Healthcare
Junk Health Insurance
California and 41 states passed tough HMO Patients' Bill of Rights laws because Congress refused to act. Now, a President Bush-backed plan…
Mar 22, 2006Consumer Watchdog
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Insurance
Health Care Pirates
Watch the new music video and help sink the health insurance pirates. (Thank You to the Austin Lounge Lizards for their new…
Mar 22, 2006
Insurance
Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy
Harvard Study Finds Medical Bills Push Many Into Bankruptcy Nearly half of all Americans who file for bankruptcy do so because of…
Mar 22, 2006
Healthcare
Health Care Town Halls
Patients, employers, nurses, doctors, and hospital administrators have the most significant opportunity in decades to unite and build a universal health care…
Mar 22, 2006
Insurance
Cover Everyone & Save
"If the U.S. were to shift to a system of universal coverage � the savings in administrative costs would be more than…
Mar 22, 2006
Insurance
Why We Need Universal Health Care
“Like it or not, if we pay $1,500 per car for health care and our cheap global competitors pay $200, that’s a…
Mar 22, 2006
Insurance
Privatized MediCare Drug Program Provides Worse Coverage than Public Programs
FTCR Calls on Feds to Allow MediCare to Take Over Drug Program
Mar 21, 2006
Privacy
Big-Bucks Fund-Raiser Draws Governor’s Backers to Beverly Hills
City News Service "When he ran for office, he said that he was going to make fundamental changes to the system and…
Mar 20, 2006
Healthcare
Cal Medicare and Universal Health Care
Play a Video Game, Win Universal Health Care
Mar 18, 2006
Energy
Angelides’ past tactic to tap corporate funds now under scrutiny;
Governor's race puts new spotlight on 1989 donationsTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) Jamie Court, who heads the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer…
Mar 16, 2006
Insurance
Another Step for Small-biz Health Bill
CFO.com "When 45 million Americans cannot afford health care at same time health insurance profits triple, we clearly need more regulation to…
Mar 16, 2006