The Sicko Cure Road show was in Tallahassee on Wednesday, telling people about what they say are the benefits of guaranteed health care.

The Road Show is traveling across the country to try and pass a bill that would provide free health care for every American. With more than forty-six million Americans without health insurance many people are hoping for a change.

And some who have insurance worry that premiums are getting higher.
Jimmy Harris, a resident of Quincy says, "I kind of feel like they're a little higher than what I'd like to pay. I can manage but it takes a little better planning."

Rabbi Jack Romberg adds, "Is it just that middle class families that only ten years ago or eight years ago could easily afford health insurance, struggle to insure themselves and their children. Not only is that not just, it is immoral."

One doctor worries that with our current health care system, doctors are sometimes too preoccupied to give patients the care they deserve.

Byron Tucker, MD warns, "The financing issues and trying to figure out what the patient can or can not afford. They don't spend time directly dealing with medical problems."

Participants at the Sicko Cure Road Show believe they have the solution. They're backing Congressional bill HR 676. Under that bill, government sponsored health care would be available to everyone.

Barbara DeVane of the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans says the plan would be an extension of Medicare. "This would extend Medicare to everyone now; you don't get Medicare until you turn 65. With H-R- 676, you would get health care from the womb to the tomb"

Organizers met with Congressman Allen Boyd earlier in the day in the hopes of getting support for this bill.

Supporters of government funded health care not that, many European countries already have government funded health care programs, and under their systems things seem to run smoothly.