The Healthcare Coverage Post

Although the Dutch are still working out the wrinkles, their health coverage system sounds promising. Our government officials should look into it (ahem… Hillary Clinton, anyone?). Their program has universal health coverage for all, along with a tightening of costs. The insurance services are delivered by private companies, not the government, which sounds good to me. [...]

Beth Broderick, television and movie actor (whom I fondly remember as Aunt Hildy from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, stars in“Insurance Jive”, an ad taking on the health insurance companies. The video is based on the story of Patsy Bates who was in treatment from breast cancer when she was kicked off her health insurance plan. The California Nurses Association [...]

I’ve been looking for awhile now for a resource that helps people with serious illnesses. Broadway producer David Landay, after dealing with serious illness and the healthcare system, created a web site called survivorshipatoz.org.  The practical, thoughtful site has loads of information about insurance, managing your care, finances, government benefits, employment issues, day-to-day living, and [...]

When filing State Income Taxes in Massachusetts this year, residents needed to show they had healthcare coverage. It’s not too bad a system for determining the number of people with coverage and the number of people who couldn’t afford it. But when it was determined that 100,000 people who could afford it chose not to, they were [...]