Random Acts of Insurance Cruelty: So Yes, Sign This Petition

I just heard a story that you need to hear too:  A few years ago, Melanie Shouse was living the American dream when she transformed an old Dominos storefront into an expansion of her home business. But just as the store was opening, Melanie was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and given months to [...]

Healthcare Reform: Real People, Real Issues Discussed by Silicon Valley Moms Group

We’re so glad to see other sites and online groups discuss healthcare reform by using real examples of insurers gone wild. In fact, the Silicon Valley Moms Group began a 2-Day Virtual Town Hall in which they’ve invited women from all over the country to blog about their personal experiences in what can only be [...]

Single Women for Single Payer Healthcare: Sign the SMW Petition!

If you are a single woman, right now you are the forgotten constituent in this very important healthcare reform debate.
In previous articles, we’ve explained that single women in their twenties – pay more than men the same age.
(I guess that’s a way for our insurance companies to tell us that we’re high maintenance. That’s okay: they are [...]

Keith Olbermann: Follows the Money in Healthcare Hang-Ups

The biggest issue facing our country today is that of health reform. To have healthcare that covers everyone in the country who desires it, the Congress would have to mandate and fund Single Payer Healthcare. But the companies whose profits are at stake – that is, insurance, pharmaceuticals and hospital corporation – would prefer that [...]

Single Women, Listen Up! You Have the Most to Lose in the Single Payer Healthcare Debate

Single women are the majority in the United States. According to the latest United States Census figures, 51.5 percent of our female population is women ages 15 and over who are either single, divorced, widowed, or separated. And yet, 49% of all single women– or almost 30.8 million of them –  are uninsured.
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Yo, Joe Lieberman: Single Women Want YOUR Healthcare Plan

Joe Lieberman, the “independent” (read: up for the highest bid) senator from Connecticut, wants to make sure single women don’t have a public healthcare option.
In fact,  he’s willing to join the Republicans in a filibuster.
Despite Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s claim to have respect for this man, I make no such claims at all.
Connecticut unemployment [...]

Bill Moyers: How Insurers Keep Single Women from Healthcare

It’s America’s ongoing nightmare, a black hole into which billions of dollars vanish and hope for a positive outcome often looks bleak.
No I’m not talking about Iraq, I’m talking about the state of American healthcare.
As the Obama Administration mounts the first serious effort since the first Clinton administration to establish a healthcare program that will [...]