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August 14, 2009

BILL MOYERS: That's it for the JOURNAL. Your letters and e-mails are telling us what you think of our continuing coverage of the health care debate. We'll be staying with this story for as long as it takes, and it's useful for us to read your comments, both pro and con, about our work. We read everything that you post.

Over the next two weeks we're presenting two important documentaries on health care. First up is a film from the producer Roger Weisberg that tells the story of what happens to average Americans who fall seriously ill without insurance. It's called "Critical Condition."

DALE: A lot of people are dying, and they are dying because they don't have health care.

KAREN: Medical care is definitely a right. Nobody should be turned away.

CARLOS: The big issue is your money or your life.

DALE: You spend most of your life working, but once you don't have health insurance, every thing you work for your whole life will just go.

KAREN: It shouldn't matter if you got a $20 thousand a year job. Your life is just as important as somebody else's that makes a lot of money.

BILL MOYERS: That's next week on the JOURNAL. In the meantime, you can learn much more about the health care debate by logging onto our website at PBS.org. Just click on "Bill Moyers Journal." There you'll be able to fact check all sides of the health care reform ad blitz. You'll also get a side-by-side comparison of the different Health Care Reform bills currently circling Capitol Hill. I'm Bill Moyers. See you next time.


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