Wonder how many people are dying because they don’t have insurance? Check out Families USA’s study on state-by-state numbers f0r the years 2000 to 2006.
http://familiesusa.org/issues/uninsured/publications/dying-for-coverage.html
The total is a little shy of the study by the Institute of Medicine and the Urban League, but it’s chilling nevertheless.
Statistics always lag two to three years behind, especially on [...]
This wouldn’t give affordable healthcare to everyone, but it’s a start.
According to the newspaper, The Hill, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) are working on a bill that would allow business associations such as the National Association of Realtors to offer group insurance plans that would put the cost of [...]
I don’t really care about sports, but I am a huge Duke fan. Almost irrationally so. My blue runs Duke Blue. When there was the controversy with their lacrosse team, I couldn’t believe they had done anything wrong. If it had been any other school, I would have thought something was suspicious with the whole [...]
I’ve had people tell me that Mike didn’t have insurance because he made bad choices. They’ve said if he had done everything right as a teenager he would have had a job that offered insurance.
I have to admit, Mike made some bad choices as a teenager. He became addicted to drugs and alcohol. But he [...]
A wonderful tribute to Michael, and to all who have died at the hands of our greedy, for-profit health care system. It is unconscionable that anyone in this land of obscene wealth should die because they lack access to health care. Even though I’m Mike’s aunt, I didn’t know him well. I’ve gotten to [...]
Since the federal government hasn’t moved in providing healthcare to all its citizens, states are starting to make moves to do it.
The problem here is that not every American citizen gets equal care. Check out this information on what some states are doing: http://www.kff.org/uninsured/kcmu_statehealthreform.cfm
Be sure to look at the PDF to see individual states’ proposals.
Only [...]
We are on a mission: Tell the stories of people who have died because they didn’t have health insurance. Mike was one of those people, and I was fortunate enough to be his mom for 33 years.
Mike was born Nov. 3, 1974 — my 22nd birthday. He had some medical problems that we later learned [...]
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