http://hcfan.bluestatedigital.com/ en jrosenbaum@healthcareforamericanow.org Copyright 2008 2008-08-04T13:47:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/daily_health_care_news_clips_8_4_08/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/daily_health_care_news_clips_8_4_08/#When:12:47:00Z Today's health care news clips from all over the web. If I've missed an important story, feel free to leave a link in the comments! 2008-08-04T12:47:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/health_savings_accounts_are_a_scam/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/health_savings_accounts_are_a_scam/#When:20:55:00Z Health savings accounts, touted as the latest "free market" solution to our spiraling health care costs, is nothing but a scam to give more money to insurance companies and the rich. 2008-08-02T20:55:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/why_are_workers_doing_the_heavy_lifting_on_health_care/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/why_are_workers_doing_the_heavy_lifting_on_health_care/#When:19:13:00Z Union members aren't superheroes. They're just ordinary people-working Americans like the rest of us. Yet they've got more fight in them then the politicians that are supposed to be fighting for us. Workers are the ones doing the heavy lifting on health ca From Our Partners 2008-08-01T19:13:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/maximum_limits_on_lifetime_health_benefits_may_provide_minimal_protection/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/maximum_limits_on_lifetime_health_benefits_may_provide_minimal_protection/#When:18:30:00Z Does your health coverage have a lifetime maximum? Is it adequate? (If you’re already stumped, a lifetime benefit maximum or cap is the maximum amount of money an insurer will pay for healthcare services over the course of the insured person’s lifetime.) From Our Partners 2008-08-01T18:30:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/daily_health_care_news_clips_8_1_08/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/daily_health_care_news_clips_8_1_08/#When:12:54:00Z Today, we begin the first of a daily series of news clips on health care from around the web. The idea is hopefully to provide a place for folks to get a quick overview of what's going on in the larger health care world each day. If you have suggestions fo 2008-08-01T12:54:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/fix_health_care_fix_the_economy/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/fix_health_care_fix_the_economy/#When:13:57:01Z With the nation focused on our economy, higlighted by the spiraling price of gas, Phil Bredesen, the governor of Tennessee, hits on the larger issue. 2008-07-31T13:57:01+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/sending_patients_thousands_of_miles_away_is_cheaper_than_treating_them_here/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/sending_patients_thousands_of_miles_away_is_cheaper_than_treating_them_here/#When:13:21:00Z It's simply amazing that it is cheaper to fly thousands of miles to a foreign country than to have a medical procedure here at home. 2008-07-29T13:21:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/were_getting_together/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/were_getting_together/#When:17:32:00Z citizentube, a Google citizen outreach project, has featured our video, "Insurance Company Rules," on their blog. Perfect timing. 2008-07-28T17:32:00+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/217_million_per_hour/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/217_million_per_hour/#When:12:44:01Z $217 million per hour. That's how much Americans spend on health care according to testimony in front of Congress' Joint Economic Committee by experts from the American Human Development Project. 2008-07-28T12:44:01+00:00 http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/are_state_solutions_practical_thoughts_on_hurricanes_and_health_reform/ http://www.healthcareforamericaeducationfund.org/site/blog/are_state_solutions_practical_thoughts_on_hurricanes_and_health_reform/#When:20:39:00Z Lisa Codisopti, Senior Advisor at the National Women's Law Center, lays out the case for a national public health insurance plan, a plan that we here at Health Care for America Now feel is crucial to solving our health care crisis. From Our Partners 2008-07-25T20:39:00+00:00