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Do you know the despair and guilt that comes from watching your newborn child fight for its life because of a problem that would have been detected and corrected before birth had there been money for prenatal care.
If you’re fortunate enough to have health insurance, the money it will cost you for care is probably just an inconvenience, putting off the new C.D. player or vacation. But, if you’re not so fortunate, the decision you make based heavily on what it will cost, could mean a life or financial ruin and, therefore, the ruin of a family.
As in the instances above, there is always unneccessary suffering. Routine procedures become emergencies and true emergencies often result in longer hospitalizations and/or preventable deaths. It happens every day right here in this county simply because there is no health plan to fall back on.
Imagine your shattered life if something like this were to happen to you or yours. Imagine the helplessness you would feel if you were forced to make a decision on health knowing that either way you chose could be detrimental to your family.
It’s inhumane to allow such a thing to happen. I guarantee you that the patient lying in the bed in that cartoon would praise anyone who could help relieve them from such mental anguish, let alone the physical agony. We all would.
A national health plan fits well into the American ideology, the people have voted for it and are willing to pay for it, common sense and common decency demand it, and finally, we have a man in the White House with the vision and compassion to make it happen. The only joke will be if it doesn’t happen — a cruel joke.
VASCOJONES
Marshall
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