It’s amazing to me that a country like ours, that has always been on the cutting edge of innovation, we can’t find a reasonable way to handle health care. Any intelligent person would have to agree that the cost to maintain decent health care is just to high. The quality of care makes no sense, as it is almost nile. The system as it is insufficient. How many more people have to die needlessly, before we get this. I am one of many people in this nation that fit the demographic of the uninsured. In december I started bleeding from my colon. My older children, whom were home for the holiday’s insisted I go to the hospital. My only option was county. I was terrified. My son dropped me off. I looked around people were strewn everywhere and they were really sick. I remember seeing a women that was bleeding from her head. No one would assist her. She was moaning in such pain. It broke my heart, even though I was weak and dizzy from bleeding internally, I insisted that the nurses help her. I could net believe that no one cared to assist this women. I sat there looking around with the realization that with no health care insurance and a serious condition, I could die. Tears began to stream down my face. I remember thinking “Oh God, please, don’t let me die, I don’t want to leave my children yet, I haven't fulfilled what you wanted me to do on this earth, I haven’t been able to make a difference, I haven’t made my mark. I love being a mother and I know that what I have given them, will fallow threw for generations, but still I wanted something to call my own. I called my son and insisted he pick me up, I would not sit in that horrible place one more minute. No human being should have to go through the degradation, I experienced. The next day I went to a private hospital, with no insurance, they saw me right away and charged me $3800 for 2 hrs of er care, of which I still haven’t been able to pay. They told me to go back to Olive View County Medical Center. So, with much prodding from my older children, off I went. After 14 hours and much complaining to the administration, I was finally seen. Only to be told by the doctor, that I should be grateful that we didn’t live in some foreign country, because we would be on the floor. This infuriated me, but this is America and we don’t do that here, do we? He then told the patient next to me that if a man/women of 70 years or older came into the the hospital with no insurance and needed an angioplasty that he would not administer it to them because it was to expensive and he/she would most likely die anyway, This is unconscionable. What ever happened to the Hippocratic oath? I thought, Did the hospital intend to make the people with no insurance wait, until they couldn’t any more, in hopes the patients would leave. After 14 hours and much aggravation, I was told to go to my primary doctor, because I needed to see a gi specialist. This is crazy, I don’t have a primary, I don’t have insurance, there fore I don’t have a regular doctor. May be the current system doesn’t care if one more person dies needlessly. It must be they’re contribution to the overpopulation crisis. Whatever it is, it is wrong. Every human being on this planet deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and afforded the opportunity to achieve a better live, isn’t that what were about as Americans, shouldn’t health care be a part of that equation? I want to see my 7 year old daughter grow up to write policies one day. Please, America, I implore you, do the right thing. Give us, as a Nation the chance for a better life, initiate the Presidents Health Care Plan, before it’s to late.

Sincerely,
Sherryan’ Lima (A Citizen Just Like You)