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Healthcare costs: Getting nickel and dimed
You can’t escape it. Horror stories abound. Because of healthcare costs, Americans are getting nickel and dimed while losing their homes, lifesavings, and going into bankruptcy. Many are falling off the financial cliff.
Profiteers, including hospital, insurance, and pharmaceutic administrators who are gaming the system, lobby against any change in healthcare.
But why should their pocketbook benefit at the expense of the American people?
As we look around the world watching countries provide healthcare to their citizens, comparatively and statistically we are slowly sinking.
Americans go overseas helping other nations. Instead, we should stay home and circle the wagons, taking care of our own. Doctors, nurses, dentists, optometrists, audiologists must start the cycle with ideas to rein in costs for better healthcare throughout our country.
I call for medical professionals, clergy of all faiths, and philanthropists to work together at a grassroots level to ignite a fellowship of goodwill to keep Americans from getting nickel and dimed.
We can’t allow fellow citizens to fall off the cliff.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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