Every person in America is feeling the pinch of rising health care costs and sinking health care coverage. While insurance company profits have risen 1000% in the last five years, the typical American pays more for less coverage every year. Sign on to Health Care for America Now then forward to others.
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American medical care might be the most expensive in the world, but it is getting increasingly difficult to argue that it is worth every penny. A study that was to be released on Thursday highlights the stark contrast between what the United States spends on its health system and the quality of care it delivers, [...]
We must act now–together–to get quality, affordable health care for everyone.
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Campaign for America’s Future has joined with other groups to forge a new coalition effort to solve the health care crisis in America. Health Care for America Now, a massive national grassroots campaign launching today, will [...]
Elizabeth Edwards: ‘Most Preventable Cause Of Unnecessary Suffering’ Is Lack Of Health Insurance | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
Conservatives love to crow that the United States has “the best health care in the world.” Yet these same conservatives overlook the fact that 47 million Americans lack any health insurance at all, leaving them shut out of access to this world-class [...]
47 Million Americans now have no heath care coverage and twice as many people died in the US in 2006 from this lack of coverage than by homicide. Find out your state’s numbers:Dying for Coverage
Neither Clinton nor Obama’s health care plans get at the root problem our of broken system. What is needed is citizen mobilization to demand that candidates promote a single payer health care plan as opposed to their current schemes.The Failed Health Care Reform Plan of 2009 | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
Criminal Health Care: My Experience in Insurance Company Hell | Health and Wellness | AlterNetWith our great ingenuity, a better, more humane system is not out of reach. Health care should not be subject to the whims of profit-hungry corporations. It must be recognized as a universal human right. To put people through such tumultuous [...]
The price tag of health care for the uninsured is over $40 billion. Maintaining a market-driven system will only drive that bill higher. Health Beat: Will Consumer-Driven Medicine Really Cut Health Care Costs?
The private sector has had 20 years to prove that it could deliver low-cost, quality care using those vaunted business-style efficiencies; and it has failed us utterly and completely. This fact should be the ultimate nail in the coffin of the old conservative canard that “the free market always does it better.” If that [...]
It is true that Canada’s system is not the same as the U.S. system. It’s designed to deliver a somewhat different product, to a population that has somewhat different expectations. But the end result is that the vast majority of Canadians get the vast majority of what they need the vast majority of the time. [...]
