Health Care for All
This Week In "Insurance Company Rules": Forced To Raise Funds For Sick Friends
August 22nd, 2008
Insurance Company Rules were in full effect this week, from New Orleans to Pennsylvania to The Hamptons, as communities rallied to raise funds for ill friends. more » This Week In "Insurance Company Rules"
By Bill Scher
August 8th, 2008
After the Health Care for America Now coalition unveiled it's brilliant "Insurance Company Rules" video (below) -- elegantly depicting how insurance companies regularly try to make up rules as they go along to deny people coverage and benefits -- I decided to start a new feature: This Week In more »
Health Care For America Now!
By Roger Hickey
July 7th, 2008
On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed campaign, led by 100 national and local organizations. more »
The McCain Health Plan: Millions Lose Coverage, Health Costs Worsen, and Insurance and Drug Industries Win
By Roger Hickey
April 29th, 2008
Sen. John McCain's health care plan is a dangerous fraud. It will dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers about 158 million Americans and will force millions of workers to fend for themselves in a market controlled by unregulated and predatory insurance companies. His plan would drive health care costs upward, not downward.
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The Case
Why Health Care For All
The number of people in this country without health insurance is growing. And the likelihood of losing—or not being able to afford—good health care is striking fear in the hearts of many family breadwinners. more »
The Challenge
Costs are skyrocketing and squeezing working families. The administrative costs for private insurers are approximately four times the size as those for Medicare, Instead of providing coverage to all who need it, private insurers have a layer of bureaucracy to “cherry pick” their customers. They take on people who are less likely to get sick and deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. more »
Facts & Resources
More Uninsured Children
In 2006, 11.7% of children, or 8.7 million kids, went without health insurance. That's up from the previous year, when 10.9%, or 8 million children, were uninsured.
Americans Lack Health Insurance
47 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2006, up from 38 million in 2000.
The News
Uninsured Pay $30 Billion for Health Care
August 26th, 2008
Caught in Donut Hole, Elderly Forego Medicines
August 22nd, 2008
The Voices
Universal Health Care Makes More Sense Than Ever
It is worth pausing during these orchestrated partisan celebrations to look afresh at entitlements. There is no more recent evidence of their enduring value than the latest report from the Census Bureau on the number of Americans who are doing without health insurance.more »
In November, Women Will Vote With Health Care in Mind
And with good reason: The nation's health care system is in crisis, and women are bearing the brunt of its failures. more »
Latest from our Bloggers
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27
2008
4:37 pm
4:37 pm
Paul Krugman, the columnist for The New York Times, told me in an interview here in Denver that getting a universal health care plan enacted will be one of he most important keys to creating a progressive moment on a whole host of issues. more »
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26
2008
5:56 pm
5:56 pm
This was the Campaign for America's Future's Big Afternoon at the Big Tent. CAF took over the Digg Stage (the entire upstairs floor of The Big Tent) for a series of four panels addressing some of the Big Questions we wrestle with here. more »
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26
2008
1:27 pm
1:27 pm
Newly released data by the United States Census Bureau continues to show how much President George W. Bush has ravaged the American economic landscape. more »
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15
2008
9:32 am
9:32 am
This week, the health insurance lobby continues it's "listening tour" by hosting a staged event in an undisclosed location where it could hear nothing it didn't want to hear, and didn't want you to hear. more »
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12
2008
11:26 am
11:26 am
The outlook for prescription drug costs, and for health care costs generally, continues to be ominous. Price increases of more than 100 percent for certain prescription drugs means it is more important than ever to give the Medicare program the power to bargain with drug companies for the best price, so that seniors and taxpayers don't bear an unfair burden because of these price hikes. more »
jul
30
2008
11:06 am
11:06 am
Most of us don't go snooping in other people's medicine cabinets. That is, unless we're in the business of looking into other people's medicine cabinets, or using the information obtained by those who are poking around in the nation's medicine cabinets.more »
jul
23
2008
11:02 am
11:02 am
Americans will begin to tune into the election again around the conventions. And in the fall, they'll start to take a closer look at who the candidates are and what they believe. Iraq will be big no doubt; the economy bigger. But health care may just be the pothole that cracks up Sen. John McCain's Straight Talk Express.more »
jul
22
2008
10:57 am
10:57 am
The health insurance industry is launching a public relations and lobbying campaign today that is designed to convince people that they are on the side of reform even as they support a status-quo solution suspiciously similar to one pushed by Sen. John McCain and congressional conservatives. But a group of determined activists is making sure that people see through this smoke-and-mirrors show. more »
