by Jeanne Ertle | Jul 6, 2018 | Whats Up
American hospital bills are today littered with multiplying fees, many of which don’t even exist in other countries: fees for blood draws, fees for checking the blood oxygen level with a skin probe, fees for putting on a cast, minute-by-minute fees for lying in the...
by Sylvia Moore | Aug 8, 2013 | News
by nyceve I am rooting for Obamacare to succeed. That does not mean we should abandon single payer. I’m not a single payer nihilist, though there are plenty of people who believe the road to single payer runs through the failure of Obamacare–I’m not...
by Sylvia Moore | Jan 16, 2013 | News
Our inadequate, for-profit healthcare system is taking a heavy toll on America’s well-being. Americans under 50 are sicker and have shorter life spans than people in other wealthy nations, according to a new study by the National Academies, the National...
by Sylvia Moore | Dec 17, 2012 | News
When the Affordable Care Act was being debated within the lofty chambers of the Supreme Court earlier this year, I was unhappy that the right to health care in this country was even being debated at all. It should be a given. What right do nine unelected people in...
by Sylvia Moore | Jun 29, 2011 | News
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...
