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On AlterNet: insurance

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "insurance"

Health-Care Crisis Endangers Economy

Health-Care Crisis Endangers Economy

Jason Leopold, Consortium News. July 6, 2008.
A new report urges policymakers to find a solution to the health-care crisis; long-term fiscal problems may develop if the issue is not addressed.

Fund Health Care, Not War

Fund Health Care, Not War

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. June 19, 2008.
The old claims of a justified war in Iraq have melted away. So have promises of a humane society back at home.

Hospital Attempts Deportation of Woman With Inadequate Insurance

Hospital Attempts Deportation of Woman With Inadequate Insurance

Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Immigration. May 19, 2008.
An immigrant women from Honduras - with legal documentation - faces deportation because her insurance does not cover long-term care.

Evangelical Doctor Touts Better Health Care Plan Than Clinton, Obama

Evangelical Doctor Touts Better Health Care Plan Than Clinton, Obama

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 6, 2008.
Unlike Clinton or Obama, Dr. Rocky White, an Evangelical from a conservative background, is promoting a single-payer health care system.

Health Care's Odd Couple

Health Care's Odd Couple

Ezra Klein, The American Prospect. March 18, 2008.
Sens. Wyden and Bennett are starting to build a bipartisan consensus around health care -- despite their opposing political views.

Sinking SCHIP: A Mother's Letter to Congress

Sinking SCHIP: A Mother's Letter to Congress

Annabelle Gurwitch, TheNation.com. October 19, 2007.
One woman argues that she is a lazy, degenerate, breast-bearing freeloader, and her child -- not Graeme Frost -- should be ridiculed by the right-wing media over his kidney condition. Seriously.

Why Does Everyone Bow Down to the Health Insurance Industry?

Why Does Everyone Bow Down to the Health Insurance Industry?

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. September 24, 2007.
After facing down the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, the U.S.S.R., Saddam Hussein, the United States has met an enemy it dares not confront -- the American private health insurance industry.

How Do We Cure a Sick Health Care System?

How Do We Cure a Sick Health Care System?

Terrence McNally, AlterNet. September 4, 2007.
Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.

Insurance fraud:

Insurance fraud: "If they wait long enough... the policyholders will die."

Amy Traub, AlterNet: PEEK. March 26, 2007.
Amy Traub: Insurance companies make money when they don't pay claims...

Wal-Mart's Rapidly Shrinking Benefits

Wal-Mart's Rapidly Shrinking Benefits

Cindy Zeldin, TomPaine.com. October 17, 2006.
The mega-store is sinking to a new low by further limiting health insurance options for its lowest-paid employees.