Health Care
Ellen LaForest - Philadelphia, New York
Philadelphia, New York
My family hasn't has health insurance for five years. We have three children and two adults living in the home. My husband works full time with no ins and I work park time with no benefits. My nine-year-old has never seen a dentist and my eighteen-year-old hasn't seen one in five years. We pay out of pocket when someone is sick and if it is an emergency we pay three times the amount. I pray that none of us needs an operation or a stay at the hospital because we would lose our house to the medical bills. And Congress just vetoed another minumum wage raise. None of them make minumum I am sure and none of them worry about getting sick...
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