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Private health coverage leaves terrible choices

Sunday, November 8, 2009

(Updated 3:00 am)

I have been with and without decent benefits, as have my college-educated and working grown children. I have a co-worker who has horrible insurance through work that is expensive, has a high deductible and only pays 60 percent of any real medical care or surgery expense. She makes $8 an hour. How can she survive like that?

We need a public option that people can use to survive and not have to choose to go bankrupt or die.

Jacalyn Engler
Stokesdale

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mamaboilermaker

November 8, 2009 - 7:24 am EST

You really trust the government to fix this? On what do you base your trust?

xeno10

November 8, 2009 - 7:32 am EST

Ms. Engler, help is on the way! Democrats will pass health care reform legislation (with a public option) as a Christmas gift to the nation this year! Seriously.

rmacz

November 8, 2009 - 10:17 am EST

Where is the money coming from? Santa Clauss?

firerescuechick

November 8, 2009 - 10:52 am EST

The money is coming from us.....We pay when they go to the emergency room, and now we are going to pay to insure them.......not much of a "Change".......so, tonight I will be holding a candle-light vigil for what this country used to be and for the death of our Constitution

ghost from white oak

November 8, 2009 - 11:09 am EST

truman, please, keep your egg nog in the fridge, it may spoil otherwise.
It assume room temperature long before "health care " passes.

ghost from white oak

November 8, 2009 - 11:06 am EST

" Private health coverage leaves terrible choices"
While, I realize you did not write the headline, I will comment anyway'
Private health coverage leaves little choices, guvmint run health coverage leaves even less!

rightwingnemesis

November 8, 2009 - 11:28 am EST

Mr.ghost,
Do you love your health insurer? Do you like BC/BS having an almost monopoly here? Or, are you one of the people who listen to talk radio, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al and spout whatever they say? If you receive Medicare you are already on "Guvmint" healthcare and if you are not there yet, then tell us all about the wonderful healthcare you currently have. Please do tell!

swerdna

November 8, 2009 - 3:43 pm EST

"Or, are you one of the people who listen to talk radio, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al and spout whatever they say?"

Sorta like YOU listen to obama, pelosi, moveon et al and spout whatever they say?

danagain

November 8, 2009 - 10:05 pm EST

Almost monopoly? I dumped BSBSNC this year for another plan. It was easy.

swerdna

November 8, 2009 - 3:48 pm EST

Ms. Engler, when congress comes up with a plan that REQUIRES each and every member of congress and their families to be covered with no supplemental insurance allowed, then and only then will I be in favor of a government plan. This do as I say, not as I do thinking is unacceptable. If a plan isn't good enough for them, then it's not good enough for the American people!