by Sylvia Moore | Oct 25, 2011 | News
Tomorrow in New York, Occupy Wall Street is holding a march against American profit-driven health care. Marchers plan to stop in front of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, WellCare and St. Vincent’s Community Hospital in the city. The movement’s new web site,...
by Andrew McGuire | Jul 14, 2011 | News
I have always been responsible for getting health insurance, either privately, or group health insurance through my job. However, since becoming unemployed and the COBRA subsidy ending, I am no longer able to afford health insurance, and I have also been denied...
by Sylvia Moore | May 23, 2011 | News, Video
ABC News reports on the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association researching the role profit-driven health care has played in the decline of emergency medicine in low-income communities. See the previous post by Physicians for a National Health...
by Sylvia Moore | Apr 25, 2011 | News
Dermatologist Elizabeth Rosenthal, a supporter of single payer health care, wanted to see for herself how Canada’s Medicare system worked. She was part of a New York delegation that took a trip to Toronto to interview providers and patients. Rosenthal wrote...
by Andrew McGuire | Mar 21, 2011 | News
by nyceve Originally posted on the DailyKos on Mar. 15, 2011 The Japanese have an enviable healthcare system. Everyone is covered and they spend about half of what we spend in the United States. Here’s how things shape up when you compare healthcare costs and...