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Struggle for Health Care Making Us Sick

by via Mike Hall, AFL-CIO
Thursday, March 27, 2008 : There was a time in the not too distant past when the nation's health care system seemed to work pretty well for a lot of people. That was before, says Caroline, a 61-year-old from California, the private insurance companies became the heart?though certainly not the soul?of health care in America. Every time I see an insurance high rise building, I become a little livid knowing that they own those buildings with the blood and deaths of the rest of us.
There was a time in the not too distant past when the nation’s health care system seemed to work pretty well for a lot of people. That was before, says Caroline, a 61-year-old from California, the private insurance companies became the heart—though certainly not the soul—of health care in America.

Every time I see an insurance high rise building, I become a little livid knowing that they own those buildings with the blood and deaths of the rest of us. There was a time when hospitals were nonprofit…when doctors made a good living without gouging, when doctors had time for their patients instead of filling out insurance forms and waiting for the company to okay the procedure…with denials and delays, the patient now is either broke, sicker or dead.

We are so stressed out that it is making us sick. Insurance companies are too greedy and sanguinely heartless. If the present system is so good, why is the United States 29th in the world in healthcare quality and costs. Something must be done to stop corporate greediness on the health and lives of the rest of us.

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