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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! |
 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.
  Emergency rooms are by far the most expensive means of routine care. The cost of medical care for treating a patient with strep throat is $91at a doctor's office and $72 at a retail clinic, but $328 in an emergency room, according to a study by Health Partners conducted in 2005.
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