Did you realize that healthcare costs have grown to command nearly 18% of the US gross domestic product? Yes! Like a cancer on our economy, healthcare costs are sucking us dry, folks. Aside from our never-ending wars, nothing is robbing our infrastructure and our future […]
As a provider of low-cost or no-cost health care to over 2.8 million Americans each year, it is shocking to see Planned Parenthood “in the crosshairs” once again. Most recently, 46 US Senators voted to deny Title X funding to Planned Parenthood. (Title X is […]
A Westchester, CA mom expected to pay about $320 in co-pays and coinsurance when she took her son to a nearby hospital for an ankle injury, because she was very careful to go to a hospital that was in her insurance network. Imagine her surprise […]
A Bangor, Maine mom recently wrote about an Emergency Room visit with her young daughter. Her little girl had injured her lip, and was screaming and bleeding. Understandably alarmed, she took her to the Emergency Room. Thankfully, it wasn’t a big deal – her child […]
Can you imagine if car insurance worked like health insurance? I’m not talking about the mandate that drivers carry auto liability insurance, or health insurance. I’m talking about how the insurance actually functions (or not) when people need it! We were recently in an auto […]
