Patients demand: 'Give us our damned data'

Despite a federal law requiring hospitals and doctors to release medical records to patients who ask for them, patients are reporting they have a hard time accessing them

Organizing for America Takes It To The Streets

To the streets--We're doing the job, people are coming out, but the other two legs of the stool to boost this fledgling movement to the next step are missing Namely, those are:

Gambling With Our Lives: How Private Industry Has Ruined Healthcare

Meet Vivian, from Hilsboro, Oregon. Vivian's husband is disabled and she retired with a partial disability pension. Right now the couple is using COBRA1 to cover their health insurance needs but time is running out.

Patient Privacy Rights | Resource

Description: This organization is "dedicated to ensuring Americans control access to their health records" and that "what you say in the doctor's office should stay in the doctor's office." Includes material about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( …

Three questions you never thought you had to answer to get a birth certificate.

I was elated to get the just decided upon name of my newborn on paper. I got out the waiting stack and started filling in the blanks. That's when I crashed headlong into question number thirteen, asking the Principal source of payment for this delivery. Odd.