The Health Insurance Company Spin Machine

Health Care for all PA: "That isn't covered now...wait until you're seriously ill."

via Health Care for All Pennsylvania 'You Don't Get Another Chance'

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

Seattle Sheraton

August 16, 2010

California OneCare Video

Interview With HCFA-WA Past President Larry Kalb

Help Protect Insurance Company Executives

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

A Health Care Message To America (From Canada)

Why We Need Government Run Health Care

Humorous look at "Socialized" medicine.

Congressional Speech and Letters

Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) gave a speech on the floor of the house last week in support of universal coverage. View the video here.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, in support of a public plan. Several members of Congress sent  another letter to Nancy Pelosi stressing the importance of a robust public plan.

Bill Moyers Journal and Frontline

Last week, Bill Moyers hosted a conversation with former health insurance company insider Wendell Potter. This is powerful (and scary) news about how private health insurance companies operate.

PBS's Frontline compared health care plans in different countries in the segment Sick Around The World.

Prototype Ad

A prototype ad from the Rockridge Institute:

Sample TV Ad

A sample TV ad, designed using George Lakoff's theory of moral politics, intended to increase support for universal health care in the United States.

Sick around the World

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/

In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland --deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.

California Nurses Association

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/watch.html

In this weeks BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, Rose Ann Demaro, the Executive Director of the California Nurses Association, argued that calling America's approach to health care a "system" is inaccurate. If you look at health care in America, there is no health care "system." There's a health care industry whose major objective is profit-making - which means not providing the patient all of the care that they need, discharging patients early, patients without insurance being treated differently than wealthy people, frankly. And that is the health care "system" in America. Those who can afford it get to live and those who can't suffer needlessly.

Most Patients Happy with German Health Care

by Richard Knox | NPR Morning Edition

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91971406

 Mention European health care to an American, and it probably conjures up a negative stereotype - high taxes, long waiting lines, rationed care. It's not that way in Germany. Very little tax money goes into the system. The lion's share comes, as in America, from premiums paid by workers and employers to insurance companies.

France's Model Health Care for New Mothers

by Joseph Shapiro | NPR Morning Edition

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92116914

"When you're a new mother, you're very well taken care of in France," says Rodwin, a professor of health policy at New York University, who is also affiliated with the International Longevity Center. "They take very good care of their mothers when they're pregnant. There's, of course, no problem of uninsured mothers. They get good prenatal care, and they have house visitors - nurses who come to the house and help the first week."

In Switzerland, A Health Care Model for America?

by Julie Rovner | NPR Morning Edition

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92106731

Switzerland's health care system could be the perfect political compromise for the U.S. Those who can afford to buy insurance are required by law. For those who can't, the government provides subsidies. Swiss citizens, like Cecile Crettol-Rappaz, say they wouldn't trade it for any other system.

Health Care Lessons From France

by Joseph Shapiro

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92419273

In 2000, health care experts for the World Health Organization tried to do a statistical ranking of the world's health care systems. They studied 191 countries and ranked them on things like the number of years people lived in good health and whether everyone had access to good health care. France came in first. The United States ranked 37th.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)

http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/pr080715c.shtm

Watch and Listen to His Remarks Single Payer Health Care House of Representatives. Tuesday, July 15, 2008