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Kudos to Mrs. Knight for helping people understand why the system has do to change.
The rampant greed that is causing health costs to climb at double digit rates year after year can not go unchecked or it will simply bankrupt us all. We have no children left at home but our health coverage is $14,000 per year and the insurance company is gifted at avoiding paying for anything.
Something has to change and fast!
It really ticks me off when Republicans indiscriminately pull out the "socialized medicine" label to oppose any meaningful reform of the broken, dysfunctional insurance system in this country. I don't care if it's "socialized" or not, I care if people can get the health care they need without going bankrupt.
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Even if someones life is hanging in the balance or their livlihood the insurance giants do not care. They ony care about the bottom line. The opponents of a healthcare system that works have attached a stigmatized word of socialism to a different healthcare system.
That is so you can feel like a socialist if you want to live longer like people in Japan, Canada, Switzwerland or Sweden to name a few. These countries also enjoy lower birth deaths than does the USA.
What does a socialist feel like. do they feel like somone who builds a road for the people. or a school or a hospital. All of these are for our good but we cannot have a healthcare system that works.
I feel really bad this family cannot do what they would like in our free country, but it is not really free when the insurance companies are dictating who they will help and how much they will help.
We are smart enough to build a new system so things like this do not happen on a regular basis.