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Need evident for healthcare
Friday, October 3, 2008 2:39 PM EDT
To the Editor:
America needs a single payer, national healthcare plan, for all its citizens. We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a national healthcare plan.
Forty-five million Americans have no healthcare. Another 50 million are under-insured. Employers and workers can no longer afford to pay insurance for themselves and the uninsured.
Did you know that President Bush and Congress all have national health insurance, and you pay for it?
These are the same people who say, ‘you do not need what they have.’
America needs a single payer, national healthcare plan, for all its citizens. We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a national healthcare plan.
Forty-five million Americans have no healthcare. Another 50 million are under-insured. Employers and workers can no longer afford to pay insurance for themselves and the uninsured.
Did you know that President Bush and Congress all have national health insurance, and you pay for it?
These are the same people who say, ‘you do not need what they have.’
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It’s time right now to join Barack Obama and get a single payer — N.H.C.P. Healthcare is a right for all Americans.
We should study every national healthcare plan, from other nations, then use the best parts for our own plan.
Russ Leser
Gaylord
We should study every national healthcare plan, from other nations, then use the best parts for our own plan.
Russ Leser
Gaylord
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CUTTY wrote on Oct 16, 2008 5:16 PM:
The term "socialized medicine" is not only much maligned, but generally misunderstood by the average American who has been fed a pack of lies by our corporate controlled news media particularly Fox News.
Its a moral travesty when people have to file bankruptcy because they cant pay their medical bills (despite having health insurance with so many deductibles and co pays etc):
Many people are foregoing necessary surgeries and cannot afford to pay for their prescription medications because of the cost of healthcare in this nation.
Despite the cost, despite the fact they our medical system is the most expensive in the industrialized world, the United States does NOT have the best healthcare system around. Our life expectancy ranks only 7th or 8th among the industrialized nations. Our infant mortality rate is one of the highest.
Health care is a civil right and it shouldnt be dependant upon income. There should be certain things in this life which ARENT businesses but professions where concern over a higher good prevails over merely making tons of money. "