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Americans who are struggling with addiction problems whether it be addiction to drugs, or alcohol, or nicotine will be entitled to drug rehabilitation services or programs to help them quit smoking.
And make no mistake. This will not be a so called "government run healthcare program" as some of my adversaries like to call it. This is not what some of my friends on the other side of the aisle like to call "socialized medicine" or "socialism". And I might add that those who label it as such, my esteemed Republican Senators and Congressmen, sit on their lofty perches, having themselves, the best healthcare coverage that money can buy-----and who is paying for it for them. YOU are. The taxpayers are paying for your Senators and Congressmen to have the best healthcare that money can buy, but strangely, they don't seem to want YOU to have the same.
Some don't care that 50 million, mostly middleclass Americans can't afford the astronomically priced monthly premiums.
Some don't care that 22,000 Americans, yes 22,000, die every year because they either don't have any healthcare insurance at all, OR worse, they find out that they are not covered for the illness or medical conditions they mistakenly thought they were covered for. All too often, patients are literally "kicked out" of the hospital after a few days when in fact they need to be in the hospital for a week or so, because of the dictates of the insurance companies.
It's amazing today; it's as if the insurance companies owned our hospitals.
It's amazing today. It's as if the insurance companies dictate to your doctor what he or she can or cannot do for you, based upon the insurance companies need for revenue, profits, bonuses, stock options, lucrative retirement plans for their Executive Staff and CEO's, and those wonderful golden parachutes.
Our entire system is totally off-kilter. We have insurance company and pharmaceutical company CEO's making tens of millions and hundreds of millions a year in personal salaries and earnings (one CEO made $1.2 BILLION in one year), and we have a Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, barely more than a teenage babysitter can make.
We have teachers that have not four years of college but rather 5 ½ years of college behind them with impressive teaching certifications, and yet in some States a starting teachers salary is barely $30,000 a year.
We can no longer afford to wait for the ranks of the uninsured to grow from 50 million to 80 million to 120 million to 150 million. It will kill our consumer based economy. And worse, it will literally KILL us.
Of the $2.5 trillion we presently spend on healthcare my plan will save more than $3/4 trillion (that's $750 billion) in money that is now wasted on unnecessary bureaucratic paperwork and insurance policy provisions.
No longer will our healthcare system need 10,000 insurance company office buildings where armies of insurance bureaucrats and claims administrations sit in cubicles devising ways to deny you coverage.
No longer will we need a system that offers thousands of different insurance policies, all of them different depending upon what State you live in.
No longer will you need to experience the incredible stress of losing your job---------and then to make matters worse, losing your families health insurance.
No longer are we going to have almost a million Americans a year filing for bankruptcy because they can't pay their medical bills. My goal is to have ZERO Americans filing for bankruptcy because of medical bills.
No longer are you going to be locked into your job because you are working just for the company's healthcare plan.
If you are a small businessman, or want to take the risk and start your own business, you will no longer have hanging around your neck, the exorbitant monthly premiums that would interfere with you making your small business a success.
