David Welch RN's Blog

The Truth about "Healthcare for America Now"

As a long term veteran of the fight for single payer healthcare - for a real solution that will meet the care needs of all Americans, I was pretty excited at first when I saw the splashy new rollout for "Healthcare for America Now"

You can see their web ads on this site and on many others.

You can see their splashy website

I took a look at it and at first, things looked pretty good.  They say lots of bad things about the health insurers, which is a good start.  My first clue that something was wrong was when I followed a link to a survey.  Follow me below the fold for that first clue.

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Just another day on the front lines of the healthcare crisis.

I'm a cardiac rehab nurse at a mid-sized community hospital in Northrn California,  Today was just another day at work, but a day that kept bringing me face to face with the reality of how our lack of real healthcare hurts ordinary folks

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One more way single payer systems do better.

I'm just back from vacation - a bike tour in France - where I happened to learn about one more of the ways a single payer system works better.

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