New York Newsday is asking regular folks to weigh in on health care reform.

As you can imagine, many people's opinions are a result of their own experience with the health care system, insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.

55-year-old Deborah Russell, who lives on Social Security and relies on Medicaid to pay her medical bills, favors reform.

Russell says too many hardworking people she knows - including a 49-year-old mechanic who rents a room in the same two-story house where she lives - have no insurance. "When he got sick two weeks ago, I gave him Tamiflu and some aspirin, but he didn't go to the doctor," she said of her neighbor. Any health care reform has to ensure some low-cost option for young and middle-aged adults who may need health care, Russell said.

You can read her complete story here.