These stories come from the real people who live with a broken health care system. Some have health insurance and some do not. Many of these stories suggest potential solutions* that lead to quality, affordable health care we can count on. One thing we all agree on is that the we cannot trust the insurance industry to fix themselves. To learn more about what Health Care for America Now stands for read our Statement of Common Purpose.
We wanted to give you a chance to speak for yourself, in your own voice, about the need for Health Care for America Now. Do you have something to say? Tell us your story.
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Springfield, MO
I am 54 years old, and a political moderate. I have worked my whole life, usually at more than one job. My wife has done the same. We have no children, thankfully. My longtime technical job recently moved to Chicago, and I am now unemployed. The company was good enough to give me two months' severance, but only one month of paid medical insurance. I have priced private insurance, and am not willing to pay the huge premiums charged for even high deductible/low coverage plans. I have money in the bank and will use it, if necessary, to pay a bankruptcy attorney. We own our home outright, and it is going to remain that way. That is my beef with the political and economic right wing. The left is another. I have watched as my hard-earned income is used to pay for free medical insurance(?) for people whose only contribution is getting knocked up out of wedlock. More of my money is used to cover people who can get a doctor to proclaim them "disabled". I know many of these people deserve the coverage, but I know personally some who do not. To make the system fair, take the right to medical coverage out of the hands of unreliable corporations and insurance companies, and give working people the same right to government coverage as those on welfare and disability. I can't imagine that being any more expensive than paying for my own insurance and paying taxes to cover millions of others at the same time.
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