CAG Issues - Health Care

Who's Complaining about Health Care Reform? (And What Do They Pay in Taxes?)  A new analysis from Citizens for Tax Justice shows that many of the companies protesting a tax-loophole-closing reform enacted in the new health care reform law are paying corporate taxes at less than a third of the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate, and in some cases are actually getting tax rebates back from the federal government.   Read the report.  (April 9, 2010)

The Charleston Gazette -- Universal: Care for all Americans  (Jan. 22, 2010)

Minimum Medical Loss Ratio Could Save Billions  (Dec. 2009)

Background on Coventry Health Care's Worst Practices (Sept. 2009)
Press Release: WV HCAN Coalition Joins in National Day of Action Demands REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM (9/22/09)

Statements on Health (August 09)

Sick for Profit (August 09)

Report: Unequal Lives Health Care Discrimination Harms Communities of Color (July 09)

Health Care Reform: 450,000 Doctors Can't Be Wrong (July, 09)

Two Proposals to Pay for Health Care Reform without Hurting Struggling Families in West Virginia (July 09)

WV Healthcare Affordability Report:  Health Insurance Coverage in West Virginia Keeps Shrinking as Premiums, Family Costs Continue Climbing  (June 2009)

Spread The Message: We're Not Scared of Real Health Care Reform (Video)

Consumer Confidence in Health Care Falls, Report Finds (June 22, 2009)
Based on a monthly survey of five hundred households, the RWJF Index found that Americans' confidence in their health insurance coverage and access to health care fell to 98.7, out of a possible 200, in May.

Healthcare CEOs Shoot Themselves in the Foot (June 17, 2009)

Health reform criticism is ludicrous (May 28, 2009)

Under McCain Health Plan 99,125 People in West Virginia Would Lose Employer Sponsored Health Coverage (Oct. 1, 2008)

State officials say Bush veto will jeopardize insurance coverage for state children (Sep. 26, 2007)

The Insurance Companies' Plan for Covering the Uninsured  (Nov. 30, 2006)

Falling into the Doughnut Hole: How Congress and the Drug Industry
Created a Trap for American Seniors and People with Disabilities (July, 2006)

The Excess Cost of the Medicare Drug Benefit (Feb., 2006)

Please help in the federal Medicaid fight -- Contact your Senators (12/9/04)

Nearly Two in Five Children Lack Health Insurance; WV Citizen Action questions Bush Administration’s Priorities in Face of Healthcare
Crisis (pdf)

West Virginians without Health Insurance (pdf)

One in Three: Non-Elderly Americans Without Health Insurance, 2002-2003 (pdf)

West Virginians for Affordable Health Care (WVAHC)

Health Care For America Now!

WV Citizen Action is proud to partner with Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a national grassroots campaign organizing millions of Americans to win a guarantee of quality, affordable health care for all. HCAN is grounded in organizations that can mobilize people at work, at home, in their neighborhoods, and online and is bringing together community organizers, nurses, doctors, small business owners, faith-based groups, organizations of people of color, and seniors who believe it's time we had an American solution that provides quality, affordable health care for everyone.

HCAN offers a bold new solution that gives you real choice and a guarantee of quality coverage you can afford: keep your current private insurance plan, pick a new private insurance plan, or join a public health insurance plan.

We're also calling for regulation on health insurance companies. We need to set and enforce rules that quash health insurance companies' greed once and for all. There is a huge divide between our plan and the insurance companies' plan for healthcare reform. We want to make sure you have the quality coverage you need at the price you can afford. They want to leave you alone to fend for yourself in the unregulated, bureaucratic health insurance market.

Our plan is affordable for people and business. Their plan is profitable for them. With no regulation, health insurance companies can and will charge whatever they want, set high deductibles, and continue to drop coverage when you get sick. Now is the time to pick a side. For more information, please visit www.healthcareforamericanow.org.