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We pay twice as much per American for health care than the average Western country pays. We pay far more for health care per American than any other country pays. Our life expectancy is 40th in the world. Our infant mortality rate is 41st in the world. We are the one Western country without universal health care. Ordinary Americans are ruined every day by costs of illness.

The "leading" Democrat candidates for President want universal insurance through the insurance companies. Sounds good until you read the research paper that shows Americans are just as likely to be forced into personal bankruptcy by illness when they have health insurance as they are when uninsured. The insurance companies are selling us lies and false promises and we are spending literally hundreds of billions of dollars, and thousands of American lives, to support their profits and nothing more.

Even insured Americans have no insurance!

Some say that we will lose our ability to choose our doctor and that we will wait in long lines. Do you know anyone who has real choice of doctors now? The insurance company makes that decision for us now. A recent study showed that Americans wait a little longer than Canadians do for treatment just due to paperwork and lack of facilities. So we have waits and few choices now.

Then there is the cost to our economy. General Motors says that the cost of insurance for their workers adds over a thousand dollars to the cost of each car, a cost that Japanese companies are not paying. Small companies and large lose more worker hours, costing many billions a year, because of poor preventive health care.

Yes, taxes will go up but there will be an economic boom as the wealthy and middle class take the $5-10,000 a year positive difference between what they paid for insurance and the higher taxes and spend it for real products and not paperwork and insurance company lies.

I married a Canadian and we would like to live in America, but wanting a family we cannot afford to take that risk. I have owned a small business, gotten a US patent, sang at Carnegie Hall, had a role on Sex and the City, got a new park for my neighborhood and helped design it. I am a valuable contributor to any country and people like me, the creative and the risk takers, can no longer afford to risk living in America.

America can do better than to allow a bunch of greedy liars to keep killing us and taking our money while telling us we cannot have anything else.

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