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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 […]

Danger – Healthcare Snatchers have invaded the White House and the US Congress! Their evil plan Mutilate Medicare, a federal public health insurance program that covers about 4 million California seniors and persons with disabilities. Cripple Medi-Cal, a combined federal and state health insurance program that […]

Are you afraid yet? Because you’d better be. There’s a blitzkrieg heading for the key institutions that guarantee Americans health care. If the Healthcare Snatchers get their way, it’ll give a whole new meaning to “American Exceptionalism.” Let’s spell out their plans: 1. Mutilate Medicare Medicare […]

The presidential election has left healthcare advocates reeling. The candidate who promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), who lost the popular vote, has been announced the winner. Of even greater concern is that the leadership of both the executive and the legislative branches of […]