John McCain wants to do for health insurance what banking deregulation has done for our banking system. And, in the process, he will be handing over even bigger profits to the health insurance industry.
Read MoreThe Washington Post published a series this week on the health insurance choices people have to make. "Checking In, One Year Later," tells the stories of various people in different circumstances and the effects their health insurance choice had on them over the past year. These were people the paper had interviewed a year earlier as they were struggling to make the right choice. What emerge are stories of people who made the best choice they could—some won, some lost, but all remain vulnerable.
Read MoreWhether the topic is denials of care and coverage, excessive profits, huge out-of-pocket costs, retroactive disenrollments, or fraud, the stories about the bad practices of the health insurance industry are seemingly endless. Health insurers across the country are setting the rules: and, they are putting their profits before our health every way they can, leaving millions of us at risk.
Read MoreFifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies place on their patients’ care, according to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.
Families saw their premiums for job-based health insurance rise to an average of $13,375 annually in 2009, with workers paying an average share of $3,515 and employers paying $9,860.
