It has become obvious to all that the "free market" is not free for people who need health care. It is free for insurance companies to gouge, control and manipulate the users so that the companies don't have to pay and are assured a profit. This system is not working for the American people. I could list problems such as: ...more

October 25, 2009

In your editorial on health care ("Health care needs to be reformed," June 7) you state, "We don't want a nationalized system." Why not? In 2007, 62 percent of bankruptcies were due to medical bills. Of those, 75 percent had health insurance. This is the private, for-profit health insurance system you want to keep? ...more

June 11, 2009

Single-Payer Health Care The USA must join the modern world by establishing health as a right of the population. Our weak, wasteful and convoluted method places America at greater competitive risk without a single-payer health system. ...more

February 23, 2009

John Russell will get another chance to unseat U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite this November. ...more

August 27, 2008

Acute Care Nurse Beats Two Other Democrats ...more

August 27, 2008

U.S. Congress, 5th District As much as his opponents are nice people genuinely concerned about the future of our country, John Russell is the only legitimate Democratic candidate vying for the Fifth District U.S. Congressional seat against "Grandma" Carol Castagnero and perennial candidate H. David "The Pole Sitter" Werder. ...more

August 23, 2008