New Orleans The closer we get to 2014 and the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act or so-called Obamacare, the more our hopes for health security for all Americans are being dashed as we stumble over what appear to be loopholes in the law and its regulations large enough for companies to drag an [...]
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New Orleans The hope that the new Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare as it known, will reduce costs is based on the belief that there will be more competition by creating state insurance exchanges where all companies will participate. This will force lower costs as the insurance companies try to win the business of [...] Little Rock Probably surprising none of the organizers involved or anyone looking at the campaign, the vote count on the rerun decertification election between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) produced the same result with a wider margin as Kaiser hospital workers in California overwhelming voted for [...] New Orleans First come the disclaimers. I have no stomach for this 5 year saga in California that has created a huge rift in the labor movement as folks picked sides between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers’ (NUHW). Depending on how you line up, NUHW is either [...] Little Rock Atul Gawande is best known to many of us as a doctor who writes important articles about healthcare in the New Yorker magazine. To his patients he is known as a good surgeon in Boston, and to other surgeons, he is also known as someone who advocates and develops simple checklists for other [...] New Orleans Most people – and politicians – don’t recognize the real contributions of direct care health workers until their lives or the lives of loved ones depend on them. And, when I say, depends on them, I mean for everything from mobility, to feeding, to bathing, to the most basic and private needs that [...] |
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