HEALTH
Survey: Most in Mass. low-cost health plan pleasedFive years after Massachusetts adopted the nation's most sweeping expansion of health care, access to primary care doctors remains a key concern among those who have obtained insurance through the 2006 law. More » |
The good news about single-payer health careHealth care in the United State is in a crisis. Our present health care system is fragmented between multiple private insurance companies and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The system is controlled by the profit making insurance industry and based on each person's ability to pay and not based on needed medical care. Fifty million people do not have insurance at all. At least 25 million people are underinsured and do not have their medical needs covered. More » |
