Comments on: Health Care for Everyone – All Around the USA http://www.truemajority.org/aggressiveprogressive/?p=489 Get in touch with your inner progressive Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:21:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: K. Stuart http://www.truemajority.org/aggressiveprogressive/?p=489#comment-17066 K. Stuart Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:34:57 +0000 http://www.truemajority.org/aggressiveprogressive/?p=489#comment-17066 I applaud your actions. That being said, the current "reform" bill does very little to extend healthcare to all. It is not much more than a give-away to those very people that you served yesterday. I do agree that it is a start, but, unless we have a strong public option, we are all little better off than now. A medicare buy-in seems to be the topic of late, but medicare still leaves those without gap insurance thousands of dollars in debt from co-pay and deductibles. Personally, I owe several thousand and have not had a serious injury or health crisis. I live on disability and get about $10 a month too much to qualify for medicaid. I have severe OE and need a new knee but I will be unable to pay for that surgery. I am not alone. We must keep fighting for universal care. The time of for profit health insurance is way past its expiration date. I applaud your actions. That being said, the current “reform” bill does very little to extend healthcare to all. It is not much more than a give-away to those very people that you served yesterday. I do agree that it is a start, but, unless we have a strong public option, we are all little better off than now.

A medicare buy-in seems to be the topic of late, but medicare still leaves those without gap insurance thousands of dollars in debt from co-pay and deductibles. Personally, I owe several thousand and have not had a serious injury or health crisis. I live on disability and get about $10 a month too much to qualify for medicaid. I have severe OE and need a new knee but I will be unable to pay for that surgery. I am not alone.

We must keep fighting for universal care. The time of for profit health insurance is way past its expiration date.

]]> By: Gavin http://www.truemajority.org/aggressiveprogressive/?p=489#comment-17052 Gavin Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:51 +0000 http://www.truemajority.org/aggressiveprogressive/?p=489#comment-17052 That's great, but what exactly about the bill before Congress does anything to control costs? That’s great, but what exactly about the bill before Congress does anything to control costs?

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