Daily Health Care News Clips - 8/4/08
08/04/08
Today's health care news clips from all over the web. If I've missed an important story, feel free to leave a link in the comments! Read More
Health Savings Accounts Are A Scam
08/02/08
Health savings accounts, touted as the latest "free market" solution to our spiraling health care costs, is nothing but a scam to give more money to insurance companies and the rich. Read More
Why Are Workers Doing the Heavy Lifting on Health Care?
08/01/08
Union members aren't superheroes. They're just ordinary people-working Americans like the rest of us. Yet they've got more fight in them then the politicians that are supposed to be fighting for us. Workers are the ones doing the heavy lifting on health ca Read More
Maximum Limits on Lifetime Health Benefits May Provide Minimal Protection
08/01/08
Does your health coverage have a lifetime maximum? Is it adequate? (If you’re already stumped, a lifetime benefit maximum or cap is the maximum amount of money an insurer will pay for healthcare services over the course of the insured person’s lifetime.) Read More
Daily Health Care News Clips - 8/1/08
08/01/08
Today, we begin the first of a daily series of news clips on health care from around the web. The idea is hopefully to provide a place for folks to get a quick overview of what's going on in the larger health care world each day. If you have suggestions fo Read More
Fix Health Care - Fix The Economy
07/31/08
With the nation focused on our economy, higlighted by the spiraling price of gas, Phil Bredesen, the governor of Tennessee, hits on the larger issue. Read More
Sending Patients Thousands Of Miles Away Is Cheaper Than Treating Them Here?
07/29/08
It's simply amazing that it is cheaper to fly thousands of miles to a foreign country than to have a medical procedure here at home. Read More
We’re Getting Together Our Team!
07/28/08
citizentube, a Google citizen outreach project, has featured our video, "Insurance Company Rules," on their blog. Perfect timing. Read More
$217 million per hour
07/28/08
$217 million per hour. That's how much Americans spend on health care according to testimony in front of Congress' Joint Economic Committee by experts from the American Human Development Project. Read More
Are State Solutions Practical? Thoughts on Hurricanes and Health Reform
07/25/08
Lisa Codisopti, Senior Advisor at the National Women's Law Center, lays out the case for a national public health insurance plan, a plan that we here at Health Care for America Now feel is crucial to solving our health care crisis. Read More
Your Health Care May Decide The 2008 Election
07/25/08
Robert Borosage has a great essay up at Campaign for America's Future's Blog for Our Future. Read More
HCAN asks Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell, “Which side are you on?”
07/25/08
Yesterday, dozens of citizens, union members, and Health Care for America Now supporters rallied in downtown Hartford to ask Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, "Which side are you on, the side of quality affordable health care for all, or the side of the i Read More
