
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| Kelly McLain | AL |
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| Stephen Ramnath | FL |
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| Chris Trent | AL |
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| melissa veloz | IN |
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| Sarah Williams | TN |
It is truly a shame what has happened to health care in the wealthist country in the world. Something has to be done to reel in the insurance industry and make them pay claims the way they did when we were children.
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| Timothy Williams | TN |
My brother is dying from auto immune hepitits., he has insurance.Yet this will destroy him financialy. He has worked hard for 30 years to own his house and he owes no one. His medical deductables will ruin this hard working man. he has been denied disability. He is to sick to work.
My niegbor has cancer and is insured,however she to will be ruined financially.Her cancer is terminal.What good does it due her husband for the bank or hospital to own thier home. They cant pay the deductables either. The American dream is ruined if you become ill.
Thanks for caring,
Sincerely,
Tim J. Williams
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| Marcus Rein | CA |
Our country is failing its citizens. No longer should anybody be turned away from medicine in our country in today's America. That is unacceptable and we need to cut our ties with the insurance behemoths that run our health.
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| Manny Treibwasser | PA |
Everyone Deserves Health Care Not Just The wealthly
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| Walter Keppard Jr. | PA |
I am a hard working forty year old in good health making a fair wage , but have no health insurance and cannot afford any. We live in the greatest country in the world! Or do we? Or is that resevered for only a select few?
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| Tatiana Gaalova | NC |
I cannot afford health insurance, so I have to pay over $200 a month out of pocket for the prescriptions I need. In Canada or Europe I wouldn't have to work constantly to afford my medications. Why can't it be so simple in the United States?
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| Allan Havers | TX |
It's about time all American deserve medical services at a affordable cost. it is disgusting the profits that the Insurance company make at the cost to the poor and needy
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| sean bishop | AL |
healthcare is a human right, not a privilege of the rich!!!
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| Rita Britton | NC |
Our taxes are liberally dispensed to fund our military in fighting wars off-shore. Our priority should be to allocate our hard-earned taxes to our own health, welfare and education first and foremost. Somehow the picture is all askew. Millions are unable to afford even a single visit to a doctor let alone be treated for a serious illness. Exclusivity seems to prevail in this country and leaves an ugly impression of us in the international community. How is it possible that countries with far less resources are able to offer great health care to their own. I can not understand how some of our own argue that they do not want to pay for other's bad behavior or unfortunate illnesses. We have all seen our loved ones, friends, co-workers and neighbors in critical situations at one point or another in our lives. Car accidents, cancer, heart ailments, birth defects and genetics are far more common than aids and drug abuse. What happened to "We the People... united in a common cause of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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| Ben Litton | FL |
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| Jeanmarie Steckler | FL |
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| Penny Hornsby | TX |
every industrial nation in the world has universal healthcare. we can get all the good/bad information in regards to theirs to develope our own. it is time. healthcare is a right. our country would flourish once the stressful burden of worry caused by the disgusting healthcare costs are lifted from the shoulders of the American worker. our work force will be healthier and thus more productive. it is time. it is actually well past time but now will do.
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| Allen Cable | CO |
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| Jeff Feuer | MI |
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| Sarah Betcher | VA |
!!No One should have to go without healthcare!!
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| Suzy Patron | WI |
People should be healthy!
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| Cristin Richter | WI |
Everyone had the right to be healthy and LIVE!!!
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| Robin Middleman | NJ |
Access to healthcare is a civil right.
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| Mark Hibben | ME |
Single Payer Healthcare Now for all Americans!
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| Jessica Taylor | OH |
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power - the world will know peace!"
~Jimi Hendrix
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| Iris Parsons | NC |
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| Carolyn Decasse | MA |
Single-payer universal health care is needed now!
I have personally seen enough decline in our health care system. We need an independent agency to oversee one system that provides the same and equal health care for all. The government needs to pay the bill after all it is our taxes that supports it. If the government had to pay it would behoove them to take better care of its residents. According to the WHO we rank at the bottom of the list for the health care that is provided to its people yet we are the most expensive. That in itself should make it perfectly clear that for-profit insurance companies are not in the best interest of this country. Everyone needs to take a stand and put their name on a list, don't be afraid!
Carolyn Decasse MLT(ASCP)
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| Colin Buzza | IA |
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| Torri Thomas | WA |
It's about time that the government works for its people, not people working for the government!!!
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| Maya Nitis | IL |
Although this country has little to no tradition of popular referendums, do you think there is anything to the idea of calling for a national referendum on this issue?
Thanks! and Thanks again for your wonderful work!
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| L. Mark Flagg | WI |
Please pressure Congress to pass UHC ASAP.
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| Michael Hutchison | IN |
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| Dana Schultz | PA |
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| Alissa Nutting | NV |
Health Care is a basic human right. Any country that cares about its citizens has an absolute duty to provide it. The greed of insurance companies is killing thousands annually. We cannot sit by and be silent; we must demand the care we are entitled to.
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| Denece Tasca | ID |
Our collective voices must be heard. Fear cannot deter us to speak what we all know to be true and right. Our government wants us to be afraid, sick and in debt.
Raise your heads,look them in the eyes, move your feet and speak up.
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| Brendan Power | AL |
Stop making health care a business. One of the richest nations in the world should not have a population with health comparible to a third world country.
How about instead of pumping money into saving peoples lives 3000 miles away, you try saving the lives of those 3 miles away.
Brendan Power
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| Griselda Vargas | TX |
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| Marie DeSanti | NY |
This country is in need of proper health care to be made available to all individuals in the US. Please pass the HR-676 (non-profit Medicare for All) as soon as possible so that every individual in the US can have health care.
Thank you,
Marie
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| Katy Washburne | WA |
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| Allison Von Mohr | NM |
Our current system isn't working. PLEASE - let's do something!
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| Joyce Marner | IA |
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| vicki fischer | OK |
I've been a single parent for 11 years. without health insurance for 5 years. Been denied coverage by 3 insurance companies, and the oregon health plan. I live on $1,500 a month. have hepatitis C, that was under control when I was on the medication 6 years ago. I'm afraid a major medical amergency could devastate our lives. I hope the system changes soon.
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| sandra terry | NC |
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| Patricia Nigro | FL |
We deserve excellent health care & affordable for everyone- rich & poor.
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| ROBERT RANDO | FL |
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| Andrew Sauber | OH |
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| Sylvia Terpstra | NY |
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| Chuck Watts | OH |
When neighbors look out for each other, America grows stronger. Human dignity demands we have health care for all.
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| angelica rosales | CA |
After watching the movie Sicko it really has opened my eyes to the ugly side of the American health care system and has made me very angry! I suffered a back injury at work in 2006 and having to go through all the evil tactics of the Worker's compensation. I will definatly support HR676 and i've already been talking to friends and family about this bill and they all agree having medical excellent medical coverage for all Americans is what we deserve and are entitled to! We are all going to vote yes on HR676! Look out you greedy insurance companies...Cause we a coming after you!
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| Melissa Lally | OR |
It is time to take profit out of healthcare.
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| Cindy Crampton | WA |
Please pass this bill as soon as possible. My sister has melanoma in her breasts (If she had breast cancer instead of skin cancer she would get coverage)and is unable to get treatment because she is uninsured and her alimony payment from her ex husband is disqualifying her for Medicaid and other services. Our family has been a residents and US citizens for many generations.
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| Lawrence McNabb | NC |
We are the greatest Industrialized Nation in the World and it's pathetic how we spread our "good will" throughout the globe and we can't even take care of our own citizens. We have "sick care" not Health Care and we don't even do sick care that well. A healthy nation is a strong nation.
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| Casey Tyler | MI |
This is the greatest contry in the world with the greatest people in the world. Treat the people the way they deserve.
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| Shirley Patterson | NC |
Everyone needs health care. My husband and I work 40+ hours weekly each. We have one child together and he has 2 kids by a previous marriage. We by law have to keen insurance on his other 2 children and that is $200 per month. I have insurance thu my work which is free, but I can not afford insurance on my husband because that would be an extra $400 per month. I do have insurance on our daughter, but don't know how much longer we can afford to pay for it with the rising prices of gas and groceries. We now have to choose between groceries or health insurance. I guess groceries will win!
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| warren lovett | NC |
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| barbara lovett | NC |
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| Lawrence McNabb | NC |
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| Rebecca McNabb | NC |
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| Art Sage | IL |
My wife can't get insurance, heart attack, brain tumor.
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| Melissa Meyer | IA |
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| Diane Patton | CA |
I would like to see an excellent comprehensive national health care program put in place that would also include alternative health care treatments such as chiropractic, accupuncture, accupressure, homeopathy, ayurvedic and other forms of body work as well as mental health care. Holistic and traditional health care should not be available only to those who can afford it - everyone needs and deserves quality care and excellent health!
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| Christian Phillips | NY |
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| GAVIN BOLEY | CO |
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| Wendy Williams | OK |
I quit a "good" job with benefits because the stress of retaliation from my employer was ruining my health. I was the EEO/ADA Officer for a large county government. After turning in an investigation report in which I sustained an employee's allegations of discrimination, my boss ordered me to change my findings. The order was illegal and violated state and federal laws; consequently, I blew the whistle on him to the elected district attorney and county judge. They did nothing. Six months later, The county commissioners voted to abolish my job. I had tread upon "important" toes. Per our civil service rules, I was given a lateral transfer because I refused to quit. My employer's retaliation continued for the next four years. I lost weight to the point of emaciation, and began experiencing related health issues. I finally reached the point of quitting believing it was the only option I had available to save my life. I could have sued and won at least a few hundred thousand, and kept my job. I didn't want to sue, I just wanted to work. Within a few months, I had exhausted my retirement fund paying for my bills and monthly COBRA payments. It has nearly been five years. I have not been able to find another job and have not had any medical coverage. I lost my home, almost lost my car, and would have been homeless if I hadn't had friends who provided me places to stay for a few months at a time. I have outstanding medical bills with at least half a dozen emergency rooms, I've lost count. I will never be able to pay them, nor would I if I could. I'm an angry woman because of what I'm endured. I've moved nine times during the past two years. Try to get a job when you move an average of every three months. You can't. I'm 53 years old, have a strong family history of cancer from both parents. I haven't seen an OBGYN or had a mammogram for several years. In essence, I'm waiting for the cancer to rear up and die to relieve my miserable life that is devoid of quality. In our current economy and political climate, nobody will hire employees over age 50. I have degrees in finance and a juris doctor. So much for the "American dream." People in this country are losing everything and dropping like flies. We will soon reach a point when the haves no longer have us lowly have-not grunts to do their bidding. I suppose they will outsource the work we have done for them in the past and import workers to perform that which cannot be outsourced. Thank God my grandfather and father who served this country with honor during WWI and WWII did not live to see the shameful disgrace the country for which they fought and loved has become. Funny, our president is on TV right now, it is Independence Day. He's espousing the virtues of our country. What a lying sack of $#!+!
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| Jeanie Darnell | CA |
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| John Darnell | CA |
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| richard whatley | MO |
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| Kristian Bryant | GA |
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| Garrick House | GA |
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| Sandy Longfellow | GA |
We are counting on your help!
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| anthony coladonato | NY |
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| al Ingrassia | NJ |
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| Marie Ingrassia | NJ |
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| maryann ingrassia | NJ |
for me, my family, and my patients, HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE, NOW!
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| monica kehoe | NY |
I am a registered nurse. We need universal health care now in the
United States. I am dedicated to doing what I can to help that happen.
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| Mark Rochon | CA |
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| Greta MacMillan | CT |
I work in an inner city ER in one of the poorest cities in the nation as a social worker. It is disgusting that the US does not have universal health care. It is a racist, bigoted, discriminatory country that does not offer the basics to its residents.
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| Elizabeth Clark | PA |
Not only is it necessary to provide health insurance but also affordable medical care covered entirely by that insurance.
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| shea holliman | KY |
We all need healthcare.
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| Margaret Parks | FL |
I heard about your website through Grit TV on Free Speech TV. Your proposal sounds sensible and compassionate to me.
I am 62 years old without health insurance. I can't afford it even if I could be accepted. I am a breast cancer survivor for over 10 years.
Private insurance companies only exist for profit.
Health insurance shouldn't be a profit driven service. It is a necessity just like food, shelter and human rights.
Thank you for your efforts. I hope your campaign grows and gains recognition.
Sincerely,
Margaret Parks
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| Peg Pollack | CA |
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| Margaret Reges | IA |
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| Susan Mendez | OR |
I think if the government and medical organizations truely believ EVERY ONE is intitled to health care they would really put an effort into a national health care program.
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| Will Riley | GA |
HR 676 lays out a plan to cover every American's healthcare. The fact that so few people know about it is a real tradegy. At the very least, every American deserves to join in on a serious discussion about the future of our health. We need our politicians to spend some more time on this issue. HR 676 is the a great step in that direction.
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| paul golden | MI |
please make this happen
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| patricia donnelly | WA |
For the sake of HUMAN BEINGS in this country it is time -- health care for all.
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| jane burnand | OH |
It can't happen soon enough for me, and millions more...
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| lisa pittman | MS |
In December 2006 I had a nervous breakdown and possibly two mild strokes which left me with blurred vision in the outter side of my right eye. At that time I had health insurance, but the doctors I needed to see were 50 plus miles from my home and then there was the forty dollar co-pay so I was not able to follow through long enough for any diagnosis. I did find out that I have "spots" on my brain which had not previously been there, cysts on my ovaries, and about 60 percent of the required amount of blood in my body. I was not elegible for workers compensation, because the only type of diagnosis I had was mental and that does not qualify for it, I could not get unemployment benefits because illness as a reason for quitting a job disqualified me for that. I have recently been denied Social Security benefits, and the lawyers that I have cannot help me because I am not receiving any type of health care. I need help.
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| Andrew Borakove | NE |
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| Esther Kim | CA |
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| Ana Bui | CA |
We have the right to get excellent health care considering how much we pay on taxes.
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