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By: melanie

melanie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:26:04 +0000

I can barely think when I hear these selfish, stupid people who oppose health care. Yesterday I saw a clip of Ted Kennedy talking to the Senate, saying he was sickened at the sight of people who have the best insurance in the world and don’t want the taxpayers to have the same. I’m so sorry that your illnesses are made more stressful by a situation that just should not be.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:50:40 +0000

Yes, but the quote of the month has to be “Shame of you! Shame of you!!” I’d like to shout that at the lot of them!

By: Rainy

Rainy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:50:22 +0000

We are one hospital bill away from bankruptcy, even WITH our COBRA benefits. 80/20 coverage is still crippling if you get really sick. :-/

People are really being idiots about this one, and I don’t know where the sudden wave of Stupid came from. I wish they would stop screaming and start listening. I watched this video clip of an Israeli man describing Israel’s system and advocating the public option for Americans as being something positive, and one woman started screaming HEIL HITLER in his face… and then making baby noises.

I was ashamed for her. OF her. Of my fellow Americans.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:43:05 +0000

Say it, girl! I am so fed up with these conservative negative people that don’t even know what they are talking about. I visited a blog yesterday and she was talking about euthanasia. I finally had it and let her know what I thought of her opinion. She was having all these women telling she was so wonderful and I said she didn’t know what she was talking about.

Neither one of my adult children has health benefits and I worry every day.

By: Phoe

Phoe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:47:48 +0000

If I still lived in California I would be buggered. I have several chronic illnesses that require medication and frequent doctor’s visits and without the NHS I don’t know how I’d manage.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:53:30 +0000

We qualified for Medi-Cal most of the time since the kids came along, although two years ago we had a year with no coverage at all for the adults in the family. Scary with a 50 something husband with a family history of heart disease.

Now I have coverage with my new job, but my premium for the two adults is $350 a month. I only make $2400 a month in the first place so this is a huge hit, but still, they can’t take it away. Or can they? We’re still at the mercy of claim denials and recission no matter what. And copays.

I am a huge supporter of Medicare for All. The system already works, we could buy in for less than we’re paying now and all we would have to do would be show up for the doctor with our SS#. No new overhead, doctors can go back to treating people rather than spending half their time fighting with insurance companies, no parent needs to worry if their child is sick enough to go to the doctor.

Why anyone who claims to have any kind of moral compass can think that their neighbor does not deserve to live, I cannot understand. But that’s what it comes down to, for me. They think some of us deserve to die to make sure that not a single dollar of theirs goes to anyone but themselves. I find that immoral.

By: DataGoddess

DataGoddess — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:28:26 +0000

My company doesn’t subsidize my health insurance premiums, so we pay around $200/week, plus the $600 or so a month for our prescriptions. For just the two of us.

I’m boggled when I hear people say there’s nothing wrong with our current system.