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Linda Pierpoint

My husband and I will be 65 in 5 years, and we are appalled that we are accepting goods from China which are killing our animals and people, but we can’t get drugs from Canada! How political is THAT!!!!!  You need to change the system so we can get our drugs without going broke, i.e., safe drugs from Canada.  Please help!

My health care story is: I was in an automobile accident recently, my car was totaled, I sat in the Thousand Oaks emergency room for 6 hours, with no end in sight.  I went home and came back the next day and ended up waiting 8 hours before getting looked at, and I came in when they opened on Saturday. Because I wasn’t physically bleeding, they assumed there was nothing that serious.  You can’t tell me we have the greatest health care in the world with that kind of service!

field poll
There is Widespread Support for Reform
81% of voters agree with the statement "it should be public policy that government guarantee that all Californians have access to affordable health care insurance or other health care coverage."
Source: Field Poll, "California Voter Views of the Health Care System (Part 1 of 2)," January 3, 2007.
did you know?
The hidden tax constitutes 17 percent of health care premiums in california and equals $455 annually for a single person's premium and $1,186 for a family's premium. Medi-Cal underfunding contributes another 7 percent to the hidden tax.