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Anonymous
I am an accountant at an area hospital. I see the abuses in healthcare. People use already busy emergency rooms as their doctor's office because the...(More)
RTS, Vermont
The one thing no one seems to point out is this.
Every person who worked in a factory had health insurance .
Paid into SOCIAL SECURITY.
and also ME...(More)
Anonymous
I don't even want to tell you how much money I pay to carry coverage through my hmo. They had very little choices
of doctors within their group, soo...(More)
Anonymous, Massachusetts
i work in human services and my company offered me health care after a short waiting period. the problem is i do not make enough to meet my needs an...(More)
DC
I was ignored by my primary care physician. A few years ago, I had a normal mammogram. A month after that, I felt a small lump while doing a self-br...(More)
Anonymous
The health care system for Americans is broken. A family member who lost there job by getting hurt on the job lost all there medical insurance and cou...(More)
Gail
My doctor saw me for abdominal pain and charged $500 for the visit. He saw me for about 15 minutes. My ins company reduced it to $350 and applied it t...(More)
Virginia Cotts, Colorado
I am employed full time as an RN. Last year I left my employer of 9 years because of illness but continued my health insurance for myself and daughte...(More)
E's Daddy, Missouri
My daughter, 3, sneaks out of bed to get some Tylenol because she 'feels sick' and has a fever. Catching her leave the bathroom, I call poison control...(More)
Anonymous, Ohio
My kids ages 28 & 30 have no health-care like 47 million other people in this country. If only the bush administration would think of the people in th...(More)
Mary, Washington
I am disabled and in significant pain for which I need meds. I pay $386/mo. to get coverage for prescriptions meds. Generic meds have a $10. co-pay so...(More)
Loey, Arizona
Unfortunately, I moved from PA to AZ and am no longer in the AFL-CIO. AZ is a right to work state. I work for an employer who will provide health insu...(More)
DOC., Michigan
A dear friend asked me to help get her to the hospital, because her daughter was threatening a mis-carriage. As we arrived at the hospital parking lo...(More)
katysmom
My story is about the hairdresser for my diabetic mother, my daughter with Down Syndrome, and myself. She is no longer here to tell her story hers...(More)
Anonymous
While a single mother, my son was enrolled in Missouri's MC+ healthcare program for uninsured children. However, in 2004 Governor Blunt gutted the pro...(More)
Mike, Ohio
In fall of 2000, my mother-in-law, who was retired but not yet eligible for Medicare, was diagnosed with cancer while she was on a vacation in souther...(More)
Anonymous
I had horrible headaches. I missed so much work that my principal finally asked me to take a medical leave from my teaching position. My doctor coul...(More)
Dee, California
I went into the ER about a month ago due to a real bad stomach indigestion problem. I kept requesting some strong GI cocktail medication. Then they to...(More)
Karen, Pennsylvania
My husband went to the ear doctor about 1 1/2 ago and he was in pain. The doctor cleaned out his ears (he puts sewer pipe in the ground so dirt is a...(More)
David, Illinois
I was once in my union's health plan. No matter what the claim was for, I always got the form letter stating; "Expenses are above the normal and cust...(More)
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