It's important for policy makers to hear stories from their constituents. Please share your healthcare story and we will make sure it is heard in Olympia!
It's important for policy makers to hear stories from their constituents. Please share your healthcare story and we will make sure it is heard in Olympia!
My family and I live on orcas Island. We currently do not and have not had any health insurance for many years. Due to the high cost of premiums put in place by the ACA anybody making over the income limit has a very steep increase in premium. It’s not like it goes up in increments. If you make $150,000 a year or $10 million a year the premium is the same. But if you make 1 dollar less than the cap your premium is reduced by over 50 % so this to me is a broken plan. Cost of living in a persons area should be taken into account. Too many times government programs are set up with blanket formula and that is an inaccurate calculation. Also when you have health insurance you are limited to going to the providers that the Insurance Corporations see fit. It seems to be pharmaceutical driven. There are great places like hope for cancer and such with great success. Far better than “normal medical treatment”. Our choice is to pay the man for there what I feel is corrupt product or use my premiums to see what doctors we choose and trust. I can onIy hope when we finally get HC4 All citizens will be allowed the choose their doctors not the government. My wife was given 18 months to live and told to start chemo treatment right away by a oncologist in February of 2021. Through the care of a prominent Naturalpath Dr she is on the mend and has a bright outlook. So please keep this in mind when setting all the policy procedures. Medicare or whatever it will be named is supposed to help people get medical care they choose. In my opinion the program is to manage funds taken from citizens payroll and disperse to those in need of medical attention not dictate what Drs they can see.
Thank you
Michael Person
This is why I urge the Washington State Senate & House to pass SB5701 and establish a statewide single-payer healthcare system. Because it’s not going to happen at the federal level. We need to keep our Washingtonians from falling through those many cracks in the healthcare payments industry. Insurance is not the solution, it’s part of the problem. Universal healthcare is the real solution to our current healthcare coverage crisis.
It continually amazes me that people prefer our current insurance-based system which covers only part of their healthcare expenses, even though they could have a single-payer system which covers all of their healthcare expenses at a lower cost overall! I can see why so many other nations care enough about their citizens to have implemented single-payer systems. Again, if the US won’t do it, then I urge Washington State to take the lead with its own single-payer system, which will:
1) cut out the expensive health-insurance middleman,
2) reduce pharmaceutical charges,
3) increase our choice of affordable doctors and care providers,
4) lower our state’s healthcare expenses, and
5) make healthcare available to all Washingtonians.
Isn’t it about time we did the right – and smart thing? Let’s do this one.
I worked for one of the best Nursing Homes in Washington State and it cost a patient over $15,000.00 a month. It get into a Nursing home you have to have the money then when you run out of money then you can apply for Medicaid. What is going to happen to all these people that will need Nursing homes help in the future!!
Please take the Bill SB5701 up in the State House, the rules committee and help everyone in Washington get Medicare (Health Care for ) for all!!