Tag Archives: health insurance

Health Care for America NOW

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 [...]

Most Preventable Cause Of Unnecessary Suffering Is Lack Of Health Insurance

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 [...]

Dying for Coverage

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

Criminal Health Care: My Experience in Insurance Company Hell | 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 [...]

New Health Care Ad: Every American Deserves CheneyCare

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: New Health Care Ad: Every American Deserves CheneyCare
Last month, the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee ran ads in Iowa newspapers advocating for a single-payer health-care bill, highlighting the fact Vice President Dick Cheney has benefited from his government-provided coverage. “If he were anyone else, he’d probably be dead [...]