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Obama Right to Refuse to Negotiate with Himself
New Orleans For five years whenever I’ve been asked for advice from various national campaigns whether immigration reform or healthcare or living wages or whatever, when it’s come to how to move...
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We All Need Health Advocates and Advisors
New Orleans The more I get my arms around the current American health system, the more I’m convinced we all need real help and representation and need it badly. Two hugely disturbing...
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Subverting Competition in Healthcare May Force Price Controls
New Orleans There are obvious glitches in the Affordable Care Act that the politicians will handle. One of them, as I’ve argued before, is going to be extending the deadline for enrollment to escape...
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Insurance Advertising is Over the Line, Though Not Alone
Dallas Going from office to office from Houston to Austin to Dallas then heading on towards Arkansas, going old school you get to hear a lot of what’s up on radio, including some zany scary songs on...
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Unintended Consequences: Confusing Entitlements & Rights with Fast Food Wage...
New Orleans A surprisingly balanced column by Carl Bialik, the “Numbers Guy” at the Wall Street Journal, tried to look at the recent headlines trying to slam the fast food industry over the fact...
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Health Insurance Companies Gaining Whip Hand over Affordable Care Act?
New Orleans New reports indicate that with a little more than a week before the President’s deadline, 30% or more of the healthcare.gov website is still being built. Currently though it is working...
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Arkansas Health Care Battleground Focuses on Stopping Enrollment
Toney Orr, Local 100, speaking in support of private option at the Arkansas Capital. Little Rock The so-called unique “private option” in Arkansas where a federal Affordable Care Act waiver allows...
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Alphabet Soup as Affordable Care Enrollment Comes to Wire
Bengaluru We’re on the countdown now for enrollment under the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, or at least we are for the first round in what now appears to be a 15-round main event. At the...
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Taking the Affordable Out of the Affordable Care Act
Shreveport Two different federal appeals courts, one in the notoriously Republican-dominated, 2nd Circuit in Washington, DC, and the other a bit more mainstream in Richmond, Virginia came down...
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French Fudging May Point to Coming Business Loopholes in US on Employer Mandates
New Orleans The headline in the Times spoke of “the 49ers of France,” conjuring up images of the 49ers of California Gold Rush fame, drawing me in completely. These 49ers though were small business...
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Too Much Data in Too Many Hands for Both Good and Evil
New Orleans An observation decades ago always stuck with me. It was a comparison of Americans and people who live elsewhere. The point made by the author, whose name fittingly has long ago left...
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Walmart Dropping Part-timers Maybe a Win for 30,000 Workers
New Orleans I stand second to no one as a critic of Walmart’s employee and labor relations policies, but it’s hard for me to join the boo-bird chorus about the company’s latest Scrooge-like action...
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More Handles Emerging to Force Accountability for Nonprofit Hospitals
New Orleans No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states...
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Affordable Care Act Backwash
New Orleans Talking to Professor Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University on Wade’s World about his new book, American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Inaction, about how our...
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Hospitals Cutting Costs by Helping the Poor
New Orleans We’ve all heard the sayings before. A stitch in time saves nine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Now it seems that with some incentives being provided to hospitals...
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Uneven Results in North Carolina Indicate that New Nonprofit Hospital Rule...
New Orleans A combination of factors has curbed some, but not all, of the appetite for nonprofit hospitals’ frenzy of legal actions against lower income families in North Carolina, giving hope that...
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Affordable Care Act Gap Hits Black and Hispanic Adults the Hardest
New Orleans I’m not going to say that we’re not making progress because enrollment under the Affordable Care Act continues to increase despite opposition. On the other hand there is no way not to...
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Affordable Care Act Potholes
New Orleans Some twelve million people may have enrolled under the Affordable Care Act, but that doesn’t mean that Obamacare can catch a break. Everywhere we turn there seems to be more...
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The Problem of Obamacare Dropouts: Cost, Confusion, and Language
New Orleans We’re knocking on the door of another Affordable Care Act enrollment period beginning November 1st. There are ten million eligible people who have not yet received coverage of whom 40% or...
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Congress is the Undercard, the Real Fight for Healthcare is Still Corporate
New Orleans Recently the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act for something like the 62nd time. They have now almost banned Obamacare from being funded as many times as...
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