At the age of 47 I had health insurance and a massive heart attack. Fortunately, I survived the attack, but my insurance did not. I was promptly canceled after insurance paid about half of my medical expenses.
My working children, who have their own children, cannot afford health insurance. What do they do when they get really sick?
I'm sick of paying more and more for less and less!
I have diabetes and my need for medication keeps increasing. I am taking 8 different meds now and only 3 of them have a generic double. My monthly bill for medication is $991.00 per month.
Because I have medicare insurance yhat costs me over $100.00 a month and any services that it does not cover I have to go without.
We have high medical bills and keeping our policy is using more than half of our unemployment payments
I played the odds and went without insurance for the first time in 34 years and I broke my leg costing me $27,000. Now I pay $430 a month for insurance.
Our friend Nina has a son with Asperger's Syndrome. They hired a behaviorist who provided extensive, but expensive, therapy. The therapy wasn't reimbursed. and the family had to declare bankruptcy
I do not have employer based insurance and want to be sure I can afford health insurance on my own.
No life is worth more than another life. A child born into a family without good insurance deserves good health just as much as the most privelaged among us.
My health care premiums just went up $150.00 a month. I am disabled and will soon not be able to afford health insurance at all.
My sister is dying because she had signs and symptoms that she had to ignore for more than a year due to her inability to afford healthcare. Once she was able to access medicare coverage she was then diagnosed with cancer.
We pay $16,000.00/yr in premiums, have a $5,000.00 deducible, and co-pays of $45.00. All we get from our health insurance company are piles of paperwork listing excuses why they can't/won't reimburse for medical care
I see more and more people in my community lose their insurance every year and we need to stand up for them. I am young, healthy and insured and my greatest fear is that I or a family member will lose insurance coverage.
47+ million Americans are uninsured and in need of equal access to quality, affordable health care.
Without insurance, a single bottle of insulin is over $110. It is wrong for anyone, especially those with a disability or chronic condition not to have the medical treatment and supplies that can keep them healthy and delay or prevent complications.
In 2001 I had double bipass surgery progably costing over $100,000. Between Medicare and Blue Cross it didn't cost me anything. Why should I have this privilege and not everyone?
Millions of US have no insurance, are under insured and or paying sky rocketing prices while getting less & less in return.
Health care costs are out of control. Please regulate the health care system so that it is affordable for everyone.
I can't afford to pay for health insurance for my family as my job does not include benefits.
As a family nurse practitioner, I have seen patients lose their healthcare or not be able to afford the deductible and co-pays. I have seen how this impacts their health. I've seen patients have to declare bankruptcy because of medical bills.
I have excellent health insurance, and still it takes most of my discretionary income for over a year to pay out of pocket expenses for simple medical procedures.
We need health care reform because all citizens should have the right to 'life'. Isn't part of 'life' being offered the ability to manage your health?
My son who has severe medical needs is unable to get supplies,procedures, equipment paid for by our primary commercial insurance or Medicaid. We are going broke paying for medically necessary things that insurance should cover.
My son is disabled and on July 1st will lose his vision care and dental. I am a laid off auto worker and can not afford pay these extremely high prices for COBRA. Haven't we made enough sacrifices?
I injured my back 10 years ago and cannot get any sort of follow-up care because it is a "pre-existing condition".
I'm retired and over the last 7 years my healthcare insurance premiums have increased from $240 a month to $820 a month.
My employer went abruptly out of business, having failed to pay the last month of premiums, so no COBRA. Fit and healthy at 58 I spent the next year being turned down by one plan after another for trivial reasons.
The only insurance that even starts to meet my son's needs is Medicaid. He has a significant physical disability, but should be able to work. If he makes too much money, he will lose Medicaid and at this time, private insurances will not cover his needs adequately.
There are too many people playing roulette with their lives because they are uninsured. They are sick but they can not afford the medical expense and their every day living expenses.
People without insurance are forced to go to the emergency room for care when this is the MOST expensive place to try to get medical care
Health Care is a basic human right!
Health care is the heart of our economic problems. We will not be able to improve the economic condition of this country unless we fix the Health Care problem first.
1 in 4 people who have been diagnosed with cancer have put off health care in the last year because it is unaffordable.
It is immoral when a person needs to go into bankruptcy in order to pay for medical expenses,
I am diabetic, 59 years old, and paying COBRA premiums over $400 a month since my husband passed away last year. This pre-existing condition will cause problems when I am forced to find other insurance.
The system is broken in every aspect. There are too many uninsured. There are too many underinsured.
I am frustrated with how unaffordable health costs have become.
Everyone knows that people are suffering greatly and in silence because in America if you cannot pay, you will not get any healthcare. I think it is a national disgrace.
my own family insurance policy premiums have jumped by 50 percent in the last three years, even while the coverage has decreased and deductible amounts have increased dramatically.
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