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July 13, 2008 4:08 PM
Remote Area Medical was founded to bring free medicine to remote parts of the world but now also helps thousands of the estimated 47 million Americans who have no health insurance and others who are underinsured. Scott Pelley reports.
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- We do have a health care problem in this country. But the 47 million number is not accurate. What they fail to tell you is 12 million have access to insurance but choose not to use it. The problem is we need to change the rules for insurance companies to carry over insurance across state lines and lower deductibles and premiums for people. We do not want the gov. taking care of our health ins. look at medicare and medicade and the va hospitals they are gov. run and are run poorly. Instead mandate new laws for the ins. companies to make ins. more readily available and affordable for people. If we do a gov. run health care people do not realize that it will make taxes go up and people will have trouble affording food and clothes. That is why it is expensive in Canada and England. I have friends that live in both places and when they visit here they buy all the clothes they can here because things are cheaper. I had cervical cancer at the age of 24 and was treated. I do not have ins. now, so I know what it is like to go without. But I don't want the gov. intruding into our health care system when there are better ways of improving. The mayo clinic has a good program and are not gov. funded. They have a good guideline we could implement everywhere. I would love to have insurance, but I do want to eat.
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- I live in Europe where we all have good medical insurances, it is really a shame that USA has so many problems with a National Health Insurance considering the billions of USA $ which are used for military purposes in countries where no hope for Democracies exist, either now or later. This story is amazing, it shows a reality which should not be.
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