The Kaiser Family Foundation came out with a major study today. The Foundation studied programs that help consumers sign up for health insurance — a major part of the Affordable Care Act. The results are incredible. More than 12 million people reached out to consumer assistance programs over the last year. Those programs helped 7,000,000 …
The Kaiser Family Foundation: Consumer Assistance Works! Read More »
As you may have read in part 1, I spent over $8,000 last year with insurance to pay for the diabetes supplies I need to keep me alive. But that excludes what I spent on supplies I didn’t realize were no longer covered until it was too late. How did this happen? In order to …
Formulary Changes: #Insulin4All’s Melissa Passarelli Read More »
Medicaid turned 50 this last week! Medicaid is a health insurance program that states and the federal government run together. It helps people who aren’t old enough for Medicare coverage, but may not have the resources for private insurance. It’s a lifeline for millions: For many people with low incomes, their children, and people with …
We’re launching a new video series! The series, Epicenter Experience, will focus on YOUR experiences with COVID-19 in New York. How has COVID-19 affected you emotionally, physically, and financially? What did you do to cope with quarantine and social distancing? How have you felt about the changes that have happened? What would you like to …
The Community Service Society of New York, with help from BetaNYC, released a map highlighting the medical debt crisis in New York. The results are shocking. What’s the problem? According to CSSNY’s research, New York hospitals sued patients more than 40,000 times between 2015 and 2019. This means that, on average, New York’s hospitals filed …
Mapping How New York’s Hospitals Sue Vulnerable Patients Read More »
Do you use Slack or Tiktok? Then We The Patients has two new channels for you to join us on! We’ve started a Slack channel and a TikTok account, and we’ll be using both regularly throughout the months to come. We’ll be adding more content on both as time goes by, and we invite you …
Kistein Monkhouse, We The Patients Storytelling advisor, has a new documentary: Humanizing Health Care! Humanizing Health Care is an in-depth exploration of the many systemic issues in healthcare that patients struggle with every day. Through stories from patients, healthcare providers, activists, and policymakers from across the country, Humanizing Health Care unpacks the history of healthcare …
Humanizing Health Care – New Documentary by Kistein Monkhouse! Read More »
Health Justice and Covid-19 written by We The Patients storytelling advisor Kistein Monkhouse. Once upon a time, I worried about my brother being racially profiled and harassed by police in his neighborhood. These days, my questioning of his safety has a different meaning. Recently his response has been, “I don’t have coronavirus. Everybody is safe”. …
Richard Gottfried (D-75) has been a State Assembly Member for Manhattan for years. During that time, he’s worked to make healthcare work better and cost less for New Yorkers. To Assembly Member Gottfried, the best way to get legislators’s attention is simple: Tell a story. Using the New York Health Act as his example, Assembly …
The Importance of Storytelling with Assembly Member Richard Gottfried Read More »
In light of the recent release of the budget and the coronavirus pandemic that is shaking our health care system to its core, many of us are left wondering how can we fight for change in such uncertain times? We The Patients advisor, Chuck Bell, has pulled together a 101 guide on how to express …
