I found a report on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Web site that told me what I suspected all along: Tort reform doesn’t being down medical costs; it just covers the insurance companies’ gigantic butts.
Before Mike died, he asked me not to sue anyone over the awful treatment he got. He wanted me to do [...]
For awhile there, it looked like Life o’ Mike’s mission might be accomplished in the coming year.
Not that I really believed that, mind you. The insurance industry is going to fight really hard to keep things the way they are. It doesn’t matter how many people suffer and die, as long as they make their [...]
I’m as upset as anyone about AIG and the abject greed there. I have to say, though, the company isn’t acting in a vacuum. For early 30 years, we have reduced regulation, all the while believing big business will do the right thing if left to its own devices.
As a teenage hippie in the late 1960s, [...]
An Associated Press story today said the nationn’s fragile health care safety net is unraveling. Like I wasn’t expecting that.With more people unemployed and more people in financial trouble, fewer people are ale to pay for care. One survey of 1,200 doctors found that 88 percent of them have treated patients that had been turned down [...]
I met with a community organizer from Consumers Union today. They’re the people who put out Consumer Reports, and they’re working toward health care for all Americans.
One thing he told me is that we’re in for a tough fight. The health insurance companies don’t want to give up the scam they have now — unfettered [...]
Life o’ Mike board member and friend Carolyn Comeau had good test results last week — her breast cancer is at bay.
But every day, Carolyn wakes up and wonders if she will be the one to raise her two children. It’s a scary way to live.
Carolyn was lucky. She had health insurance. But when her [...]
Beginning on Feb. 26, the anniversary of when we found out for sure Mike’s cancer was back, I’ve been running through the day-by-day remember-when.
It’s called anniversary syndrome.
A year ago today we still had him. We knew we were going to lose him, but it hadn’t happened yet. We didn’t know what life would be like without [...]
Richard Kirsch, campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, in a piece on Huffington Post, vows to fight the insurance industry, which already is gearing up to fight President Obama’s plan to provide health care for all Americans.
Harry and Louise came back last summer, this time sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, [...]