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 […]
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 […]
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. Regardless of who controls Congress and the White House next year, the biggest winners will be health insurers. Here’s […]
Media downplays impact Average premiums for Obamacare plans will go up 25% in 2017 per Reuters (10/25/16). But the media insists it’s no big deal. CNN claims that a year-over-year 25% premium increase is “predictable.” Considering that premiums have been rising by leaps…
