Guaranteed Healthcare

In New York, health insurance corporations are conspiring to cheat patients, and in California Blue Cross Blue Shield wanted doctors to violate patient confidentiality.

So it should come as no surprise that the insurers’ scheme to get everyone in Massachusetts to purchase their products isn’t working out as well as some hoped.  Many patients still can't afford the expensive, wasteful, junk insurance they're forced to buy...leaving the state one option: jack up penalties so that patients can't afford NOT to buy them.

We'll take a look below...

From the frontlines of the healthcare movement… 

Guaranteed, single-payer healthcare is alive and kicking in California.

In Massachusetts, activist Dr. David Himmelstein explains how the “individual mandate,” which forces the public to subsidize insurance industry profits, is blowing a huge hole in the state budget.

And Pennsylvania is gearing up to bring fundamental healthcare reform to the Keystone State.

From Iowa to California to Massachusetts, the national healthcare debates are finally starting to hit the key point: the problem of the health insurance corporations.  We'll take a look below…

The following commentary by Rose Ann DeMoro first appeared in the Huffington Post. 

So much for the overblown rhetoric about shared responsibility in healthcare reform.Apparently the Massachusetts officials who enacted the law that has been hyped from coast to coast as the model for other state and national plans believe that only low and middle income individuals and families should carry the financial burden for resolving the healthcare crisis.