"These people earn too much to qualify for programs such as Medicaid or county indigent care, but too little to purchase their own insurance."
"One thing that upsets me is ? (insurance companies) don't accept kids with pre-existing conditions," he said. "These kids did not choose to be born like that."
"I don't mind paying for health care as long as it's reasonable and within my budget and it doesn't take away from my family's food,"
"When she got sick, Sanchez-Miramontez used to go to Ju?rez to buy medicine or to get inexpensive medical care. But those trips stopped in January when the violence in that city became too much....I just want to go across the bridge, get some sleeping pills and come back, but I'm too
scared,"
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I think these four quotes from the article struck me the most. I do agree something needs to happen because when you make too much to qualify for medicare, yet make too little to buy your own private insurance, a large majority of people fall through the cracks.
And I bet once this reform comes through...politicians left and
right will be b****ing and complaining of the high costs of covering individuals with pre-existing and sever medical conditions. Well of course, so many have gone without health care for such a long time, their problems got worse. At least we're putting that to bay now and fixing it instead of ignoring or sweeping it under the rug.
I do relate to the article...didn't have medical insurance for a long time, luckily I hardly ever got sick, but I did have cavities that needed fillings that I would put off. And every time I went abroad, I would get my teeth done for a fraction of what I would get charged here. But I would have to wait a whole year to do so cause I only travel abroad once a year or so.
Even now that I have health insurance...the co-pay is hard enough to pay.