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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Edward
San Jose, CA
I am 73 and retired working in my second career as shop owner. My wife and I have full medical coverage including the payment of Medicare annual fees through her company, Pacific Telephone from which she retired as a program engineer in 1991. We also have full dental allowance of $2000 per person. I retired from IBM in 1996. Were we dependant upon that loser we would be paying $400 per month per person for equivalent care (with no dental). We relied upon our older larger corporate beings to supply health insurance as part of a package for decades. They could not continue with the burden. When IBM stumbled the medical care was the first to go. The Fed has been riding upon the shoulders of the employers so long that even they have to give up. Whole cities (Novato, CA) are going bankrupt trying to pay health benefits for their Police and Fire Departments. The great Taker, the Federal Government, has to give back now and do some long needed regulation of the insurance and health care industries.
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