The Problem of Obamacare Dropouts: Cost, Confusion, and Language

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

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 4 million are lower income. Reports indicate that there are improvements in the website, but there is no indication that there is …

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Managing the Money: Feds versus States – Bailouts and Tobacco Money

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Little Rock       One of the interesting claims by the conservative right, most recently directed at the Affordable Care Act and the myriad website enrollment snafus, has been essentially that the federal government is the gang that can’t shot straight.   Among the claims has been that states and certainly private businesses can do a wonderfully better …

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