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Be Skeptical!
For-profit Health Insurance Lobby (AHIP) seeks to Protect Profits by convincing you they can solve nation's health care crisis!
Big insurance promised in 1993 that they could solve the problem, but they only made the nation's problems worse with skyrocketing premiums and rising numbers of uninsured.
REALITY CHECK: $1,000 per year of the premiums paid to for-profit United Healthcare to insure a Rhode Island family of four goes to profits not healthcare!
Across the nation, American's are voicing deep skeptisim about AHIP's launch of a counter-campaign to real healthcare reform.
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Read more... [Action Spotlight]
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If you could shape U.S. health care reforms in the coming years - and help ensure they happen - what would be your priorities? Is universal coverage a must for you, and if so, at what cost? How about lowering premiums? Do you want to minimize people's out-of-pocket spending?
America's Health Insurance Plans, a national trade group, is asking these questions of business owners, consumers and its own members across the country as part of a national "listening tour" that stopped in Rhode Island on Sept. 26.
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Read more... [Health Care for America Now Crashes Insurance Industry's Party]
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More than 20 people came out to Blue State Coffee on Sunday September 14 to see and discuss the first public screening of "Diagnosis Now", the new 9-minute documentary on the health care crisis and the role of the insurance industry.
click picture to watch the 9 minute film
Viewers were surprised to learn from the documentary that half of all bankruptcies in the US come from medical bills, and three-quarters of those dealing with medical bankruptcy face it even though they do have insurance.
The screening was sponsored by OSA and the Brown Chapter of the American Medical Students Association. |
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News You Can Use in the Ocean State
- "More unionization would be good for economy," guest column by Robert Reich in the Providence Journal (February 2, 2009)
- "Class war being waged in Rhode Island," column by Jim Barron in the Pawtucket Times (January 26, 2009)
- "Gubernatorial Hoovers make it worse," guest column by Paul Krugman in the Providence Journal (January 6, 2009)
- "A call to prayer for legislators," column by Ed Fitzpatrick in the Providence Journal (January 1, 2009)
- "Guarantee health reform, not higher profits," guest column by Vivian Weisman in the Providence Journal (December 23, 2008)
Reports and Fact Sheets
Ocean State Action has compiled several reports and fact sheets relating to issues facing Rhode Island. These contain information that is essential to understanding the problems our state faces, and how we can responsibly fix them to make Rhode Island work better for everyone. The reports and fact sheets address, among other issues: the health care crisis in Rhode Island, including how it affects small businesses; tax and budget policy, with recommendations of how we can responsibly fix our state's budget deficit; and a report entitled "The Next New Deal," a comprehensive look at how the nation can get back on track for a 21st century economy. There are also links to reports and fact sheets compiled by other groups with info essential to all Rhode Islanders.
See reports and fact sheets here.
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Visit the Rhode Island Policy Reporter at What Cheer! for up-to-date policy analysis and reports.
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