Healthcare (or the Lack Thereof)

Looking at the conservative ‘heritage’ of some core ACA features (February 28, 2017)

Go Fund Yourself (January 2018)

Lottery winner dies weeks after cashing in $1 million scratch-off ticket (January 30, 2018)

Back to the Health Policy Drawing Board (March 16, 2018)


A Baby Was Treated With A Nap And A Bottle Of Formula. The Bill Was $18,000 (July 2, 2018)


A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills (October 4, 2018)


Carrie Ann Lucas, Disability Rights Activist and Attorney, Dies Following Denial From Insurance Company (February 25, 2019)


Medi-Cal recipient, 101, evicted from Santa Rosa assisted living facility for being unable to pay (May 2, 2019)


RAND Study: Hospitals Charging The Privately Insured 2.4 Times What They Charge Medicare Patients (May 11, 2019)


As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage (May 16, 2019)


Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than in Cuba (January 18, 2019)

 

 

 

I honest-to-god got a bill for the EMTs telling me my son was dead. This is just among the zillion goddamn reasons we need universal healthcare (May 24, 2021)

The Government Just Admitted An Inconvenient Truth (February 25, 2022)

Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID (June 13, 2022)

That Starbucks is offering reproductive healthcare for its employees but warning it will not do so for unionized employees shows employer-provided healthcare for what it is, which is a labor disciplining device. (June 27, 2022)

TWITTER: I have spent the last 3 days trying to get chemo approved for a patient, and this whole time my patient is not getting treatment as his cancer progresses. An insurance company has decided they know better than the patients oncologist what chemotherapy regimen they should be on. (July 20, 2022)

Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It’s 100% Preventable. (November 1, 2021)

Healthcare, college education, and childcare started getting worse decades ago. Now we're all finally feeling it. (April 8, 2023)