Health

Well as you know, just recently I was very sick and had to go to the hospital. Upon entering the hospital Emergency Admissions office I had to fill out a few questions. One of the questions being about Insurance, which I thought was still in affect. I told the receptionist that I wasn't sure about the insurance because I hadn't used it for such a long time. At the time I was just too sick to call and check. The receptionist exclaimed; "Oh, don't worry about it"...well I took her word for it and went in for treatment. A couple of weeks later I received their bill. When I opened the envelope I almost fell over when I saw how much they had charged me, $2,400.00!. I also learned that my insurance had been terminated earlier because I was receiving Social Security. Bottom line, you had better remember this when you decide to back one of the candidates. National Health Care should be one of our top priorities in this coming election. We don't need any more "lip service", While the politicians have the best Health Insurance this country can provide, more than 50,000,000 of us have NOTHING! This is unfair, and it has got to change! If you get sick and your health converge is no longer in effect because of a lost job etc., what will you do? I'm in that boat right now and I don't like it. I had to talk to some dummy at the hospital collections dept. and he tried to stiff arm me into paying the entire bill this morning, "if you don't pay up sir, we’ll have to turn it over to a collections agency"! I'm telling you people, I've been productive all of my life with my last job being at The Boeing Company where I designed Emergency Lighting Equipment for the 757 aircraft, the same aircraft that the terrorists used to attack us on 9/11. I”m also a veteran of this country too Now I'm a nobody without anyone in my corner.