Tom Bower

How can we count on our private health insurance companies when they consistently deny care to their policyholders? As Tom Bower points out, in the first half of 2009, they denied one in five claims for treatments recommended by doctors for their insured patients....

Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins shows us how absurd it would be if police protection was like our health care system. There’s an intruder in his home stealing his stuff, but his police insurance plan—Blue Cop—excludes burglary, so he can only get the police to help if the...

Norman Lloyd

We’re the only country in the developed world that does not provide health care for all of its citizens. This astounding fact took Norman Lloyd back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights. One of these rights was the right to health care. We...

William Schallert

The single payer plan is simple: Remove private insurance companies from the system, and administrative costs drop from 30% to less than 5%. “That saves billions,” William Schallert says, “more than enough to cover everybody.” That’s why...

Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin quotes Senator Bernie Sanders: “The fight for universal and comprehensive health care is the civil rights battle of our time.” It’s the will of the people against the most powerful special interests in the nation. Join us and help us win,...