It’s our government’s RESPONSIBILITY to assure that we have the RIGHT to health care.

Last time I checked the “right to health care” was not in the Constitution. Since when is the government responsible for our personal needs? We all have the “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—not having all of our personal needs met by the government. The government is responsible for ensuring our freedom, the rest is up to us—it’s called personal responsibility. Implementing the nanny state that the liberals desire will destroy productivity in this country and ensure that we all have a lower standard of living in the end—and certainly much worse health care than we have now.

None of these wonderful ideas will come into fruition as long as our leadership is ‘republican’ - since R’s believe in the ‘trickle down’ economics, and allow corporations to get bigger and bigger. As long as medicine is a corporate business in this country, we will never be able to have health care for all Americans! It is still “the rich get richer… poor get poorer..” as long as this is Corporate America! Democrats continue to build from the grass roots, upward! This makes ALL the difference!

Isn’t this what the constitution calls the right to life? I don’t think the Preamble says anything similar to “IF they can afford it”, or if the Congress thinks they are worthy of life, blessed with a conscientious employer, or strike it rich. I thank God for my husband’s employer now, but I know this too could pass.

In 1776, “health care” was nonexistent. There were no anitibiotics; you would die from a strep throat, or an infected cut. Doctors bled you to heal you. Smallpox and tb would get you before cancer had a chance. The main reason for bankruptcy in this country is not a subprime mortgage or credit card debt; it is a medical problem. When I needed a medication to save my life that was not available in the U.S. yet, I got it from Germany, where the govt. sets the price of meds. It was legal; the FDA helped me arrange it. If Bush had been in office (he tried to prohibit getting meds from abroad) I might have died. It’s FDA approved now and three times the price it costs abroad. Fortunately, I have excellent insurance that’s a big chunk of my income. But once you fight for something to save you, you are willing to pay. Starr, before you drop your coverage, investigate every possible way to have health insurance or medical care.

My husband is retired military and I have health insurance. The only problem is that medical care is so expensive that we can’t afford the deductable on some of the care that we need. Just about every other country has health care available to all, why can’t the greatest country have that exact health care? I believe that with all the taxes we pay and living in this great nation that everyone should be able to get the medical care they deserve and need. Would this make our nation a socialist government? Don’t think so. We, as American’s deserve a good health care policy.

I have no medical insurance. I don’t qualify for any kind of assistance. I’m up a creek! I’ve contacted insurance companies but they will not cover my RA, they want to put a 2 year ryder on any policy and the deductible is over $5000. It didn’t matter whom I contacted, they were all about the same. We HAVE TO DO SOMETHING AND DO IT NOW. There are way to many people losing their insurance coverage. My son was recently diagnoised with type 1 Diabetes and he can’t get coverage either. He’s working hard to find a way to get his insulin. I have to remain in pain and watch my body fall apart basically. It’s just not fair.