from HealthJustice (Clark Newhall MD JD)

Health Insurance Horror Stories
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Congressmen Conyers and Kucinich need your health insurance horror story. They particularly need stories that show "keeping the health insurance you have " and the "Massachusetts plan" are bogus solutions. So if you are from Massachusetts or if you got screwed even though you were insured, write your story here. It will become a free fax to the White House but will also be used by single payer supporters in Congress to illustrate why the insurance companies do not belong in health care.

Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I

Dr. Rachel Nardin, who heads the Massachusetts chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, noted that having health insurance was not the same as getting health care. Thirteen percent of people in the state who had insurance still could not pay for some health services, and 13 percent could not pay for their medicines, she said. Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor at the Harvard Medical School, explained how the law encouraged the overuse of costly high-tech care while damaging the finances of safety-net hospitals.

Remember that Congressional hearing on the Massachusetts experiment in "universal health care" that you were supposed to invite your Congresscritter to [and did you?]?


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