Target Fires NY Union Organizer: Boycott?
Remember the heroic effort made by Target employees at the Valley Stream, NY store to unionize? Well, it looks like the courageous employee behind the effort has now been fired on less-than-kosher...
View ArticleWoman Dying Of Bone Cancer Holds Yard Sale To Pay Bills; Salem Shuts It Down
File this story from Salem, Oregon in the "only in America" category: A woman fighting a terminal form of bone cancer is trying to raise money to help pay bills with a few weekend garage sales, but...
View ArticleFederal Gov't Saving Lives During Drug Shortage; Free Market? Not So Much
The "free market" for drugs is, well, working worse than ever. From the NY Times: Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for...
View ArticleGAG ME! Aetna's Profiteering CEO Steals MLK Words To Corp. Whitewash; Will Be...
Aetna, the big-profit insurance company that refuses to sacrifice profitability for membership (i.e. providing Americans with access to doctors), is trotting out CEO Mark Bertolini in an effort to...
View ArticleBig-Profit Health Insurers' Worst Nightmare: Wendell Potter Offers To Help...
Until we arrive at the Medicare-for-all system that this country needs and deserves, we are stuck with sending huge portions of our salaries to the big-profit bloodsuckers at Aetna, CIGNA, Humana, et...
View ArticleToday, I cut up my health insurance card.
Yes, I cut it up -- six, seven -- maybe eight or nine -- different ways. As a student in the UK for the next year, I am eligible for full services under the National Health Service. It was not hard to...
View ArticleToday, I made my first visit to an NHS clinic.
Today, I registered at a British NHS clinic. It was, well, a non event. Here's what I did see: -A modern facility with magazines, television and soft chairs for waiting. -Friendly staff that...
View ArticleDear Cigna, how much do your TV ads cost in, you know, doctor visits? (No)...
Charming: Cigna is rebranding itself to better appeal to individuals. So, I'm just wondering -- and I tweeted a question to "@Cignaquestions" -- how much money these ads and logos cost in terms of...
View ArticleSICKENING: Cigna Health Insurance Engages in Facebook Censorship
As you know, I wrote the other day about how appalling the fact is that Cigna is spending millions on a new, sexy, trendy "Go You!" advertising campaign in a country in which 46,000 people die...
View ArticlePrivate Health Insurers Do NOTHING Of Value, Or The Anti-Steve Jobs
I'll keep today's post short and promise not to post anything more about my disgust with Cigna's "Go You" advertising campaign. Prior to today, I've already done that here and here. Anyway, I find it...
View ArticleWhite House Medicare-For-All Petition; Let's Blow This Out Of The Water!
Let's show the White House that the American people are tired of big-profit insurance companies denying care to our loved ones and profiting from human suffering. Sign this petition to force the White...
View ArticleMy First NHS Appointment: Easy, Quick...FREE.
Today, I had my first appointment at my local NHS clinic in Borough, London. After registering last week, I was asked to come back a week later for a "check up" appointment. (Note to big-profit Cigna...
View ArticleWalmart Is Key To Single Payer
Let's keep this short, because I'd love to hear everyone's ideas. So, you know how pitting "big retail" against "big, arguably more immoral banks" led to banks getting screwed in swipe fees. Well,...
View ArticleBreaking News: Big-Profit Health Insurers Prefer Single Payer
Well, not the single payer systems like you have in Canada or Australia where all residents have the right to taxpayer-financed health care from birth to grave. And not the Medicare system that our...
View ArticleExtreme-Profit Insurers to Supreme Court: Save Our Mandate!
Looks like the extreme-profit insurers are getting nervous: The health insurance industry is urging the Supreme Court to decide as quickly as it can whether the federal health care law is, in fact,...
View ArticleJob-Killing Aetna Axes 400 CT Employees
Remember when asshole Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini threatened to axe CT employees if the SustiNet public option was allowed to become a reality? Well, the state's Democratic governor caved on the public...
View ArticleInsurance Company Denies 10K Claim For "Too Early" Heart Attack
Yup, Chris Nygren of San Francisco had his emergency heart surgery -- you know, a heart attack is an emergency -- denied twice by Allstate because he had the temerity to go to the emergency room five...
View ArticleWhat would you "give up" for single payer?
I'll keep this short. The research is very clear -- health care is the one area of social policy that it is best not to turn over to the market and private sector. Education, transport -- even water...
View Article1% Greed: US Airways Refuses to Refund Tickets for Terminal Cancer Patient
File this in the only-in-America corporate greed and public relations stupidity folder. US Airways, the airline that once tried to charge us for the right to consume potable water on its planes, is...
View ArticleBREAKING: Maldives joins Mexico, Costa Rica in Universal Health Care; 50...
Americans don't deserve a public option -- we're too poor to provide health care for all. But, look who is beating us to the punch. Yup, the Maldives: Parliament yesterday passed a bill to bring...
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