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• 46 million Americans, including 8 million children, are without insurance.  That is one fourth of the current population. 
• 65 million Americans lack prescription drug coverage – 11.6 million of these people are Medicare recipients.
• 42% of uninsured Americans do NOT fill their prescriptions due to cost.
• A Harvard study done in 2001 determined that medical bills were the cause of an estimated 729,000 bankruptcies.  In 2005 that number was up to one million.  What is even more disturbing is that most of these people had health insurance.
• Prescription drug costs are a key element in the cost of skyrocketing health expenses.

These are some disturbing statistics.  The numbers look even worse when you start looking at what emergency room care for the uninsured costs America.  Every American should be entitled to decent affordable medical care.  Drug companies bring in some of the biggest profit, claiming that they need to recoup research and development costs on drugs.  The truth is that 45 of the 50 most popular drugs on the market were discovered with tax-payer money.

Consider the attitude of the German people.  They view their national health care system as a sign of how strong their government is.  Here in America we view the idea of a national health care system as a failure of our government.  No medical program is perfect.  Those in the world with socialized medicine can tell you the drawbacks of their program, which includes long waiting lists for care and difficulties in seeing a specialist.  In America, those of us with private insurance all have a story about how our insurance denied a prescription or procedure deemed necessary by our doctor.  Insurance companies are in the business to make money and that seems to be contradictory to the health and wellness of the American people.  Insurance companies don’t have our medical files in front of them when making decisions on what they will and will not cover.  Not only that, Viagra is covered when life-saving heart medications and birth control pills are not.  Taking Viagra is a personal choice.  Some women need birth control pills not for birth control, but for medicinal reasons.  Something has to be done.  There has to be a way to make sure that every woman, man and child in America has the necessary heath care and prescription coverage they deserve.  There is no reason that anyone should suffer because they can not afford medical coverage.  The cost to take care of the sick in the long run costs more than what it would cost to institute a national health care system.  Will vows to work to find the answer.  This is more than a health care issue to him; it is also a human rights issue.

There are a number of other things that need to be addressed and corrected in heath care from vaccine administration to pharmacist refusal to fill birth control pills.  It doesn’t take long before a health care issue becomes a human rights issue.