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[happy2bhere]

and thanks for the advice. I'll go back and add to my profile, I was just in a hurry to ask about this post actually. Are these numbers actually accurate? I was against this bill before I was for it. I was pretty angry about mandated insurance(which still sucks) but when I took a look at how many poor people this was going to help...I just can't imagine any progressive person being against it. It might quite possibly suck for people who make over 60,000 but sheeit there are many people doing worse than you all, have a heart. For a poor person, this is a matter of life and death.

I don't know why they keep blaming the uninsured for high insurance prices, poor uninsured people don't go to the doctor/hospital because they know the high cost will ruin their already precarious financial situation. I would rather die than make my family homeless you know. I wish they would stop blaming the unisured poor people for the ridiculous prices of health care which in turn cause insurance companies to charge so much. I wish people would stop bashing the insurance companies long enough to realize one reason insurance is so high is the absurd cost of hospital visits etc. Someone needs to stop the hospitals from charging $4,000 for an MRI. Perhaps the US government could look into the Japanese system where the government pays for the hospital equipment and then sets a limit as to what the hospital can charge. An MRI in Japan is $98