Posts Tagged ‘blue cross blue shield’
Let’s stop pretending it was a government takeover of healthcare
By Deborah Burger for The Hill – If the Obama healthcare bill is just a “government takeover,” why are healthcare industry CEOs being rewarded with so much money? The alleged expropriation of healthcare by big government is, of course, a major story line of the right and the new leadership of the House which is…
Read MoreMassachusetts doctors snub state’s health reform as model for country, pick single-payer system instead
BOSTON – For the first time the Massachusetts Medical Society has asked doctors what they think about health reform in its annual “Physician Workforce Survey” of 1,000 practicing physicians in the state, and the results may strike some as surprising. A plurality of the physician respondents, 34 percent, picked single-payer health reform as their preferred…
Read More“I’m staying in police custody until we have health care for all”
Los Angeles, CA – Sam Pullen, 31, was arrested yesterday in Los Angeles at a sit-in at the Blue Cross health insurance office. He is refusing to give information to police, vowing to stay in jail until Blue Cross stops denying care to those who need it most. He is being supported by the group…
Read MoreNine More Go to Jail for Single Payer
By David Swanson – Following a pattern of civil resistance in Washington D.C. and around the country, citizens in Des Moines Iowa on Monday risked arrest to press for the creation of single-payer healthcare, the establishment of healthcare as a human right, and an end to the deadly practices of Iowa’s largest health insurance company,…
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