“Starting in September, some of the worst abuses will be banned forever. No more discriminating against children with pre-existing conditions. No more retroactively dropping somebody’s policy when they get sick if they made an unintentional mistake on an application. No more lifetime limits or restrictive annual limits on coverage. Those days are over.”      PRESIDENT BARACK [...]

The Affordable Care Act Becomes Law March 23, 2010 “On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The law puts in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will roll out over four years and beyond, with most changes taking place by 2014. Others have already begun.” The above is from HealthCare.gov, a [...]

The following was sent to me from Progressive Democrats of America. Please read the following. Join the Healthcare for All IOT call TONIGHT! Please join us for our Health Care for All/Single Payer conference call: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:00 p.m. ET, 8:00 p.m. CT, 7:00 p.m. MT, 6:00 p.m. PT Phone Number: (605) 475-4000, [...]

As I have mentioned before Anthem is a for-profit health insurance corporation. They are a corporation that prioritizes shareholders profits before their customers, hence the proposed 39% increase of monthly rates for almost 800,000 Californians, myself included. And if a proposed hike increase isn’t enough, it now seems that Anthem has broken the law up [...]

First of all, I never thought I would quote George W. Bush and sincerely mean it. But I do mean it when I say to my health care corporation “You’re Either With Us or Against Us.” From my interactions with Anthem, it’s apparent that this health care corporation is not with me or the 34 [...]

My last post was about an upcoming rally for Single Payer on Monday the 11th in Sacramento. I didn’t think the rally or single payer would get much coverage from the mainstream media. I was right. However, the progressive blog site Daily Kos: State of the Nation featured the rally and it became the number [...]

I obviously did not write the following, but “borrowed” it from The White House Blog.  Since my health insurance corporation is Wellpoint, I was interested in what the White House had to say to the health insurance giant. Reality Check: WellPoint Analysis Continues the Misinformation Campaign Posted by Jesse Lee on October 23, 2009 at [...]

On October 5th, I received an email from MoveOn.Org informing me of Dawn Smith’s story. In 2005, Dawn was diagnosed with a brain tumor—then in 2007, a second one. After a battery of tests, three doctors from three leading health care systems in the metro Atlanta area agreed that her only chance for a cure [...]

Ok so the following post I did not write, but copied from the group Health Care For America Now. If you can attend please do so, this is a great organization committed to informing the American public how insurance companies are getting away with murder. Ok that may have sounded a little on the dramatic [...]

I was introduced to Wendall Potter by the great Michael Moore. In July 09, Moore sent out a newsletter informing everyone that Bill Moyers would be interviewing Potter on his show, The Bill Moyers Journal. Wendell Potter held a variety of positions at CIGNA Corporation for over 15 years, serving most recently as head of [...]