Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]

A health insurance advocate group, Florida Health Insurance Web, reports more bad news for Florida residents. Florida has hit a new low, ranked close to the bottom of a new national survey on healthcare; just a spot above Oklahoma. The first-ever state-by-state health system report focused on children’s health care and finds Florida’s kids have [...]

A port-funded study on health care options for independent truck drivers in San Pedro Bay paints a mostly bleak picture for drivers and their families, who face high costs, limited coverage and the likelihood of rejection by insurance companies.
The study, presented Monday to Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioners, estimates that 40 percent of drivers [...]

The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Even many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are [...]

The need for meaningful health care reform remains one of the hottest topics in the public as we approach our national election. Health Insurance An important new study, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, reveals a growing consensus among practicing physicians that our broken health care system would be best fixed by legislation [...]

Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]

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Charles, a resident of Beloit, went both directions when she got second and third opinions on whether she needed surgery. For both appointments, she parked in the same lot, walked into the same building in Madison and took the same elevator.
Both doctors were employed by the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation.
For the [...]

As an emergency room physician, Whitcomb has prescribed painkillers and worried about patients going to another hospital or clinic for more pills and then abusing or selling them. Last year, a close friend’s son mixed beer with the painkiller Percocet, lay down for a nap and never woke up.
“For your own safety and for patient [...]

Experts paint a picture of a system that is not working well and getting worse. In a 2006 report, the Institute of Medicine documented the problems and recommended fixes.
Kellermann’s Grady Memorial Hospital trauma service treated the 35 victims of the bombing at the 1996 Olympics. But a decade later, he questions whether it could respond [...]