SACRAMENTO, CA–David Welch is an RN and a patient who was denied health insurance because of minor skin cancer on his nose. This story, of an upper middle class white male nurse, shows how virtually anyone can be denied healthcare, and further illustrates the need for a universal healthcare system such as AB 840 in California and HR 676 nationally. Video by: Colette Washington & Jay Johnson
LOS ANGELES, CA–Emily Cannon, is a young woman in the prime of life, the daughter of a registered nurse, and a former elementary school teacher whose life has ground to a halt since developing a chronic but treatable illness. She is being denied treatment by her insurance provider which would fix the problem and enable her to return to the active life she once enjoyed. Watch her story to see yet another example of the growing number of Americans (with insurance) being DENIED the care they …
Matt Taibbi on Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong Americas disastrous health care system is responsible for incalculable amounts of illness, death, lost productivity and federal deficit — not to mention anxiety, anger and disgrace. And its not going to get fixed, writes Matt Taibbi in the new issue of Rolling Stone, because its encased in another failed system: the US government. Rather than attempt to remedy the problem this summer, our government sat down and demonstrated its dizzying …
Watch and Share this Compelling New Video Short: “Broken Levees, Broken Lives”…the Post-Katrina Focus on Health Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans are still waiting… Even though flooding only occurred in the basement, which was cleaned up and ready to reopen in October of 2005, the famous Charity Hospital in New Orleans remains closed in 2008 as the Louisiana State University (LSU) systems office and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) squabble over …