by Sylvia Moore | Jun 3, 2011 | News
My 25-year-old daughter was injured while on vacation with her boss and co-workers. She was at his private family estate when a dune buggy she was a passenger in flipped and rolled over her. She was critically injured. The estate has excellent insurance to cover...
by Andrew McGuire | May 31, 2011 | News
by Pippa Abston MD, PhD, FAAP Recently, Paul Krugman took on the use of the word “consumer” as applied to patients, in his blog post “Patients are not consumers” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html?_r=1. You should read it, and then come back...
by Andrew McGuire | May 25, 2011 | News
I am a cancer survivor who recently needed a biopsy of my cervical spine. As a retired registered nurse who worked at and had all my health care at a downtown Los Angeles hospital for the last 35 years I assumed that this would be done at my hospital. My insurance is...
by Sylvia Moore | Apr 15, 2011 | News, Video
While Democratic and Republican lawmakers bickered over budget deficits in Sacramento and Washington, last week thousands of uninsured and underinsured Californians endured long lines and chilly weather to receive the health care denied to them under our cruel,...
by Sylvia Moore | Mar 24, 2011 | News, Video
Why should anyone have to leave their homeland and live in exile just to have access to affordable medical treatment? But millions of Americans have done just that. If our healthcare system is so great, why is it that so many of our fellow citizens are voting with...