More Than Half of Americans Put Off Some Kind of Health Care Due to Money Problems

Oh come on you've got to be kidding me. "More than half put off health care due to money problems" I mean really??? Cant' be!

I watched mass demonstrations of poor and so called middle class Whites (who are nothing more than poor Whites with a petty job) carrying signs reading down with health care. They said they didn't want it now you're trying to tell me more then half Americans are putting off caring for their health because of money problems.

No Way.

If the GOP is out to repeal the Healthcare reform law, what do they propose to replace it with? A return to the old way controlled by the Healthcare industry? They have yet to propose anything new to control the outrageous premium increases and abuses by Healthcare providors. A simple way to control that would a bill that limits Insurance premium increases to the rate of inflation, ie 3 or 4 times the current inflation rate. That would make them live within their means. This regulation however is anathema to the Republicans. If nothing is done and God forbid, the healthcare reform law IS repealed, economics will take care of the matter within the next 2 to 3 years. Simply put, the number of uninsured people will skyrocket because they will not be able to afford the premiums. Only the wealthy will be able to afford health insurance. It will break the back of our fragile recovery

Well, it is about time. We are over medicated, we are over doctored, we are encouraged with relentless ads listing symptoms and touting their new prescription drugs as remedies. We have been indoctrinated into thinking we need to see a doctor for every little ache and pain, every sneeze and sniffle, every paper cut. We are told we need inoculations for everything from bedbugs to flu bugs. Our babies are saturated with chemical concoctions by the dozens, before they reach the age of two, and we are told to spray, wipe, wash off, every speck of possible contact with something "harmful." Our children cannot develop a decent immune system because everything is taken care of with artificial protection, doing only heaven knows what to their little bodies. STOP IT. YOU DO NOT NEED TO CONTINUE FILLING THE POCKETS OF THE DRUG COMPANIES, OR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS WITH UNNEEDED TESTING.

How can "twenty percent say they have been negatively affected by the law" when the law does not go into effect until 2014? Somebody is either lying or too stupid to understand the law.

Where do those that need care go? Hospital emergency rooms, where they are treated. About 2 years before I had Medicare, I had such an emergency. I had no insurance. I was treated to the tune of over $6000, for 2 visits for tests.

I talked to the hospital billing department over the phone and a very nice lady asked me if I had filled out the reverse side of my bill. I had not and did so and sent it in.

A week later the same lady called to inform me that all I owed was $300.

Who paid the bill? I don't know. But my point is simply this, one way or another, we all pay for healthcare.

How are we expected to live on no icrease of living expense with out an increase in social security pay going up ??? . Tell me that food , medicine , doctors , gasoline , clothing ...... the list goes on and on . Yet to justify the " no - raise " in three years -- how can we help but cut necessary things . Congress , the senate got " cost of living raises --- why ?? . Did just their cost of living go up ??? . O ne day commming when a congressman , or senator is voted out of office , their pay and medical and any other benefits will cease --- just like everyone else's does . Then we will see how they survive .

This is another example of our failed health care system. The only way we can truly solve this problem is with universal health care and single payer. Politics, profit incentives,mega-lobbying, huge campaign donations by insurance and Pharma industries, uncontrolled health care inflation,and widespread financial pounding of the middle class is crushing this nation. Resulting forclosures and bankruptcies have turned the American dream into a nightmare. Diversion of our nations wealth to two futile wars whos cost will be over 2 trillion has left us near widespread poverty. Switching to medicare for all along with tight price control of fees,drugs, premiums,executive salaries,campaign donations,hospital charges, and lobbying are crucial to recovery from the second great depression. The special interests must be removed from the trough and stop choking our nation. R C Dillihunt, MD Portland, Maine. Dillihunt8@aol.com

healthcare in wasington state is a nightmare.if you are on medicare and dont have supplemental coverage, most doctors wont see you.being on ssi and having a fixed income,i cant afford secondary insurance. so the emergency room is where i will go and its a bill i will not pay.i cant do it any other way.to top it off, if you have any viable problems with pain,you are not able to get meds to help relieve that pain. the only way in this state is when you have cancer or are at end of life. now people are turning to criminal ways like buying pain killers off the street from drug dealers to get thru the day.terrorists use torture to induce pain to make people talk.now doctors are useing the same methods by denying people in pain a better quality of life.imagine people spending their ssi money on drug dealers because doctors refuse to do their job..there job is to make the patient as comfortable as possible and aid in their health issues..i dont smoke pot,but mabey its time to get a license and try it out. who is at fault here? looking for answers....thank you