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Posted by: Julia Eisman on Oct 24, 2008
Need more evidence that health care matters this election?Just follow the money. To date, Obama has outspent McCain on health care ads by eight times. This year, Obama has spent68% of his TV ad budget on health care-themed ads, while McCain only spent 13%.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Oct 23, 2008
"My family and I struggle under theweight and frustration of huge deductibles and heavy co-pays. We believe there has to be a better way." -- Chris, New Jersey. Chris is one of the hundreds of people who responded to ourcall for personal stories about why the next President should make health carea top priority. Watch the video and sign the petition urging the nextPresident to make health care reform a priority so every American hasaffordable, high quality health insurance - no matter what job you have or ifyou have a pre-existing condition.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Oct 16, 2008
In honor of yesterday's blog action day on poverty, wethought this a good opportunity to discuss how poverty is inextricably linkedto inadequate access to health care services and overall poor health. Living inpoverty means living without readily available affordable fresh foods and nutritiousmeals. It means living in more dangerous, polluted neighborhoods thatdiscourage spending time outdoors. It often means living with alcohol andsubstance abuse, which wreak havoc on the health of individuals and communities. Living in poverty often means livingwithout regular access to a doctor. Taken as a whole, these conditions are arecipe for chronic illnesses and even premature death.
Posted by: Ella Hushagen on Oct 16, 2008
It seemed like just yesterday that California was on the verge of comprehensivehealth reform in a bipartisan effort led by Governor Schwarzenegger and theDemocratic Assembly leaders. Budget constraints put a damper on a majoroverhaul, but the governor and legislative leaders insisted they were committedto the vision. Fast forward to September 30: Schwarzenegger vetoed basicprotections for consumers in the individual health insurance market, including somethat were part of the reform proposal he supported a few short months ago.
Posted by: Claire McAndrew on Oct 13, 2008
I want to let you in on one of the most exclusive groups inthe country that only the fittest and healthiest people can join. And, of thosewho do get in, only a few make the final round. To find out if you make thecut, just call up your local... health insurance broker. The exclusive group I'm talking about is the individualhealth insurance market - where insurers play by their own rules and canoutright refuse to sell coverage to anyone based on medical conditions or afamily history of health problems.
Posted by: Claire McAndrew on Oct 02, 2008
Health insurance exchanges, tax credits, guaranteed issue, high-riskpools- these and other buzzwords pop up in almost every article about thePresidential candidates' health care plans. Under a mountain of campaignrhetoric and "expert opinions," do you ever wonder, "What do the candidates'plans mean for me?" What do they mean for people who are uninsured? What aboutpeople who work their whole lives, only to get sick and lose their jobs andtheir insurance?
Posted by: Ella Hushagen on Sep 26, 2008
We all know that working families in America are squeezedin the current economic recession, plagued by skyrocketing health care costs andrampant home foreclosures. But how much does one have to do with the other? Theanswer, it turns out, is: A lot.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Sep 25, 2008
In the midst of the current financial crisis, here is Families USA's statement on health care and the economy:
We recognize that our country, Congress, and our next President face multiple demands on our resources to confront the challenges of the economic crisis we face as a nation. Yet that economic crisis is not limited to Wall Street. It is also a crisis felt every day by many American families struggling to afford basic health care....
Posted by: James Bierman on Sep 25, 2008
Every year thousands of insured individuals battle withtheir health insurance companies and lose. While the fake newspaper,
TheOnion pickedup on this trend in a satirical form, it is far from funny and it isnothing new. In 2006, a little over twoyears ago,
The Los Angeles Times reportedon many Californians fighting for the coverage they believed they had paid forin a front page article "
Sick butinsured? Think Again." In July of 2008,
The Los Angeles Times picked up on that story again
toreport that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield had been fined over $13million dollars and forced to cover 2,200 residents it had shortchanged.
Posted by: Laura Parisi on Sep 10, 2008
As an Americorps member at the BirminghamFree Clinic, I witnessed firsthand the daily struggles and frustrationsfaced by America's uninsured population. Many uninsuredindividuals can't afford to pay the out-of-pocket for routine medicalvisits, such as a physical for their new job, let alone afford the medicationfor a chronic illness. In theory, In response to this hole in ourhealth care system, aa safetynet of free clinics and community health centers exists to plug this hole inour health care system. I quicklydiscovered that while these clinics serve as a Band-Aid, they are far from thesolution to our nation's health care problems.
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