Posted by: Mark Fisher on Mar 19, 2010
Insurance companies have demonstrated some pretty egregious
practices when it comes to who they'll cover and if they'll take away coverage.
We've heard horror stories, but this one takes the cake. Reuters
reported yesterday that in 2002, 17-year-old Jerome Mitchell, a college
freshman, was dropped from his insurance plan because he was diagnosed with
HIV.
Posted by: Peggy Denker on Mar 19, 2010
If you watch the news on TV or read a newspaper, you know
that a lot of Americans are nervous about health reform. One recent
poll, conducted by Ipsos-McClatchey on February 26-28, found that 41% of
Americans favor reform, while 47% oppose. And that's in line with what the
media have been telling us, isn't it?
Posted by: Mark Fisher on Mar 16, 2010
You may have seen a television commercial where a woman at a
restaurant is asking her waiter endless questions about menu items. But then, when
the same woman is shown at her doctor's office and is asked by her doctor if
she has any questions, seemingly out-of-character, she replies with a "no."
Posted by: Tara Bostock on Mar 15, 2010
When I was in elementary school, I spent my time playing inmy backyard or running around with my friends on the playground, I certainlydidn't think much about health care. But that's probably because I didn't haveto: I was always covered through one of my parents' jobs and so was my entirefamily.
Posted by: Erin Kelly on Mar 08, 2010
First, there were the highly publicized rate
hikes in California. Then, the Department of Health and Human Services
released a report detailing rate hikes in several
more states. And then there was WellPoint,
who joined the club last week by jacking up premiums in 11 states.
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Mar 05, 2010
The fight over health reform has reached a fevered pitch,
but between all the arguing over process and the lies and distortions that have
been thrown around by the opposition, the true meaning of reform seems to have
been lost: People's lives are at stake.
Posted by: Colleen Haller on Mar 05, 2010
If I learned anything from the Summit last week, it was this: Democrats and
Republicans agree that denying health coverage to people based on pre-existing
conditions is wrong and should be stopped. However, while the Democrats' plan
will ban insurers from these pre-existing condition exclusions, the Republican
plan does not. Why doesn't the rhetoric match the policy?
Posted by: Mark Fisher on Mar 04, 2010
A recent Kaiser Poll showed
that while Americans are split on their support for the health care legislation
in general, they are very supportive of individual aspects of the legislation. The
logic then follows-to generate more support among those that are wary, we need
to be clear about the all of the protections and benefits Americans will
receive with health reform.
Posted by: Mark Fisher on Mar 02, 2010
The news of WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield hiking
up premiums for its customers in California
by 39% made waves across the country, and many other of WellPoint's affiliates
will soon follow suit.
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Mar 01, 2010
Last week, a few of my colleagues and I had the honor of
meeting up with a group of 10 dedicated health care activists from Philadelphia Unemployment
Project and Pennsylvania HCAN who were finishing up the last leg of a 150
mile march from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. Melanie's March, named after an avid
health reform activist, Melanie Shouse, who recently passed away from breast
cancer, sought to show legislators just how urgently we need health reform.
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