Who Tells the Dead Patient Stories Now?

by Donna Smith – Since the health insurance reform bill passed this past spring, you’d think we suddenly stopped having American patients die and suffer unimaginable horror at the hands of the... 

Humiliation and Shame: Part of Being Insured in America

By Donna Smith – Oh, the things we did not fix in the healthcare bill are shocking. Just as seniors falling into the Medicare drug benefit donut hole begin to get the $250 checks meant to calm... 

The Baucus 8 One Year Later (Video)

On May 5, 2009, 8 health advocates stood up to the members of the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Max Baucus, to expose the exclusion of the health reform favored by the majority of people... 

Everybody In, Nobody Out: At Temple and Beyond an Injury to One is an Injury to All

By Donna Smith – When you see the faces of the members of PASNAP (Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals) on strike at Temple University Hospital and perhaps most especially... 

When the Health Reform Truth Oozes Out: And it isn’t Just

By Donna Smith – Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of President Obama during Wednesday’s... 

Don’t It Make Your Wide Eyes Cry, Iowa? Another Cancer Patient Grovels

By Donna Smith – Some patient stories just fill me with anger and shame. This one – from Iowa – is one of those stories. By now, we all know the plot. Patient has insurance. Patient gets... 

Repubs, Dems, Blue Dogs and Tea Partiers: Everybody Loves Medicare

By Donna Smith - President Obama keeps torturing himself and the 111th Congress by trying to come up with new ways to work together and a single healthcare reform effort that all could embrace politically,... 

Everybody In, Nobody Out: Disaster Speaks a Noble Truth

by Donna Smith - Everybody in, nobody out. It’s the battle cry of millions of people throughout the United States who believe healthcare is a basic human right and who advocate for Medicare for... 

Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment

By Donna Smith - Sickening. Saddening. Maddening. And the stuff of future determination in the political struggle for healthcare for all in the United States. On the floor of the U.S. Senate today,... 

Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare

By Donna Smith - As my grandmother used to say, “I was born on a weekend but not last weekend.” The latest insult to Americans hungry for a bit of healthcare justice for all comes from the... 

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