My Healthcare Story – Kathy Varnam

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...

Emergency Rooms Close in Poor Areas

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...

A First Person Look at Canadian Health Care

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...