My Healthcare Story – Janet Anderson

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...

A Consumer By Any Other Name….

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...

My Healthcare Story – Mary Casella

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...

Healthcare Refugees

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...