Why don't we poll the 43 million uninsured Americans and ask them if we have the greatest healthcare

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

in the world. Gee, I wonder what they would think. And this group is made up of the unemployed, the underemployed, the recently laid off and people you know who are too embarrassed to talk about it.

Complacent America - you are one catastrophic disease away from bankruptcy and total ruin because:

you will get sick
you will lose your job
you will lose your benefits
you will lose your savings
you will lose your house

And you could get those test results tomorrow.

Sleep well.

[Double T]

1. Universal Health Care for ALL American citizens paid for by cuts...........

in pentagon, Iraq 'war' and dhs spending.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Amen!

[AZBlue]

8. Don't forget repealing the tax cuts for the rich!

That will go a long way to paying for healthcare!

[liberal N proud]

2. It is the best health care

that money can buy anyway. If you have the money, you have the health care, otherwise, you don't count according to those who have the money.

[TahitiNut]

6. In what other country can a kid grow up dreaming ...

... to own a doctor? :dunce:

[Preening Fop]

3. 46.3 Million units without health insurance as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau 2005

Obviously, a rather pathetic unhealthy society.

[TahitiNut]

5. Well, that number wouldn't go up if ....

... we died at faster rates. I guess that must prove us uninsured Americans are getting good health care. After all, if the number of uninsured is going up faster than the number of insured, it must mean being uninsured is better, right?

:dunce: :headbang:

Oh... wait. The number is going down? OK. Good. The problem is solving itself. We're dying off. When all us uninsured die off, it'll prove the U.S. health care is the bestest. Kewl.

:banghead:


I think we're missing a hugh foreign trade opportunity. We should sell off all our uninsured cadavers to Cuba's medical schools!

:crazy:

[AZBlue]

7. We could start with my aging mom who has no healthcare, but

the subject will upset her too much and start her ulcer bothering her...for which she has no prescription.

I think that's answer enough.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Or, why can't we just make sure that the adults in the group get voting

rights that won't get taken away from them?

[PA Democrat]

10. How many more millions are under-insured

or will be cheated out of appropriate health care by greedy insurance company executives who have decided that their profits are more important than YOUR health?

[Hidden Stillness]

11. Most are Cut Out Completely

The issue here is not only the prohibitive cost, which either drives people to bankruptcy and ruin, or makes it impossible to get the surgery or medicine, so they just suffer for the rest f their lives, as if they were no different anymore from a wild animal in the woods--no care, no treatment--but also the level of skill of the care they get, itself. There was a story recently, (covered really well on Nancy Grace), about a woman in Los Angeles who went to the only hospital in a very poor area, King-(Something; can't remember), but who was left to die on the floor, bleeding, as workers ignored her. Also, the many millions, myself among them, who never go to a dentist anymore because they can't afford to, and so they get no care. Things like this make you realize the greater part of the problem, and that is not that people are getting good care and then going into debt, but that most of them are cut out of the system entirely, and either get nothing, or sub-standard care. As a matter of fact, I think the much more accurate way to study the kind of health care that Americans get, is not to study the top-level of services, as if that is what most get, but to study what the level of second- or third-rate care is, as that is what most of the non-rich actually deal with.

Democrats, and not just the Presidential candidates, but all of them, should emphasize the real-world experience of the non-rich American people a little more: not "stem-cell research" which most will never benefit from because we don't have the money, but getting, for example, some more free neighborhood clinics and fairs, with competent, qualified people at them. For an increasing number of Americans, the words "health care" themselves, are just some distant, rich capitalist's description of something, but only a mirage or illusion to us.

[Theres-a]

12. Uninured,checking in

Furthermore,I was forced ito bankruptcy 5 years ago,due to hospital bills,and an inability to work.I probably won't go see Sicko,I have lived it.

[Greyhound]

13. We don't even have the best system for those that DO have insurance. n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

14. A very high figure of the personal bankruptcies in this country are due to medical debts

Unlike the rest of the industrialized, western world. Other people who are victims in our system employer healthcare system are: the self- employed, small business groups that get sick members, independent contractors, the group just out of college, and the fifty year olds who just got laid off or didn't get hired due to age discrimnation which they can't prove.

Our system sucks.

edited for spelling as usual

[Spacemom]

15. Another of the 43 million here

No Insurance. And since I have diabetes, but can't afford care, I can look forward to a shortened life span, preceded by blindness, kidney failure and amputation. Yup, greatest health care in the world. :eyes: