Posted by: diychica on: November 12, 2009
A Harvard Medical School research team estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and had reduced access to care.
That’s more than 14 times the number of deaths suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan the same year.
Source:http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/veterans-die-lack-health-insurance
Posted by: diychica on: November 9, 2009
After voting against H.R. 3962 – Affordable Health Care for America Act, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:
We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care.
Source:http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=153995
Posted by: diychica on: September 12, 2009
The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.
Source:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html
Posted by: diychica on: August 14, 2009
Whistle-blower Wendell Potter describes in detail the insurance companies singular focus on profits”how the business model demands that they avoid the people most in need of care.
Source:http://thestimulist.com/health-insurace-industrys-dirty-tricks-exposed/
Posted by: diychica on: August 14, 2009
You might have known that insurers can deny health coverage based on preexisting medical conditions, but heres something else to worry about: They can take away the coverage you thought you had when actually need it, the government says.
The Department of Health and Human Services put a spotlight on that practice Tuesday.
Source:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/health-care-reform/2009/08/hhs_insurance_companies_encour.html
Posted by: diychica on: July 31, 2009
Recission is the retroactive cancellation of an individual health insurance policies, or the insurers’ established practice of looking for ways to invalidate policies once the insured needs significant medical care.
Don Hamm, CEO of Assurant, recently testified that the practice is rare, affecting only 0.5% of the population.
Source:http://tauntermedia.com/2009/07/28/unconscionable-math/
Posted by: diychica on: July 25, 2009
Blue Cross of California encouraged employees through performance evaluations to cancel the health insurance policies of those diagnosed with leukemia, breast cancer and 1,400 other serious illnesses.
Source:http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/17/business/fi-rescind17
Posted by: diychica on: July 15, 2009
“I beg everyone who reads this and clicks onto the link to send it on to everyone you know.
Send it to your congressmen, your governors, your legislatures, the White House. Get an email chain going–put the link up on yard signs or billboards. Put it on bumper stickers. Stencil it on tee-shirts or tattoo [...]
Posted by: diychica on: June 5, 2009
Not only have you lost your job, but you’ve just lost your insurance at a time that you will probably need it the most.
Here are some of the physical and emotional consequences of recessions and how to avoid them.
Source:http://www.billshrink.com/blog/7-ways-recessions-impact-your-health/
Posted by: diychica on: April 15, 2009
The critically-acclaimed actor asks insurance companies, “You’re covering my heart, why aren’t you covering my brain?”
Check it:http://fora.tv/2009/02/02/Joe_Pantoliano_at_the_Hudson_Union_Society#Actor_Joe_Pantoliano_Speaks_Out_for_Mental_Health_Care
