What option for health care do uninsured Americans have under our current Presidents administration?
368324
Get their own insurance.  Go to the hospitals get treated work out a payment program.  Hospitals are required to treat people even if they are indigent so us taxpayers pick up the bill anyway
917995
Republican health care policy=send your sons and daughters to Iraq. Dead people dont need health care.
919389
It's not - a universal catastrophic health care plan for all American citizens for one year would cost less than one day of our current adventure in Iraq.
143235
There are millions of Americans with health problems. Not just smokers and the obese. Our rates are going to go up regardless. The problem isn't about who gets the healthcare. The problem is with how the government handles the whole situation. And with Bush in office, you can bet that it's not getting any better. Insted of pointing the finger at the people using the healthcare (including yourself), vote in the next election...
1078804
Nothing is free.  Nothing.  And trying to make Healthcare "free" would be catastrophic.  Free Healthcare is not vital...it's not proven to work...and it's not all candy canes and lollipops as you claim it to be.  I know people in countries that have free, universal healthcare.  They don't get near the quality that American's get, and their systems are shakier than John Kerry's political stances.\n\nEDIT:  Please don't run from the facts.  It's not my job to pay for someone else's healthcare.  Nor is it the job of corporations to provide "free" healthcare.
837229
Yes, and I hope something is done about universal health care for everyone and it should be priced according to a percentage of income. High time we have some changes in America.
263398
We have WORKING Americans who are not even afforded these luxuries.  Paying for noncontributors and not even being able attain these services themselves is not fair. This is what is making health care, college education, etc. unattainable to working class people.  Why should we pay for them when we can't get these things ourselves?
202498
Many states and counties have  agencies that will take care of the uninsured. In my town we have HAWC. It is run by the county and will even take care of the homeless. Please check with your local welfare office for a list of agencies that will treat the uninsured.\n\nI read your added info. Please check with your local welfare agency for a list. Even if you don't qualify for medical assistance, (and you might) they will be able to guide you to an agency that WILL help you. They are the ones with the answers you need.
644466
Do you often poke at hornets nests with a stick?\n\nThey have already improved their quality of life immensely just by coming here.\n\nBut some sort of community based program for basic health care for infants and children would be a good idea if you can get any jaded Americans to subscribe to it.
451476
Australia has government funded healthcare called "Medicare".  You have to go to specific gov't hosptials or doctors to get treatment or your bills won't be covered (like a massive government HMO).  Private healtcare exists and is very reasonable with small deductables and huge coverage.  I pay $125 a month for myself, (young adult), and get full coverage on everything, plus emergency and dental.  Drugs I pay up to AU$30, then they pay for the rest.  I have no deductable for doctor/dental visits, as everything I've been to has been reimbursed.\n\nMost people here still would prefer to belong to private healthcare over public healthcare, as the waits are shorter and the benefits better.
383846
Recommend that you contact your Congressman and local news station.  You might get the story to go to the national news.  See if you can reach Fox News (www.foxnews.com) so they can bring national attention to your problem.  A trust fund to help with current and future medical costs may be in your future.\n\nAnother course of action is to get in touch with the minuteman project to become the face of their effort.  Americans need to know that good people are getting hurt.\n\nGood luck.
327874
Like most people (according to public opinion polls), I believe the US healthcare system is terrible.  The free market approach leaves too many people without adequate coverage...yet another dysfunctional consequence of capitalism.\n\nThere is little way to improve health care within the current economic paradigm, which privileges profit above concern for human health and life.
553906
I have had a devastating illness in the family. I am a Citizen. I did NOT receive help for my son. Just a kiss off. The programs are bloated with people who should NOT even qualify but by false documentation or the rules of that state of not being ALLOWED to ask if they are legal citizens take away from the LEGAL CITIZENS who have paid into the system for years. I know I am blessed my son is still alive there are sooooo many others who have lost their child through inadequate medical care due to money constraints.
451212
Bottom line.  He wants votes.  Just think about it.  His is the first state to actually bring in universal healthcare.\n\nAll of America is going to vote for this guy just on that fact alone.
471404
Funny thing is, I am a LEGAL resident and I can't go to a doctor because I don't have health insurance, and not even once it crosses my mind going to the ER to get primary care. I pay my taxes and do everything by the book, and as a legal resident I cannot (and don't want anyways) use any kind of welfare until I have been working here for 10 years (that's my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong) but the illegals always find a way to misuse the system. Do you know how many families "recycle" insurance cards to fraudulently get medical care because in one family they have 5 "Maria Perez"'s? Sorry, that's illegal and it puts a huge strain on the medical system. And of course those living of of welfare...So I don't think they should use the hospitals to survive, the HC system is already falling apart! I will not deny them of medical care but I don't think it's right. What needs to be done is to fix the problem at the root, and not just use "quick fixes".
1032484
Yes, Americans do have to pay for their own health care IF they are lucky enough to have the money to afford it.  Otherwise, they have no insurance.  Where do our taxes go?  Every place EXCEPT back to the American people.  That's why we have millions of uninsured persons in the states.  Sad, isn't it?
734552
Put your crack pipe down and step way back....they don't have "enough" control.   Universal health care will not work in our capitalistic society...and College will never be free...it is all a business and they are out to make money...yours!!!!