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For the millions of Americans without heath insurance, every day presents a danger. What if you get sick? This is one American's story...
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22 responses // Uninsured in America

  • This is a really great topic! I haven't had health care for about 7 years now and even when I broke my wrist, it was hard for us to go to the emergency room, despite the severe pain. My mom is uninsured and has lethally high blood pressure and shooting pains through her chest and arm often. She can't do anything about it. It's scary.
    cmhuguenard
  • Every human deserves full health care.

    It is the only decent choice.
    It is the only moral choice.
    mikeywally
  • I think the whole is issue UNDER addressed. Don't get me started with Medicare Part D GAP....
    CharlieG
  • I'm confused... the original version of this story is ten times better. What happened? Here's the link to the much better original:
    http://current.com/items/88339151_uninsured_in_america_...
    gstein08
  • Isn't it the government's fundamental job to take care of us?
    littlesparrow
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  • Another well done pod, Jonathan.
    mikeygleason
  • Great piece... nice shots...there are so many of these stories but each one is more powerful than spouting off numbers of how many people are uninsured.
    lagan
  • This is what we shouldn't do... Take away from people who have earned more money ("upper class")

    I believe there should be help for people with very outragous payments like this lady but right now the United States can't do that.

    We spend too much money on WAR
    War in the middle east
    War on drugs... etc

    Why not take those billions of dollars and use it for people like this who need help?

    Minor things should be paid out of the peoples pockets, but huge things like Cancer, HIV, and other illnesses that cost a lot of money for testing, operations, and treatments should be covered by the government. This should only happen for people who are lower/middle class citzens in need and do not have insurance. Creating an emergancy government insurance for people who aren't making a lot of money...

    Sounds easy enough. So why hasn't it happened?
    ebaana
  • Heath care, health care. Yes, this pod saddens and enrages me.

    I think I might put my money into savings instead of insurance. It seems many procedures aren't covered anyway. At least if I don't need it, I will have created a small nest egg.

    Until then, waiting for a change and wanting to do more.
    AkiraChevelle
  • Thank you current. Can you provide us more stats about the unisured population ands what is out there as ssolutions or point us that way?
    nwintroub
  • http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
    we need to help one another with health-care and find a solution. in the mean time, obama wants universal health-care. he is the final answer and solution to the health-care crisis.
    jtap
  • Let's hope so. In the mean-time, I'm paying $150 for my migraine meds. They don't make a generic, even though several versions of the med have been out since 1995 (or sooner...that's when I started taking them).

    Craziness.
    AkiraChevelle
  • Nice work. As someone who has been rejected from three major healthcare providers for having Celiac Disease - No Wheat- , I feel especially strong about the need to cover EVERYONE! Our current system is not only broken. It's corrupt, and embarrassing.
    benjaminV
  • I'm an R.N. and my prescription drug plan does not provide full coverage for my medications and stated in a letter that they do not cover maintenance medications the same as they do short term meds. I myself take maintenance meds. It seems that health insurance will only cover the healthy. Many chronic conditions if not treated lead to multiple hospital visits, and long term sequelae. Diabetics need insulin daily, they need to check their blood sugar mulitple times a day, diabetes if uncontrolled leads to chronic infections, kidney failure, heart disease, and death. It is more costly for our government to not treat those with chronic illness. It is more costly to not treat the sick in the long term, not only in terms of medical expenses but also with regard to productivity.
    nellypepper
  • I worked as a medicaid eligibility case worker for many years. Then, I worked for a company that finds third party resources to collect money for doctors and hospitals to pay the bills for patients who don't have insurance. I can't see how universal healthcare could cost more than the extremely broken system we now have. Here's a clue for the activists out there. Medicaid masquerades as health insurance. It's real purpose is to insure that doctors will get paid. Is it just me, or is everything in this country a.... backwards?
    caroljwj
  • ebaana.....the problem is....the people who you refer to as the people who earned more money, or upper class people, are not necessarily the people who added the most value to society. We have the people who really work and we have the paper shufflers. Who is it that really sacrifices the most to add the value to our society and who is it that are more eloquent speakers or the prettiest or the tallest people?

    What we have now is, the people who really sacrifice to make a contribution to our society, may not be the most wealthy, but they may be the people who need the medical care the most, and they turn out to be the people who the paper shufflers decide don't get the medical care.

    We spend more money supporting the administration of the process that denies us care, then it would cost to just provide the care. Its only totally pragmatic.
    cadsuch
  • i agree with mikeywally
    dchild000
  • she said those pills where like gold well please let us help you and give you some free drugs!!!!!
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  • The healthcare system in the U.S. is a wreck. The thought of socialized healthcare scares a lot of politicians, especially those who are getting money from drug company lobbyists. Even in Obama is elected, I don't think he could get a universal healthcare package passed.
    There is so much wrong with the system now it's scary to think about how long a restructuring of the whole system would take, because that's going to be the only way to fix it. And if a universal healthcare plan was put into place, the years of political wrangling and debates to make it profitable is beyond my lifetime.
    Stussey
  • Many politicians try to scare us by saying that universal healthcare is a bad idea that doesn't work anywhere - "Canada's system doesn't work, UK's system doesn't work, etc...so why should we adopt something that doesn't work?" It's obvious, by their statements that these people are beholden to something other than the desire to help the American people (drug companies, insurance companies, etc). Their rhetoric selfishly suggests that we don't even bother trying to come up with a better system. Ridiculous. I am a proponant of universal healthcare; however, if we think that existing systems around the world aren't adequete enough for ourselves, we have PLENTY of educated people in this country who could analyze those systems and come up with updated plans to fit our needs! The preamble of the Consitution urges that we should promote the general welfare to ourselves and the generations of Americans to come. Forcing some people to bankrupt themselves in order to pay for necessary medical treatment inherently goes against that statement.
    PhiStu

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