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One of the issues at the center of the current debate about health care reform is what to do with the nearly forty six million people who are uninsured.
Are you one of them? Were you? How do you get by?
I am not insured for three reasons: 1) medical insurance does not pay for the type of primary health care I wish to have, 2) premiums are too high for my social security income (I’m 63 - no medicare), 3)I need insurance for trauma care but even these premiums are difficult and would leave less to spend on keeping myself healthy with good quality supplements, organic foods, etc.
I’m hoping insurance companies, or insurance cooperatives if this turns out to be part of legislation, will offer better coverage for prevention and for natural health therapies.
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I bought my Government Medical Care with a Brian Lobe, lots of skull and blood in the war in Korea..so not insured by the stealing. BIG PROFITS Medical Insurance Companies..andif the care I receive from Military and Veterans facilities is “Socialized” Medicine, I am All for it for all folks as it’s been great at saving and keeping my life, healthy too, when it would have been so easy to have let me just die by withholding a few medicines, or let an air bubble in an IV or blood transfusion..etc but not even with great liability for the USA GOVERNMENT,I WAS KEPT ALIVE,THOUGH UNFIT FOR ANY MORE COMBAT OR SERVICE IN THE CORPS