It’s the Private Sector, Stupid

Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in a recent op-ed effectively points the finger at the real culprit responsible for our expensive and dysfunctional healthcare system: the private sector. Right-wingers, insurance companies,...

Big Pharma Ranks Among Biggest Healthcare Cheats

Forbes Magazine has reported that the Department of Health and Human Services recovered $4 billion from healthcare fraud cases, and that pharmaceutical corporations swindled half that amount. Some examples from the past year in drug crime and civil wrongdoing of the...

My Healthcare Story – Anonymous

The following are messages California OneCare received from a supporter, whose name we are withholding for their privacy: I am and have been all for this (OneCare). Starting in February, I am going in for treatments for my failing liver. It has been hell to get help,...

Thomas Henry

Thomas Henry wants to know why we can’t negotiate with the drug companies. Who put them in charge? And why do seniors have to face the lapse in prescription coverage called the “doughnut hole”? Single payer, California OneCare would make the drug...