by Lisa Campbell

Created on: December 28, 2008

Do you realize that over 50 million Americans have no health insurance? Those who do have heath insurance cannot get a complete diagnosis or treatment for what ails them, because co-pays and other charges the people are left with are too much. Most senior citizens have to work until they die because Medicare won't pay for all their medication, or treatment.

Do you know that health insurance companies will deny people insurance because they are too tall, too short, too skinny, or too fat? Or if they have any precondition health problems, like diabetes, they will be denied? Has this happened to you or someone you know?

The intention of an insurance company is to maximize profits. They don't care about your life or your loved ones life. They only care about how much money they get. You pay monthly to have that insurance and the payments are usually over $100 to $200 a month. But that does not guarantee that you will get medical care. Most likely your insurance will not pay for your treatment.

Over 18,000 people die a year because they cannot get medical care or treatment here in the United States. In cities all over America hospitals treat people until they find out these people do not have health insurance or their insurance won't cover what disease they have, and then the patient is forced to leave regardless of what condition they are in. Do you remember seeing on the news that woman in the waiting room of a hospital needing emergency medical help and no one would help her and she died right there in the waiting room? That is not an isolated incident. It's happening throughout the U.S.

Go to Canada, England, France, Germany or even Cuba, and you will receive better health care and you don't have to pay for it. You pay it through taxes. The National Health care System is not taking away our freedom it is giving even the poorest of the poor up to the richest equal medical help. Do you know the people in each of these countries live longer then we do? Why are we letting our government lie to us? Do you know who started this type of health care system we have now, Late President Nixon and Kaiser Permenente, back in the early 1970's.

What are we spending our taxes on now? Helping the fat cats get out of trouble. Or a new stadium, whatever our government wants us to pay taxes on. Why not help out our families, ourselves, our parents who raised us and tried to give us a good life? Check out England's national health care system, Canada's, France or even Cuba. It's better then we ever thought of having with our current health care system.

I love this country, but our government and insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals have made us afraid, and we pay for it. We have to stand up for our selves and each other. National health care is not a dirty word. I promise you.

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