by Sylvia Moore | Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
While we in the single payer movement fight to dismantle the fragmented, for-profit healthcare system, it helps to know how we got here in the first place. Jacobin Magazine’s The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care by A.W. Gaffney is a worthy longread about...
by Sylvia Moore | Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Sacramento Bee reported that AB 52, the legislation that would give regulators the authority to review proposed health insurance rate increases, passed the state Senate Health Committee on Wednesday. Assembly Bill 52, the controversial bill that would impose rate...
by Andrew McGuire | Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Andrea Lomax asks California OneCare: Who will be on the program and how much will it cost? Is this a secret that only a few people know? Please let us know so that we can make up our own minds? Ms. Lomax: Thank you for these good questions. The answers are certainly...
by George Savage | Sep 13, 2010 | Uncategorized, Video
Click here to see the video When people get sick it’s nice when their neighbors take over a casserole, clean up around the house, help with the kids. But when someone gets sick and loses their job and then their health care–that’s a little more than...
by George Savage | Jul 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Click here to see the video “Just what are insurance companies adding to health care?” George Coe asks. They take 30 cents off the top of every premium dollar and what do we get? Mountains of paperwork, lavish ad campaigns for inadequate insurance plans,...
by George Savage | Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Click here to see the video Archie Hahn, founder of the Groundlings, read Senate Bill 810–all 87 pages of it. While he admits its not a great novel, he did learn that the California OneCare plan will indeed provide full care, for all, for less, and he encourages...
