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Comments :: Poll: Insurers, health care industry blamed for rising costs

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wmp8396....I do know people in Canada and all of them seem to love the way their healthcare system is working for them.

"All while Obama slashes military healthcare and raised premiums & copays for military retirees."

Good, less of my tax money. unclegrits

Wow! Don't wanna even pry your wallet open for people who faught and were willing to die for you and this country you live in. Wow, our country really is in the sand

Any of you that do not think we should have free healthcare for everyone needs to watch SICKO. What is our country coming to if we spend more time trying to help people overseas and turning the other check to our own problems at home?

67% of Americans want Obamacare repealed. I am one of them.

I don't think any of us will be well served by a govt. takeover of our healthcare. Actually, just the opposite will occur. What we really need badly is for the entire healthcare industry to have to compete to drive down costs.

I find humor in the comments which suggest socialized health care is so good and desirable in many other countries, such as Canada and Great Britain. These are likely from people who don't have friends in both of these places. I worked with people from around the world for ten years, many from the UK and Canada. Seems they beg to differ, greatly with the socialized medicine is 'the best' mantra. Quite the opposite actually---as they worked overtime to move to the USA for what---primarily our health care delivery system. My UK friends would often share stories where people had to wait months for just an appointment--and if they needed non-life threatening surgery, again, months on end to have the surgery. Months, not weeks. Health care is rationed there--so if you just so happen to discover your disease/injury whatever at the end of the budget cycle, too bad--wait. No, Obamacare, i.e. socialized medicine will greatly diminish your health care delivery system.

Get THEE Govt out of and away from Hcare. Now. Today.

It a shame the elderly,have to suffer go with out being able to go to doctors,can get the much need medications,have surgery,they need,hospital copay can not afford.After 53 years years both of us working,good jobs,plan and saved for retirement,recession high cost of ever thing,our money is gone.The old people throw to curb and they just hoping they died soon.esteryates69@yahoo.com

"Just about every industrialized nation on earth has universal healthcare. They pay less than we do in the US and are healthier." billo

lol, tell that to the Canadians who are coming here because they can't get the healthcare they need in their own country. I can't believe that you are so snowed.

When you pay a $20 copay without knowing whether the doctor bills your insurance company $20, $200, or $2,000, you are also part of the problem. Start shopping around for your doctors and then INSIST on keeping costs low. You WILL pay the cost in higher premiums.

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