All deserve coverage
I am a 54-year-old single woman with no health-care coverage. I have seizures and had to stop taking my medicine because I couldn’t afford the $200 a month it cost me to take it.
I have two sons, 34 and 30, who also both have health problems. Both work full time and can’t afford to buy any health-care coverage. When I gave birth to my sons, I never in a million years would have thought that they would grow up in America and be working full-time jobs and have no affordable health insurance even offered through their employers.
The leaders of our country have been talking about doing something about this for years and years and years! Still, nothing has been done? All American citizens, not just the rich, deserve to have health-care coverage.
Marcia Cude, Denver
I feel your plight, but have you or your sons considered changing jobs to ones that offer health care as well as a paycheck?
If that is not possible, look into the Cover Colorado insurance program at www.covercolorado.org
Posted by Elwood on July 6, 2007 01:36 PMI for one find that getting insurance that cost me 429 a month for 3 of us is not a problem. that also includes vision and dental insurance. I pay for my own and dont expect the government or any employer to pay it for me. If you need someone to pay for it then change jobs to get health benefits, even the much hated WAL-MART has insurance available. but you will have to pay for part of it.
Posted by on July 6, 2007 02:01 PMI respect the advice to the uninsured that they get a better job with benefits but unfortunately many workers will spend most of their lives looking in vain for such a position. Even employer offered insurance may still be unaffordable for people who need every last dollar just to survive.
My mother never had health insurance throughout her working life and would only seek medical care for an emergency which she would then spend months, if not years, paying off. Due to a diagnosis of a chronic autoimmune disease, acquiring private insurance was never an option. Once she was old enough for medicare, her life and her health improved dramatically. She now has access to medications and treatments that allow her a more active and healthier lifestyle.
At one point, I tried to have her added to my policy through work and found out that it was not allowed. Why not? I would have paid the entire premium, it wouldn't have cost my employer a dime. How would it have been different than if I had ten kids who would have been automatically covered?
Posted by Michael R. on July 6, 2007 02:36 PMI heard the Federal Comtroller with thousands of gov't. employers say that America is headed towards bankruptcy and the prescription drug Act was one of Bush's most fiscal irresponsibilities along with many of Bush's follies. The cure is there for those whom medication keeps alive; it is called the Larry Manzanares Cure. Should I become infirm, I will take the cure and spare my grandchildren the chore of paying $billions for the last few months (years) of my life.
Posted by JVB on July 9, 2007 09:34 AM