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Health Care Rally Moscone Center

Written by John Metz

One June 19, 2008 AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) held their 2008 convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Health Insurance executives and lobbyists came to talk about "insurance reform" and so did about 2,500 demonstrators that showed up to protest the meeting and demand "real" universal health care. Learn about California State Senator Sheila Kuehl's bill SB 840 (California Health Insurance Reliability Act) and nationally for Congressman John Conyer's HR 676 (The United States National Health Insurance Act)
Visit: www.healthcareforall.org , www.hr676.org , www.justhealthnow.org

HealthNet and Anthem Blue Cross sued over rescissions

Written by Lisa Girion - LA Times Staff
Anthem Blue Cross sued over rescissions - Link to Article The state's largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, was accused Wednesday of a widespread pattern of false advertising and fraud in a $1-billion lawsuit that claims that the company's coverage "is largely illusory." The suit says more than 500,000 people were tricked into buying individual and family policies from Blue Cross. "Countless Californians who believe they have insurance actually have policies that aren't worth the paper they're printed on"
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WHY JUSTHEALTH EXISTS

Written by JustHealth Board of Directors

JustHealth exists because we have a healthcare system that is cheating the American people out of the healthcare goods and services for which we are already paying. As a result, millions of Americans get sick, get sicker, stay sick longer, suffer more, die sooner - and often go bankrupt in the process.

JustHealth's mission is to fix this and create a just healthcare system.

We work to accomplish this by:

1. Educating the public about the true state of our current healthcare system;

2. Taking action to protect consumers and providers from dangerous, deceptive, dishonest, unfair or unlawful acts and practices;

3. Proposing and supporting legislation and regulations that will foster a just healthcare system; and

4. Being an advocate for consumers and providers in every available forum.

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Blue Shield Denies New Cancer Treatment Claim

Written by Anna Werner
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) â€• A huge robotic machine has helped some doctors combat cancer in difficult to treat cases, but not everyone with insurance has been covered for it. Link to Source =>
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Blindsided by Bills - What Insurance Won't Pick Up

Written by Lisa Fletcher - ABC15

If you've ever been stuck with a medical bill you thought your insurance was going to pay but didn't, you can count yourself among millions in the same boat.

And it's a boat that's sinking fast.

It's estimated that nearly 60 percent of all bankruptcies are because of medical bills.

But what if the bill should have been paid by your insurance...but wasn't?

Or the hospital charged you a rate virtually no one pays, all because you didn't know what you were entitled to?

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Medical Non-Privacy: Are records getting faxed to random people?

Written by Joe Ducey
Getting unwanted faxes is one thing. But what if these faxes contained personal medical information about someone else. It doesn't happen to all of us, but it did happen to Susan Peacock of Phoenix. The most recent fax she received showed a man's complete medical records, including his conditions like diabetes and tobacco addiction. "I'm receiving faxes that don't belong to me," Susan said. Everything from illnesses to treatment plans, it's all right here before her eyes. -- Go to Original Story =>
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Even the Insured Feel Strain of Health Costs

Written by REED ABELSON and MILT FREUDENHEIM
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs. Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and co-payments.
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The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketersâ€™ Dirty Tactics

Written by Melody Petersen
By the time Melody Petersen gets around to interviewing Iowa’s state nosologist near the end of “Our Daily Meds,” the facts that she cites don’t even sound that grim. The nosologist’s job is to catalog Iowa’s deceased according to cause of death. He processes about 27,000 death certificates a year. And by his reckoning there were only five deaths caused by adverse reactions to prescription drugs in 2002. That low figure is jarringly out of whack with Ms. Petersen’s investigative reporting in an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.
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Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare

Written by Sara Robinson - ourfuture.org

Mythbusting Canadian Health Care - Part I

In the universal health care debate, Canada is once again getting dragged into the fracas, shoved around by both sides as either an exemplar or a warning - and, along the way, getting coated with the obfuscating dust of so many willful misconceptions that the actual facts about How Canada Does It are completely obscured in the melee.

As a health-care-card-carrying Canadian resident and an uninsured American citizen who regularly sees doctors on both sides of the border, I'm in a unique position to address the pros and cons of both systems first-hand