USA - Health Care for America Now

Richard Kirsch, National campaign manager of Health Care for America Now.
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Our campaign, Health Care for America Now, so, weve put together purposefully the biggest unions, so its SEIU and AFSCME, the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, the Communications Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers; MoveOn and True Majority, the biggest online groups; huge community organizing networks, Center for Community Change and USAction and ACORN; Childrens Defense Fund; womens organizations; and a host of, you know, provider groups, like the American Nurses Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. And weve got a hundred organizers around the country. Were also organizing small businesses. The New York Times had an article two days ago about small businesses, organized concerns, and a lot of those are members of a new group called Main Street Alliance, who are organizing. So theres a progressive voice for small business to counter the NFIB. So this is a real movement were building, and thats what its going to take to stand up to the insurance industry.

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[pluto4847]

@steven94116 Thank you for the reply.

I asked the hospital what the total costs of repairing a broken leg, and they can't answer. They don't know. One said less than $10,000, another said $15,000. They just don't know.

Well whatever it is, I only want to pay the first $2,500 if my insurance company thinks it is medically necessary.

[steven94116]

@pluto4847 - I'm sorry to hear about your accident. To answer your question... HELL YES, repairing a broken bone is medically necessary!!! I swear, insurance companies don't have any common sense! All they think about is how to make more profits by jacking up premiums and covering less and less! They always use the lame o' excuse that they have to raise the premiums to keep up with the medical cost! This is totally bullshit!

[pluto4847]

@steven94116

I hear you. I have Temporary Catastrophic insurance with a $2,500 deductible. I'm supposed to pay the $2,500 and the insurance pays the rest. I broke my leg two weeks ago, and I need surgery or I'll get much worse. They have to screw in a metal bar to keep my leg together.

The insurance company will only pay if it is medically necessary.

Can I ask you a question? Is repairing a broken bone medically necessary? I hope so.

I want National Healthcare now.

[steven94116]

the Public Option needs implemented! Sick and tired of these private insurance companies raising premiums on individuals every fucking year!

[annwerner64]

Great video.I loved it.Thanks.

[jerdeb4evr]

I wonder how those words taste

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