Heartbreaking! You’ve seen the heartbreaking ads with older vets pleading with us not to vote for Prop 61 because if we do, they’ll have to choose between food and drugs. Do the people who support Prop 61 really want to price our nation’s vets out […]
Why people “love” their health insurance continues to baffle us. Because anyone who has actually had to use it for anything other than the most straightforward issue has certainly faced hassles. And we’re not talking about random “someone lost my paperwork” kinds of hassles…
Panic over drug prices The panic over skyrocketing drug prices is growing exponentially. When it was mainly patients with rare diseases facing obscene price hikes for medicine, many Americans gritted their teeth and looked away, grateful it wasn’t their problem. But now “trickle down” […]
The HEAL Team extends a warm welcome to guest blogger Ben Palmquist, Campaign Manager for National Economics and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). Ben supports grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right campaigns for statewide universal, publicly financed healthcare. He holds a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning […]
Have you ever accidentally wound up seeing an out-of-network doc only to learn you’re on the hook for the bill? You’re not alone! A 2015 Consumer Reports survey indicated nearly 33% of patients got medical bills they did not expect. According to an August 2016 article […]
One of the biggest challenges faced by American businesses today is the cost of healthcare. You might be wondering why. After all, didn’t the Affordable Care Act fix health care? That’s a fair question and the only honest answer is, “No, it addressed health care but […]
According to an article today in Kaiser Health News, more small and midsized employers are choosing to pay their workers’ medical costs directly rather than buy health insurance for them. By self-insuring, the employers aren’t required to comply with many of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules for […]
“The tapeworm of the American economy.” Health care has gotten SO bad that even the “healthcare privileged” are pissed off! Yes, those would be the folks who work at Fortune 500 companies. They have the best health insurance in the country. Of course, it’s no secret […]
