The Healthcare Coverage Post

So we’re not in a recession? Just ask families across America and they’ll tell you about their financial worries. In a recent nationwide study called “What Do Women Want?”, the Meredith Corporation and NBC Universal Healthcare polled 3,000 women on issues such as family, safety, and financial security. Study findings showed that women are very concerned about [...]

This is a heartbreaking example of how pathetic the US healthcare system can be. We can spend billions of dollars waging an illegal and immoral war, but can’t come up with a solution to  take care of our sick and injured.
Mark Windsor looks exhausted. For a week he’s been undergoing radiation treatment on a cancerous [...]

Access to Wellness   Here’s a website describing different programs providing free or discounted medications. I’ve known several people who have contacted them and received the medications they need for free. The web author writes . . .

Without health insurance, or without enough of it, you might have trouble getting the prescription medications you need. Or you might find [...]

It seems like yesterday I was in my twenties. I remember being in college and having my appendix out - the last thing on my mind as they were wheeling me into the operating room was how to pay for the surgery. Being twenty and not-so-aware of money management, I had a vague feeling that [...]

This is what the candidates are promising now, but is this just campaign rhetoric or will they deliver? Clinton promises the most change, Obama pledges a middle of the road plan, and McCain offers more of the same. All I know is that they’ve got to do something. . .

This video could be one of those Saturday Night Live commercials, it’s that good. People are saying ”hell no, I don’t need to stick around for just the health insurance.” Love the part about the coffee shop employee putting soap bubbles in the woman’s latte.
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In all seriousness, in an article from The American Prospect online, Ezra Klein writes:

After hearing the phrase “supporting the troops” so many times over the past few years, I’ve begun to think that the military isn’t listening to their own slogan. In the article “Lawmakers seek to ensure benefits for war’s ’sole survivors’”, the Los Angeles Times writes:
Nearly eight months ago, Iraq veteran and Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputy [...]

I always wondered how the Massachusetts Universal Healthcare program would work out, and now we’re starting to get a good idea.   
Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Virginia-based Galen Institute, says although the number of insured residents has risen by nearly 350,000 since Mitt Romney signed the law two years ago, virtually all of it is subsidized [...]