"I woke up and rubbed my eyes and my hands were covered with blood. I was bleeding from my nose and mouth and skin."
Sam was diagnosed iwth blood cancer at the age of 22. He's 34 now. Sam was born and raised in Central PA. He has a full-time job but it pays little, and he can't afford the premiums for his company insurance. The good news is, Sam's pretty sure his cancer is in remission. The bad news is, he's reluctant to visit his doctor for a checkup because if the cancer comes back, he can't afford to have it treated.
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Your article may be a helpful resource guide for a few of the uninsured and underinsured. However despite the programs mentioned most uninsured and undersinsured people will continue to lack access to health care. The problem is not lack of information--the problem is lack of health care access to the vast majority of the uninsured who will continue to "slip through the cracks". For these people repeal of The Affordable Health Care Law will result in an explosion of the numbers who will die prematurely--now 50,000 annually. There is no way of sugarcoating this reality by touting the programs you mention that serve as little more than symbolic sops for the underlying problem. For that reason your article glossed the real problem by the superficial treatment given to the hard facts confronted by the uninsured.
I agree. Our health care system is broken and thousands of people continue to fall through the cracks. Alas, as a former congressional candidate who ran on a platform of health care reform, I can attest to the fact that Americans, overall, are ambivalent about providing health care to all - and the people who govern us are, for the most part, unwilling to look at the big picture.
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