Saturday, July 11, 2009

Did you watch Bill Moyers last nite?

Bill spoke to Wendell Potter, former insurance executive turned advocate for better healthcare in the US. He spoke candidly - and shockingly - about how the insurance industry has a history of denying care of its members. Even Bill Moyers was shocked. Read about it here.

In 1964 I attended Goddard College in Vermont. On the first day I rode a taxi from the Montpelier-Barre Airport, adorned with the marble famous in Vermont, with Larry Yurdin. Larry was a brilliant student and many years later appeared in an article in the NY Times. He and his wife had declared bankruptcy due to outrageous medical expenses not covered by his Aetna insurance. Here's the Times article.

For those readers in the Philadelphia area, good healthcare can be found for the working uninsured of Bucks and Montgomery Counties at HealthLink in Southampton, PA. I worked there for awhile as their Saturday receptionist.

The patients in the waiting room were eternally grateful for the care they received from beneficent physicians and dentists.

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