July 31, 2010, marked the forty fifth anniversary of the passage of Medicare, hailing praise from almost every Democratic politico, and rightly so.  An article from The Nation, On the Anniversary of Medicare Comes a Renewed Call for ‘Medicare for All’. shows the path from President Roosevelt to President Obama and their battles to provide [...]

Happy Birthday Medicare! For the past 45 years government run health care has provided millions of American Seniors with comprehensive health care. Hopefully there will be more celebrations as health care becomes a reality for 300 million Americans. Thanks for reading!

“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 [...]

I don’t like to think of the health care reform in the terms of winners or losers, but let’s face it, a heavyweight boxing match was displayed on the floor of capital hill. In one corner, President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, were trying to bring some kind of health care [...]

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 [...]

Ok, so a previous post I talked about Senator Feinstein and I wasn’t pleased with her reluctance regarding the public option. However, according to Courage Campaign Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein signed their names to a letter on Thursday insisting that the Senate include a strong public option in the merged health care bill. This [...]

This is a short one, but I wanted to tell you that President Barack Obama will be on The Late Show with Dave Letterman on Monday September 21st.  The Late Show. It is the first time that a sitting President will appear on The Late Show. As a long time fan of Dave Letterman, I [...]

Okay, I was pretty happy with the President’s speech to Congress  regarding  health care reform. If you didn’t watch please do at Presidential Speech to Congress So now what? Now, we as millions of Americans who need health care should let our members of Congress know how we feel and ask them to support President [...]

The following is an excerpt from Helen Thomas’ blog dated August 26, 2009. Show Some Spine, Mr. President Obama Seems Loathe To Pressure Democrats Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist WASHINGTON — “President Barack Obama should stop trying to win bipartisan support for national health care reform legislation.Obama seems loath to put pressure on fellow [...]