Daily Archives: August 27, 2009

“They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors”

Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed Wendell Potter, former Vice President of Cigna. (Click the Democracy Now link to see the video) As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies … Continue reading

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Proposal of the Physicians’ Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance

Back in 2003 the Physicians for a National Health Care Program (PNHP) the following summary and conclusion in their article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The United States spends more than twice as much on health … Continue reading

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