Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

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March 19, 2010

Current health care system ailing

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

We have to do something now about health insurance reform. I have listened to all the arguments coming from Congress. I am disgusted with those who are obstructing health care reform. I have a health insurance plan through work and the costs keep rising. The deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses are through the roof. Even with insurance I can’t afford to go to the doctor, I can’t afford even a simple health problem without going broke! Yes the bill before us is complex, but only because we have allowed the health industry to create a complex system. Insurance companies are controlling our health care system including hospitals, clinics, doctors and nurses. It’s a stacked deck and people are dying. How is this a free market system if the most of the insurance industry is concentrated and controlled by few? Two insurance companies control 97 percent of the Roanoke area insurance market: Anthem and Coventry. I want my government to step in and do what is right for the consumer. We need these reforms now more than ever. I hope that by the end of this week, Congress will have voted on health care reform legislation that will make health care affordable and accessible for all. Denise A. Smith Rocky Gap, Va.

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