14,000 people a day face losing their health insurance

The Center for American Progress Action Fund and Health Care for
America Now, held a teleconference to release new reports which
stated that health care is the biggest component of our economy and
it is necessary to restore the nation’s prosperity. “About 14,000 people lose health insurance everyday, and this is what we can expect as long as the job market remains in crisis,” said Judy Feder with the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Director for Health Care for America Now, said that the public shouldn’t be scared by the fear-marketing which the insurance industry and drug companies are using to protect their profits. “We’re quiet sure that the public will understand that they can’t continue to rely on private health insurance’s ability to charge them whatever they want and to raise premiums four times as much as wages and that they need the government to be a rule maker and offer them a choice for a public plan as an alternative for private
insurance,” Kirsch said.

Dr. Mai Pham, National Physicians Alliance, stated that patients who are
sick don’t want to see doctors and can’t take their medication and “It
makes no sense to choose such suffering and sickness and expense over
health if we can avoid it,” he concluded.

by Suzia van Swol, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service