Bailout – Healthcare-NOW

Healthcare-NOW! Members Oppose Current Version of Congressional Health Bill

Over 125 Healthcare-NOW! members at our 2009 strategy conference voted to oppose the current Congressional version of health insurance reform legislation. While we recognize that many of our allies and supporters may disagree about specific aspects of the pending legislation, we believe that, taken as a whole, it is not worthy of our support. In…

Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk

Michele Swenson, of HuffingtonPost.com, writes: The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers. It’s called gaming the system for profit – whether it’s Wall Street investments in dubious credit instruments for massive short-term…