Zip, Nada, Gone! Just when we were getting our notes together to tell you all about California’s high-risk pool, the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program (or MRMIP), Governor Brown issued the 2017 budget. And guess what? He abolished it! Really? Because as inadequate as MRMIP […]
The Problem: People Get Sick When President-elect Trump and his buddies in Congress repeal Obamacare, they’ll have to figure out what to do with all the sick people that the health insurers don’t want to deal with. Remember, the big problem before Obamacare was that health […]
Healthcare Heaven? Or Hell? I admit that I love sci-fi. And when sci-fi comes true, it’s so cool, right? Well, sometimes, but not always! Especially not when the movie is Elysium (2013) starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. It’s about a future where the 1% […]
How Obamacare Protects Us Concerned about losing Obamacare? You’d better be! Because Obamacare has protected millions of Americans from their health insurance companies. You heard that right. Obamacare has shielded us from Medical Underwriting, pre-existing condition exclusions, and coverage rescissions since 2014. You might not realize what […]
2017 Obamacare Deductibles: $7,150 for individuals, $14,300 for families This is such a screwed-up time to be pushing for more healthcare reform! On the one hand, with Obamacare on the chopping block, HEAL California squarely stands with the millions of people with pre-existing or chronic…
Ben Palmquist is the Campaign Manager for National Economics and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). He supports grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right campaigns for statewide universal, publicly financed healthcare. Ben holds a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA and a B.A. in Urban Studies […]
HEAL California is thrilled to announce that Terri Carlson is joining our team! Terri is the creative genius behind the video “Will Marry for Health Insurance” that exposed the cruel impact of pre-existing condition exclusions used by health insurers for decades. One of the major reforms of Obamacare […]
People keep saying that health insurance is the path to health care. “If we can just get everybody insured, everything will be ok.” Even if that were true – and statistics indicate it is not – private health insurance is a very costly way to […]
