Doctors Within Borders

People can be ignorant, (sick of the whining). YOu obviously have money and can afford things like dental care. I am married, I have two children, I went to college, both my husband and I work full time jobs. I carry health insurance for all of us through my employer. It costs be about a third of what I make to pay for the benefits. My daughter has been hospitalized four times in her four years of life, has asthma. We do not smoke, we live by a strict budget, and yet, can not afford the rising health care costs. My seven year old needs braces. A roughly 3000 dollar expense that our dental insurance will only pay a thousand for. So we are forced to make a choice. My child, will go without braces and will likely face tooth and jaw pain at various times over the next few years, so we can continue to put food on the table, and pay on our daughters medical bills so the hospitals don't send us to collections. And when her medications were costing us 400 dollars a month, it was hard to make ends meet with out salaries. So i took a second job. I saw my children, one of which is ill, for a total of one to two hours a day. I would love to see you have to make those choices and then judge those of us that don't have the "expendible cash" lying around. There is nothing more tragic for a parent than being forced to choose between keeping a roof over our family's head or paying for health care we can't afford. IT is not a matter of can not or will not. Sometimes, like many other things in this world, the choice comes down to a simple issue of MONEY. Oh, and if you can afford the ever rising costs of health care PLEASE feel free to send some of your cash MY way!

whats more important,your familys health insurance or your cars auto insurance? funny,all the people who cant afford health insurance sure are driving cars????

The richest country in the world can't even take care of its own people- Why? GREED, GREED, GREED
How is that CANADA can have a national health system that give people the comfort that when they do a have an emergency they're are not afraid to go to the hospital- as for the mighty USA - if your not financially secure - expect to pay thousands and thousands. We can easily come up with billions of dollars to roam around some unwelcome dessert blowing up ragheads?????????

The real issue is the healthcare workers you have people with 2yr degrees making $45,000-$60,000 and those with 4yr degrees making $50,000-$80,000 and dr's making well over $100,000. Insurance Companies also want to make a profit so they charge companies more and more so some small companies can't afford it. So when people with no coverage come around they can't pay what insurances will pay because the healthcare workers want so much money. It's a vicous cycle that will never be broken and will get increasingly worse over the years. It's all about money and they (insurance companies and healthcare workers) don't care about the people. And that's the truth.

I have a hunch that the majority of people who post negative comments call themselves christian. Make sure your buried in shorts, cause its going to get hot.

WHY DON'T BILL GATES AND WARREN BUFFET JUST PAY FOR EVERYONES UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE THRU THE GATES FOUNDATION? THEY HAVE THE MONEY!!

how can we consider ourselves so superior, when we can't afford to take care of our people. we can afford to give oil companies tax incentives but can't give human beings proper health care. we have a long way to go before we will be a truly civilized nation.

It sucks having to sleep in the bed you make

After reading many of these posts, my only question is - what can you do to make a difference? A lot of posts do a lot of blaming (blame the government, insurance companies, health providers, other countries, and even other poor people), but what about you? What can you do? How can you help? This article moved me to tears, and caused me to donate just a few dollars to REM. Should things be changed? Absolutely. Can the government help? Definitely. But maybe, we are the change that needs to be made. Can't donate? Volunteer. Can't volunteer? Spread the word. Stop blaming and start doing. Everyone can do something. It reminds me of the famous quote: "God, I sure wish You'd do something to help all these poor people!" And God answers: "I did! I made you!"

c'mon poggy - it seems to me that you might benefit from a couple of months in that part of the country. Most of those folks are Democrats if they are registered to vote at all, have little education and just get along day to day.

Their concerns do not relate in any way, shape or form to what the rest of the nation has concerns about. Flag burning? Never - most of them love this country, in spite of it's failings. The health care issue must be solved and a National Health Care plan, which in any way resembles that of Canada or the UK will be a failure. We would all have to be severly taxed to provide what we'd need to have for such a plan to work. suppose you have to have lived there to know that.

I am from that area and I can understand that there are truly people are in need of health care. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS BULL STORY!. There are people that are in need but there are alot of people in those area' s that take advantage of every free thing that comes their way. I grew up with people who that had nice homes, took regular vacations to Gatlinburg, TN, who would get a new car every few years and still go stand out side of the free clinics to get free health care. Because they knew they could get away with it and those are the same people who can afford to buy groceries but would still stand in line for free commodities. There are people who would rather get a government check rather than have to get a job to support thier family. I grew up an hour away from Wise, VA. and there are more scammers on the welfare systems than there are genuine people who actually need it. There are business's that try to move into the area but because they can't keep up a workforce move out because it's easier to get a government check than it is to be responsible for a job. So when I read this story of "oh poor applachian people who live in pain" I know its crap because people can work and don't. If you don't believe me...Look up lawyer Eric C. Conn. He is an ssi/disability lawyer. He makes alot of money getting people on thier "rightful" disability checks and takes a portion of their back pay. If you drive into eastern Kentucky towards Pikeville, Ky or Prestonsburg, Ky you will see his big billboards, and mannequins dressed like him adversiting that he can help you get you disability. Trust me there are poor people in Appalachia but it's not because of the circumstances or the area... it's because they would rather live off the government than have to get a job or heaven forbid move where work would be. I left Eastern Ky to go to college, I got loans but I paid them off, I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of a good job and to get married. I know it's far from home but sometimes you have to make a decision of sit and starve or go out and take care of yourself.

This is just another story about how we need "Universal Health Care" to help those poor desperate people. What those people need is realize that the government isn't there to take care of you.. you do it yourself!