Our American health care system is broken. It needs to be fixed. We — you and I — must take a courageous stand and challenge our elected leaders to stand up for what is right, decent, affordable…and fixable: America’s health care system. It is the American thing to do.
We must, or we will all suffer, because our health care costs continue to rise every day.
I support comprehensive reform of our health care system.
In order to control runaway health care costs we need a strong public option that will bring real competition for the private insurance industry.
In Congress, I will work every day as a courageous, passionate and outspoken advocate for health care reform.
We need corporations to pay their fair share and to resolve the issues of uncompensated care that get passed along to us.
We have all seen too much suffering: of friends, neighbors, family members: decent, hard-working people who do not have access to good, affordable heath care.
We must help senior citizens who can not afford to pay for their doctor’s visits and prescriptions because they reached the “donut-hole” in their coverage.
No senior citizen should have to choose between food on the table or getting life saving medication.
We must assist young people who do not have access to health care because they were too old for their parents’ coverage and had none themselves, even though they are working.
We have listened to the stories of sick women, men, or children whose illnesses were compounded by the calls from the insurance company, hounding them into near, or actual, bankruptcy because they couldn’t pay their hospital bills.
Having served on a hospital board and a community board of a health insurer, I’ve heard too many horror stories about bureaucracy and budgets, and too few stories about quality of care and access.
We must correct this, or, we will all suffer. It is the American thing to do. I will be among those in Congress who show strength of leadership in standing up for accessible and affordable health care.
No more Excuses. Too many Americans have fallen through the cracks. This is America. We can, and must, do better!
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ON THE ISSUES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010
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Our American health care system is broken. It needs to be fixed. We — you and I — must take a courageous stand and challenge our elected leaders to stand up for what is right, decent, affordable…and fixable: America’s health care system. It is the American thing to do.
We must, or we will all suffer, because our health care costs continue to rise every day.
I support comprehensive reform of our health care system.
In order to control runaway health care costs we need a strong public option that will bring real competition for the private insurance industry.
In Congress, I will work every day as a courageous, passionate and outspoken advocate for health care reform.
We need corporations to pay their fair share and to resolve the issues of uncompensated care that get passed along to us.
We have all seen too much suffering: of friends, neighbors, family members: decent, hard-working people who do not have access to good, affordable heath care.
We must help senior citizens who can not afford to pay for their doctor’s visits and prescriptions because they reached the “donut-hole” in their coverage.
No senior citizen should have to choose between food on the table or getting life saving medication.
We must assist young people who do not have access to health care because they were too old for their parents’ coverage and had none themselves, even though they are working.
We have listened to the stories of sick women, men, or children whose illnesses were compounded by the calls from the insurance company, hounding them into near, or actual, bankruptcy because they couldn’t pay their hospital bills.
Having served on a hospital board and a community board of a health insurer, I’ve heard too many horror stories about bureaucracy and budgets, and too few stories about quality of care and access.
We must correct this, or, we will all suffer. It is the American thing to do.
I will be among those in Congress who show strength of leadership in standing up for accessible and affordable health care.
No more Excuses. Too many Americans have fallen through the cracks. This is America. We can, and must, do better!