Amersfoort, Netherlands We were meeting with the organizing team for the national healthcare campaign in Holland. The campaign has hit a deep nerve in trying to push private insurers back out of the market place and arguing that there is not a national healthcare system when huge numbers are not participating because of an “own …
Category: Health Care
US-Like Health Insurance System Huge Political Issue
Amersfoort, Netherlands In the exactly six weeks since I visited organizers of the national health funds campaign in Holland, the campaign has continued to explode. When I first sat down with them at that time they had about 40,000 responses to their campaign with a little more than half asking for tool-kits to take …
Where You Live Could Kill You Faster
New Orleans Many of us live where we live, where work has brought us, or where family keeps us. Maybe we live where we have come to love the land or the local culture? Maybe we live where we managed to hang on to a house or bought a small piece in a patch where …