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Uninsured Twice as Likely to Die in ER

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2009 A new Harvard study has uncovered another disturbing reality of America's broken health care system: Trauma patients without insurance are almost twice as likely to die in the emergency room. Researchers were unable to determine why, but hospitals' eagerness to transfer the uninsured could be to blame. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Campaign ’08: Giving U.S. Health Care a Checkup

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig May 14, 2008 On May 5, the day before Barack Obama all but clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, I visited Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., because I was sick -- sick of stories about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his most famous parishioner and of television close-ups of Obama drinking beer and Hillary Clinton belting straight shots in efforts to show their inner blue collars. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

San Francisco to Cover the Uninsured

Staff / Truthdig Sep 14, 2007 The City by the Bay is launching a new initiative that aims to provide healthcare for all of its uninsured residents. The plan is to pay for coverage with existing resources that are spent on more expensive -- and less effective -- emergency room and chronic care. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Failing America’s Neediest Children

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jul 19, 2007 Why does the Bush administration want to orphan the State Children's Health Insurance Program, one of the few programs that both Democrats and Republicans have claimed as a wild success since the Clinton days? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )