Health Insurance Companies Cancel Sick Patients

By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 9, 2007 One of the state’s largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved. Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. avoided paying $35.5 million in medical expenses by rescinding about 1,600

Prescription Drugs

I think we need a forum to discuss the federal prescription drug program in particular and the health care system in America in general. As a senior with no health insurance, I know what it is like to go without health care. I have arthritis and cannot afford treatment. I am not old enough for

Friends of Recovery – Vermont

Friends of Recovery – Vermont is a grassroots advocacy organization that helps spread the word about the value of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and the effects of addictions. FOR-VT LINK: http://www.friendsofrecoveryvt.org/regions.php In 1998 an effort began build a statewide coalition of people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and its effects. The

National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month

September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month

Labor Movement History – Jim Moran and PhilaPOSH

I was a VISTA community organizer in 1979 at the Philadelphia Council of Neighborhood Organizations (PCNO), a coalition of over 200 neighborhood groups founded by a Jesuit priest, Father Joseph Kakalec. I was assigned to the Bridesburg section of the city where there were concerns that the cancer rate was much higher than the rest