I was a small business owner until 3 weeks ago. My wife went into the hospital twice last year. We couldnt afford insurance at the time. However, we are now paying the price. We lost our business, our home and everything we have. We are moving to our daughters basemaent next week. We are 60 and 65 years old. I watched 60 minutes and cried for my country. If we get back on our feet Im moving to Canada. Bush has distroyed our country.

If people didn't watch "Sicko" before this piece, they should now. NONE of the remaining presidential candidates are offering healthcare- only "affordable healthcoverage". As long as the insurance companies are in control, nothing will change. Notice how many of the people who came actually had healthcoverage, but couldn't afford the healthcare co-pays. Thank God for Stan Brock, and RAM. Maybe with more stories on this crisis, others will step up and lend a hand. This is an issue that won't go away overnight, and given our economy, stands only to worsen.

Rachel, what makes you think that your girl Hillary, who is "the second largest recipient [in the Senate] of health care money" ("Sicko") would do a damned thing about health care?

Great post, Rachel.

I understand your frustration that the piece on the Democratic race has overshadowed it in coverage.

However, by the same token, with a cable/network news media obsessed with political horse races, mindless celebrity fluff, and lurid murder cases, I'm just grateful, not to mention pleasantly surprised, that a piece this substantive about the American health care crisis made it on the air AT ALL.

Thanks for calling our attention to it.

Stan Brock should be given the highest honours our country can bestow.

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Talk about a true American hero.

I will send RAM a check this week, and next, and the next, until there is no longer a need.

Forcing people to give money to the big insurance companies, for inadequate coverage, at very high prices, is no "solution" to the health care crisis. But this, of course, is Hillary Clinton's "plan".

Hillary spouts the "populist" words, but her policies and "solutions" are strictly designed to benefit her corporate backers.

It's amazing to me how easily taken in many of her backers are.

The president-elect will quickly realize that the number one problem is not that Americans can't afford health care -- it's that they can't afford anything, because their income is evaporating in terms of both lost jobs and a dollar that is racing toward worthlessness. They'll be hard put to pay for food and gasoline, never mind Grandma's emphysema treatments.

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Hey, they were still in the Third World. That is Bush's singular accomplishment: the downgrading of America and the degrading of Americans.

Still He dances On!

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If you have a heart, you can't watch the 60 Minutes segment and not think it is time for this country to find a way to provide healthcare for all Americans.

Richard "The Crook" Nixon championed our current for profit HMO based healthcare plan.
That fact alone should tell us its not good for America!

As soon as they made healthcare in this country a 'for profit' endeavor, the patient's wellbeing took a back seat to the stock holder's wellbeing.
This is why in the past 7 years healthcare costs have gone up a mind boggling 98%.
This is why even though we pay more for our healthcare than any other nation on Earth; our healthcare ranking is just above Slovenia's.
This is why you pretty much have to prove to Healthcare Insurers that you are so healthy that you will never need the healthcare you pay for.
This is why we have millions of Americans who are just one visit to the hospital away from being homeless.
But fret not all those who have to choose between healthcare and eating, America is a Christian nation...so just pray you won’t get sick or injured.

Figuring out how to break the lock corporations have on all of our lives will almost be mission impossible as more comes information comes out. Watching this piece really slams home the human cost being extracted from our country and should underscore the national imperative to undertake this mission and begin healing the damage. I believe that the true numbers of un- and under-insured in this country are being depressed by the same folks that would rather you buy Viagra and shut the hell up. We need to face up to the fact that worrying about a 4 hour erection is much less important than seeing clearly, being cancer-free, or raising well children. How much good could RAM do with the advertising budget for Cialas for one year?

When we become a third world country, who will come to our aide? China? Canada?

A little town 30 miles from a Medical School in Tennessse can't keep a Doctor. The school was built at tax payer expense to make sure that Tennessse Citzens could have a local doctor.

THEY DON'T 10 YEARS LATER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every "representative" of the people in Washington should have a copy of this piece. Truly shocking. While all this is going on, the MORON in the WH is dancing and acting like the idiot he is, waiting to endorse McCain. People who vote for McCain, or any out-of-touch repub. should be ashamed of themselves. We watched in shock as more and more people showed up. Imagine all the people who wanted to be there, but had no transportation? "Land of the free, home of the brave"????? I wonder how many of these people had served in the military at one time, or had relatives killed in the line of duty?? It was an absolute disgrace. People overseas who have the luxury of National Health Services must wonder what is wrong with the Americans, who spend BILLIONS on invading a sovereign nation for their oil, but neglect the citizens who pay taxes.

if you nutters think these people would get better care with commie medicine, visit russia, china, north korea... oh wait, how bout germany, france, gb? even closer-canada. works great there. HA