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What are your thoughts on our health insurance system? In the stories that we’ve covered here, which one do you relate to most...?

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Dear FRONTLINE,

In my opinion, the problem with Health Care is the problem with Americans on every level. We want a lot for a little. We choose to behave in careless over-indulging ways and expect someone or something to catch us. Individuals should exercise and lower there calorie intake, quit smoking and cease dangerous habits. The government should raise taxes significantly to pay for these social programs that everyone wants but just don't want to pay for. Execs and doctors -- take a little less pay or make tax deductable contributions into these social programs.

Bowie, Maryland

Dear FRONTLINE,

You totally fail to address the COSTS. As if the bills were like gravity, real, not manufactured. You do not ask why a "million dollar baby" you just accept the supposed cost. A million here, thousands there, and do not ask why? Why are they billed what they are billed? Don't you think that what the insurance will pay is related to what is billed? Is this link too much for you guys? Go to the hospitols and ask, "a million dollar baby" why? where DID that million dollars go!

vance geiger
orlando, florida

Dear FRONTLINE,

Americans are totally frustrated by our health care system and this documentary illustrates why the current health reform debate is moving in the wrong direction. Congress is about to force all Americans to buy private health insurance under the pretense of "universal health care" using the Massachusetts model. This is not what Americans want and to compel us to buy into the outrageous behavior of the private health insurance industry is totally disgusting.

We need single payer, national health insurance and begin with a totally different cultural orientation - everybody in, nobody out.

Walter Tsou
Philadelphia, PA

posted march 31, 2009

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