Doctors Within Borders

as this delightfully entertaining person wrote
" these hillbillys wouldn't have health care even IF they could afford it,they would rather have lottery tickets"
i have something to say. firstly that they have absolutly NO idea what they are talking about. As a resident of southwest va AND a redneck hillbilly to boot i have health care AND asm in perfectly good health. as is the rest of my family. sure we have our problems but doesnt everyone. unfortunatly everyone in my region is not as fortunate as me and my family. but that has nothing to do with buying lottery tickets. it has more to do with our federal and state government!! we are a proud people and very family oriented. we take care of ourselves the best way we can. i am a PROUD member of my region and i am ranked very HIGH in my high school. many people in my region have high IQ's and more intelligent than many others. we know how to SURVIVE when many others are unfortunate enough to barely be able to put food on their tables. We may need to recieve free health care but thats ok because at least we have the opertunities that many do not. plus if it wasnt for this region God only knows what would happen to this country. You need US more than we need YOU!!1

Instead of criticizing this situation, wasting your breath, what are you doing to help? All of you read the last three paragraphs? There are the three different ways to get involved. Make a difference for someone else and for yourself. It feels good to help and feels bad to criticize. Everyone will remember those who helped many years to come and forget you who criticized in a matter of minutes. Just click onto the links to see how we can help.

well fatjoey, it is obvious that your intelligence level is lower than many of these hillbillies, this is a national problem not an isolated problem. If you look around you most people in any area buy lottery tickets with the hopes of winning, this is obvious by the high winning totals that are a pertentage of the tickets sold. Perhaps next time you should look at the nation as a whole and then you will see that the middle class is disappearing at an alarmaing rate and a majority of people do not have insurance, or it is so inadequate our country as a whole should be embarrassed as to the way it really treats our citizens.

HAVE ANY OF YOU EVEN BEEN TO A "V.A."HOSPITAL? IF YOU HAD YOU WOULDN'T WANT UNIVERSAL HEATH CARE!!!

Comment: Well, instead of National Healthcare in this country, our current administration prefers to invade foreign countries to take the natural oil deposits that formed under their sand and control it so we can take it. It's an old story. I vote we indict Bush, Chenney, Rumsfeld and Rove on war crimes and them institute National Health care. Oh. and while we're at it, we could pour some money into solar energy rather than invade Iran next.Comment: Actually, we may all want to learn how to speak Chinease. They''ll be our Landlords soon. And has everyone heard about the Superhighway, that our government denies exists, and the Trilateral Commisson and the Amero? America is in it's last years. Our government sold us out.

hey,sickofwhining, i love the way you write. i'm forever a big fan<3

This is so sad. I've said for years that America needs to clean up it's own back yard; before going into third world countries to help. We have people here in desperate need and we turn a blind eye and deaf ear to our own people. Wake up America. It's in our face and we still don't see it. It's not about politics, it's about someone caring enough about us to help. I don't care which party. Let's also don't forget all the individual's who send there money and help outside this country. The government does not control that aspect of it. Open your eyes, and take responsibility for your own actions. I could go on and on; but would anyone listen? I doubt it.

Isn't it odd that most other civilized countries are able to provide their citizens with health and dental care, while we, one of the richest nations, is unable or unwilling to do the same? I've lived in Europe and often visit Canada...in fact had a heart attack while in Halifax, Nova Scotia 6 yrs. ago..and got excellent treatment. I'm also an RN so have witnessed how our health system works. We need one that covers all..not just a few.

I feel universal healthcare would be a wonderful asset to americans. It would allow all of us to receive the healthcare medical and dental that we need. The government would set the standards of payment to the hospitals and doctors. EVERY american would benefit. We could do away with MEDICAID!!! For instance, Lets take a typical open heart surgery patient. Most insurance companies will pay only 80%. An average surgery of this type cost approximately $65,000.00. Leaving the patient with the burden of the 20% approximately $13,000.00. This burden causes a trinkle down effect to repay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The government will be in total control of what the doctors and the hospital would be paid, yes , we as americans will have to come together and pay more taxes but everyone will benefit. ( Nothing is FREE not even society )as this gentleman has written. Unfortunately for the law offices they may not be able to sue independently, they would have to sue the government, that is why most lawyers would object to this idea. I feel everyone has a responsibility to work, unfortunately the insurance company's for medical and dental make you pay extremely high premiums and then add on the 20%. And also, where did the 8 percent of americans that don't have healthcare come from????? you need to research that one!!! I feel universal medical and dental healthcare would significantly help society.
Dental Hygienist
And by the way I currently do not have medical coverage for my family

These volunteer clinics are wonderful, and part of capitalistic design. If the government controlled healthcare, we'd all be waiting in line and our income tax rate would be 60%. Remember how well the government did with Social Security? Let's let government do what they were originally intended; protect the states from foreign attack.

If we weren't providing free health care to the illegals who daily flood our hospitals and ERs, we could afford to take care of our own citizens.

maybe it would be more affordable if we didn't provide 11 million illegal mexicans FREE health care? THINK MAYBE???

The most important comment in the article is that we choose not to provide basic health and dental care to millions of Americans. The problem of provideing health and dental care to the uninsured is a diifficult, but solveable one. Many countries poorer than ours do a much better job.

The state of health care in this country is one of the greatest failures of our government and a source of embarassment for this country exploited by our enemies and contributing to our reputation as a militaristic, uncaring society.

Well, instead of National Healthcare in this country, our current administration prefers to invade foreign countries to take the natural oil deposits that formed under their sand and control it so we can take it. It's an old story. I vote we indict Bush, Chenney, Rumsfeld and Rove on war crimes and them institute National Health care. Oh. and while we're at it, we could pour some money into solar energy rather than invade Iran next.