HEAL California thanks Don McCanne, MD, Senior Health Policy Fellow with Physicians for a National Health Program for granting us permission to repost his Quote of the Day from Sep 16, 2016 . A family physician in San Clemente, Dr. McCanne has written extensively on single […]
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 […]
Wendell Potter, author, journalist and former corporate public relations executive, spent more than two decades in the health insurance industry, leaving in 2008 after a crisis of conscience. You undoubtedly have heard that some of the country’s biggest health insurers have decided to leave several Obamacare markets, […]
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…
The HEAL Team extends a warm welcome to guest blogger Keith McCallin, Physician Assistant in Family Medicine. Take the quiz! Which of these dastardly duos is STILL screwing up your life? A: Bonnie and Clyde – outlaws and lovers on a killing spree? B: Thelma […]
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 […]
The HEAL Team extends a warm welcome to Wendell Potter, author, journalist and former corporate public relations executive! Wendell spent more than two decades in the health insurance industry, leaving in 2008 after a crisis of conscience. He’s joined our team to help promote our Get The […]
