Highmark, official USOC health insurance supplier, sells junk insurance to...
Well, it looks like the broken, collapsed and shameful American "healthcare" system has even crawled up the ass of elite Olympic athletes.Highmark is a proud official Olympic supplier. Highmark even...
View ArticleWhen a leader of the Republican Party receives a deadly diagnosis. . .
Representative Dave Camp was just diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.Dave Camp is a leader in the Republican Party, the Chairman of the House ways and Means Committee. Dave is committed, like all...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: 47 percenter-in-chief, and his government healthcare
Along with the 2011 Romney tax returns, Romney/Ryan released some health information.So while they go around the country railing about repealing Obamacare, keep in mind what Paul Ryan considers sacred...
View ArticleI'm about to pay $8665 a year for crappy high deductible insurance in NYS
Quick disclaimer.I am a fierce champion of single payer. I am on the board of California OneCare, one of the most active single payer organizations in California. But right now, we are several...
View ArticleNew study: Single payer healthcare could save 1.8 trillion over 10 years
I am rooting for Obamacare to succeed. That does not mean we should abandon single payer.I'm not a single payer nihilist, though there are plenty of people who believe the road to single payer runs...
View ArticleBottom line: Obamacare really is for the 99%
The right wing, led by the moral reprobates at Freedom Works are determined to sabotage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act. They are targeting 18- 34 year olds, the cohort most critical to the...
View ArticleTweet @HarryReid and thank him for supporting #singlepayer
Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader told Nevada PBS yesterday that Obamacare was "absolutely a first step toward single payer.If anyone can get a link and put it up on You Tube, I'll embed it right...
View ArticleTenet Healthcare Wall St. conf. call reveals system plagued by high...
There are several huge inherent problems with high deductible junk insurance.High deductible insurance shifts what is called first dollar coverage from the insurer to the consumer. This is why it is...
View ArticleTidal wave of support from Americans long denied access to basic healthcare,...
UPDATE:JUST POSTED ON N.Y. HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE: Attention:Due to overwhelming interest in the NY State of Health - including 2 million visits in the first 2 hours of the site launch - the health...
View ArticleShrill AHIP warnings that 2015 rates will skyrocket means single payer must...
AHIP is guaranteeing huge premium increases.And the AHIP warnings reached a crescendo today, after the Obama announcement.The announcement by President Obama, that there will be a one year reprieve so...
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