FOUNDATION FIGHTS NEW NEMESIS April 2, 2008 - Universal Health Care Foundation today launched a "webtoon" called “The Insur-Animals.” The cartoon (click to view at right) uses half animal/half insurance executive villains (below) to show the absurdities of our health care system.A ...
DEDUCTIONS MAKING YOUR INSURANCE WORTHLESS? MEET DEDUCTIBEAR! April 2, 2008 - Hey kids, it’s your friendly neighborhood Human-Animal Hybrid Insurance Superhero, DeductiBear!
You know I wasn’t always this way. I had a normal life once — until one day when my associates and ...
"COVERED" DRUGS PUTTING YOU IN DEBT? MEET CO-PAY COBRA! April 2, 2008 - I’m a sssss-superhero, but I’m not performing a community service. You want my help, it will cost you. In fact, you want to know anything else about me, it will cost you.
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Wouldn’t it just be easier and cheaper to expand health care coverage in incremental steps? The health care system is too big and complicated to change at once.
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Done right, carefully thought-out steps can be a good start if they are part of a forward thinking, long-range solution with quality and affordable care for all as the end goal.
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Want A Better Health Care System? YOU Make the Call! Our legislators passed historic legislation that begins to address the health care crisis. The "HEALTHCARE PARTNERHIP" lets municipal employees, nonprofit organizations and small businesses participate in the state employee’s health plan (for more about the Partnership, go here). Click HERE to contact Governor Rell and urge her to STAND UP FOR US by signing the Partnership bill.
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Name: Lee Occupation: Web Developer Town: Norwalk
We are a micro-business. We would love to expand. For two people, with a huge deductible, we're paying about $8,000 per year. But we just received our increase: Our health insurance rate is jumping a whopping 46 percent! That wipes out any money we could use for expanding. And at these rates, there is no way we can afford to hire anyone. None of our vendors have passed along these kind of rate increases -- just health insurance.
Why are health insurance costs rising so obscenely when nothing else is rising at these rates? Not even oil is rising so fast!
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