My Healthcare Story – Grant Marcus

While a full-time, working registered nurse, I had returned to school to write and get a master’s degree in English. The research I had to do for my thesis was grueling the last semester. Since I was healthy, and rarely sick, I thought I would go to work part...

My Healthcare Story – Mary Casella

I am a cancer survivor who recently needed a biopsy of my cervical spine. As a retired registered nurse who worked at and had all my health care at a downtown Los Angeles hospital for the last 35 years I assumed that this would be done at my hospital. My insurance is...

Insurance Yanked for a 2-cent Mistake

If nothing else describes the unfairness and craziness of our profit-driven healthcare system, I don’t know what does. From Single Payer Action: Ronald Flanagan is a Vietnam Vet in Thornton, Colorado. Ronald and his wife Frances have health insurance from...

A Faithful Perspective on Healthcare Reform

by Daniel Roche I am a supporter of SB 810, a cancer survivor, and the member of a family greatly impacted by the state of our current healthcare system. My little brother succumbed to a combined auto-immune deficiency disorder unique to him seven years ago, but he...

Frances Fisher

Frances Fisher tells us that California can be the pioneer state for health care reform by showing the rest of the nation how successful a single payer health plan will be. “Let’s get rid of the private insurance profiteers in California and show America how to...