If you're scared . . .
Yeah, I'm scared, I think we're all scared. I'm thinking about Americans losing their homes, sleeping in their cars. I'm thinking about Americans losing their jobs and their health care. I'm...
View ArticleAs many predicted, health insurance costs skyrocketing, insured Americans...
As the debate played out during the contentious summer of 2009 before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, many were deeply concerned that the insurance industry would escalate its war against the...
View Article#ows unaffordable healthcare + sharply dropping income= death for the 99%
I went to Occupy Wall Street the other day. It's remarkable. I haven't seen anything like this since the 1960s during the peak of the Vietnam War. Something is happening, it's real, you can feel it...
View ArticleWendell Potter: AHIP, you're next, Occupy Wall Street coming after you
Preach it, Wendell. In a masterful article, Kossack Wendell Potter, predicts that AHIP and the for-profit insurance industry, the American system of for-profit health care is high (very high) on the...
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ALL HANDS: #ows soon to be under siege Tweet @NYCMayorsOffice
We need a real show of force, remember what you guys did for Nataline Sarkisyan, we need that outpouring again. Please man your battle stations and begin relentless tweeting to Mayor Bloomberg...
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On the front lines in Times Square, NYPD in full fight mode
Before I tell you about this extraordinary day, I need to get something off my chest. I've been waiting since November 4th, 2000 for this day to arrive. When our election was stolen, I was ready to...
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Protesters document NYPD horses ramming in Times Sq. make this video viral...
These two videos of violent NYPD crowd control using horses to ram into non-violent protesters (the second video is below the fold) deserve viral attention. The videos shows in horrifying detail...
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Taking back our country is hard work: The ABCs of organizing a march against...
We're organizing a large march against the for-profit health insurance corporations for October 26th. We hope thousands will join us to demand real healthcare reform. Single payer, Medicare for...
View ArticleFox and OWS: Sean Hannity, what happened to my interview? UPDATE: with video
Fox is doing it's level best to portray OWS as a coven of demented hippies. Jesse LaGreca was interviewed by them several weeks ago and fortunately there was another video camera which captured the...
View ArticleALL HANDS: Need show of force today in NYC #OWS march against Murder By...
Had enough? Uninsured? Wondering where's the 'affordable' healthcare we were promised? Sick of bought and paid for politicians? MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD TODAY - AT OCCUPY WALL STREET Healthcare for the...
View ArticleMajor police activity #OWS thousands have taken over lower Broadway in NYC -...
Apologies for this brief diary. Happening at this moment. Live streaming by Ustream
View ArticleMy friend, NYPD Captain John D'Adamo, protecting our First Amendment rights
Given the terrible police brutality in Oakland, I wrote a comment in brooklynbadboy's diary about the wonderful NYPD police captain I had the pleasure of working with yesterday. Several people...
View ArticleNYPD & FDNY in Zuccotti Park removing generators - live on Ustream
People, the FDNY and NYPD are in Zuccotti Park removing the bio diesel fuel generators. I've spent considerable time at Z Park, and there are a few generators, one for example, providing light for the...
View ArticleDemand winter tenting for ALL #ows cold weather locations UPDATE: Ustream now...
There is snow in New York today. We really need to get in front of the problem of a winter occupation. I'm going to speak now of the City of New York, the government of Mayor Bloomberg, the city where...
View ArticleFOIA request reveals Zuccotti Park owners Brookfield Properties heavily...
There's important new information turning up about Brookfield Properties, the owner of Zuccotti Park, thanks to a FOIA filing by a wonderful web site called Good Jobs New York. Who owns subsidized the...
View ArticleBlistering indictment of U.S. healthcare system from Dr. Oz explains why we...
There was a free health clinic recently held in Los Angeles. Dr Mehmet Oz was one of the volunteer doctors, and he's written a particularly scathing and brutal article in Time magazine about what he...
View ArticleALL HANDS: Health insurance catastrophe unfolding in New York, why we must...
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield which is the largest insurer in New York State, (owned by Wellpoint) is effectively pulling out of the small group market, effective April 12, 2012. I have my small group...
View ArticleJack Abramoff is only half the story, the other half starts with the letter 'D'
Lefty Coaster has a terrific diary on political corruption a la Jack Abramoff. But that's only half the story. Jack Abramoff was on 60 Minutes last night talking about corruption in the halls of...
View ArticleALL HANDS: If you live in NY, you need to go to Zuccotti Park now
This is going to be very short. Based on the text alert system established by OWS, thousands are expected to converge on Zuccotti Park within the next hour or two. Here's a copy of Judge Stallman's...
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Very disturbing videos of NYPD
On Wednesday evening, November 16th, I had an appointment to meet someone at the Starbucks next to Zuccotti Park. We spent several hours talking. After we finished it was probably around 8 or 8:30, I...
View ArticleI've been busy . . . We Are Unstoppable #OWS
Some holiday cheer. I've been busy running around New York with The Sign. That's me in the light green jacket. We're going to be taking The Sign all around the city, during the holiday season. If you...
View ArticleExtremely sick Americans overwhelming federal high risk insurance pools
Those Americans who have been denied insurance simply because they need it--because they are sick, are finally accessing care through the federal high risk pools created by the Affordable Care Act....
View ArticleA grieving mother places blame on our government for critically ill and...
Carol Anne Keltner posted on California One Care's Wall. "My daughter is in ICU at this moment with no insurance (4th time with pneumonia in 1 1/2 years). She has a small chance of surviving and none...
View ArticleAt long last, Death Panel identified, angel of death outted
There's an interesting, and I would argue, horrifying article on the front page of the New York Times today, about the historic upcoming arguments before the SCOTUS on the Affordable care Act. It's...
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Unaffordable co-pays and deductibles, death by a million cuts for insured...
If we had a functioning healthcare system, sick people would be able to access care and healthy people would not fear the financial consequences of illness. We're told by politicians from both...
View ArticleBest reporting I've seen on SCOTUS and ACA and an American pleads for healthcare
This will be a rather quick diary because both pieces I want to bring to your attention are far more eloquent than I could ever be on this, most consequential day. I simply want to say that though I...
View ArticleMaternity care out-the-window for millions of women if anti-choice SCOTUS...
I thought I knew as much as anyone about the barbaric state of the American healthcare system. Well this morning, I learned something even I didn't know. Right now in the United States of America,...
View ArticleLittle transparency in U.S. healthcare pricing: isn't a colonoscopy supposed...
There was an extraordinary diary the other day by Deep Harm on healthcare pricing. Today, the New York Times has a scathing look at how anesthesiologists bill for their services during routine...
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Things could not be any worse for those forced to buy individual health...
Remember when President Obama pledged that if you like your doctor, and if you like your insurance you can keep it? This is a link to a very brief video of him making this commitment in a weekly...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg: "sharp disagreement rate will go up next week and the week...
If you start to read the tea leaves, particularly the tea leaves Justice Ruth Ginsburg dropped last night, I'm thinking SCOTUS is going to eviscerate if not destroy outright the ACA. “It is likely...
View ArticleSomber words from Robert Reich, Marcia Angell MD, and others on life after...
The New York Times has an important cross section of opinion about what we might expect after the SCOTUS ruling. The analysis is critical reading for everyone wondering where this storm is headed....
View ArticleMore expert information/speculation on SCOTUS and the ACA
What follows is some of the more interesting stuff I've been reading over the last several hours on how the SCOTUS decision on the ACA might play out, and when we might get this historic decision. And...
View ArticleReady, really ready for a fight . . . WITH UPDATE
UPDATE: Here's an excellent article by Jonathan Chait on what to expect from SCOTUS just posted on the New York Magazine website. Are you ready for a showdown? I am. It's intolerable and unacceptable...
View ArticleAmericans enrolled in the ACA Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan are very,...
Bensdad made a very appropriate commentabout a pivotal reason we are facing the possible (likely?) dismantling of the Affordable Care Act. He said: Which is why the only way to ensure the survival of...
View ArticleHealthcare economist Uwe Reinhardt handicaps SCOTUS on the ACA
I'm literally sick with worry about what we're facing next week. So what do I do? I read and read and read, hoping to find someone with something interesting or enlightening to say. No one is better...
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#singlepayer #Medicareforall - Uninsured, stage 4 cancer, and 6 months from...
My name is Jane Lang of Salem, N.H., a 64-years-young woman without health insurance and this is my story. This is a photo of Jane and the nurses who helped her. Jane was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer...
View ArticleUrgent new warnings from Wendell Potter #singlepayer #MedicareforAll
Thanks to JoeDemocrat for pointing me to this article in the Huffington Post by our friend, great American, and fellow Kossack Wendell Potter, How Obama and the Democrats Got Played by the Insurance...
View ArticleOur 'starter home' the ACA, our mansion, Medicare for All-UPDATE: AHIP...
UPDATE - The AHIP threat statement : Cost Impact of Other ACA Provisions The health care reform law includes a number of provisions that will increase the cost of health care coverage: According to a...
View ArticleMore Aurora anguish: In U.S. uninsured victims of gun violence also face...
This has got to be one of the most heartbreaking diaries I've ever written. This is an only-in-America situation, which in my opinion, has not been properly covered by the media. We've heard about...
View ArticleNew Commonwealth Fund Report: By all metrics, Medicare outperforms private...
Here's the take home message, the money quote, if you will, of this important new Commonwealth Fund study. The experiences of people covered by Medicare and those with private employer insurance can...
View ArticleHighmark, official USOC health insurance supplier, sells junk insurance to...
Well, it looks like the broken, collapsed and shameful American "healthcare" system has even crawled up the ass of elite Olympic athletes. Highmark is a proud official Olympic supplier. Highmark even...
View ArticleWhen a leader of the Republican Party receives a deadly diagnosis. . .
Representative Dave Camp was just diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Dave Camp is a leader in the Republican Party, the Chairman of the House ways and Means Committee. Dave is committed, like all...
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Paul Ryan: 47 percenter-in-chief, and his government healthcare
Along with the 2011 Romney tax returns, Romney/Ryan released some health information. So while they go around the country railing about repealing Obamacare, keep in mind what Paul Ryan considers...
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I'm about to pay $8665 a year for crappy high deductible insurance in NYS
Quick disclaimer.I am a fierce champion of single payer. I am on the board of California OneCare, one of the most active single payer organizations in California. But right now, we are several...
View ArticleNew study: Single payer healthcare could save 1.8 trillion over 10 years
I am rooting for Obamacare to succeed. That does not mean we should abandon single payer.I'm not a single payer nihilist, though there are plenty of people who believe the road to single payer runs...
View ArticleBottom line: Obamacare really is for the 99%
The right wing, led by the moral reprobates at Freedom Works are determined to sabotage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act. They are targeting 18- 34 year olds, the cohort most critical to the...
View ArticleTweet @HarryReid and thank him for supporting #singlepayer
Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader told Nevada PBS yesterday that Obamacare was "absolutely a first step toward single payer.If anyone can get a link and put it up on You Tube, I'll embed it right...
View ArticleTenet Healthcare Wall St. conf. call reveals system plagued by high...
There are several huge inherent problems with high deductible junk insurance.High deductible insurance shifts what is called first dollar coverage from the insurer to the consumer. This is why it is...
View ArticleTidal wave of support from Americans long denied access to basic healthcare,...
UPDATE:JUST POSTED ON N.Y. HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE: Attention:Due to overwhelming interest in the NY State of Health - including 2 million visits in the first 2 hours of the site launch - the health...
View ArticleShrill AHIP warnings that 2015 rates will skyrocket means single payer must...
AHIP is guaranteeing huge premium increases.And the AHIP warnings reached a crescendo today, after the Obama announcement.The announcement by President Obama, that there will be a one year reprieve so...
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