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Enforcing Adequate Medicaid Cover for the Poor

New Orleans Reading the report was one of those Sports Center “come on, man!” moments.  This couldn’t be true.  The top Democratic were filing an amicus curia (friend of the court)  brief with the Supreme Court to try to overturn the Obama Administration’s efforts to allow cutting the standards of health protection under Medicaid for [...]

New Study: Health Insurance Saves Lives of Poor

New Orleans This should be the least surprising news since you learned that sugar tastes good, but now there is actually statistical proof from a drug-trial-like study that when the poor have health insurance by damn their health improves!  I’m not sure having hard proof will change any minds or votes among lawmakers but at [...]

Let’s Really Investigate the Doctor Business

New Orleans A bi-partisan group of US Senators, led by Orin Hatch (R-UT) has asked for an investigation of physician-owned-distributorships (POD) and the lack of safeguards preventing docs from unnecessary surgeries utilizing devices that enrich them because they are distributors for manufacturers.  A study Hatch released indicated these PODs are legal in 20 states [...]

Mr. President Don’t let Healthcare Coverage be Taken from Healthcare Workers

Obama signes Healthcare Reform Act

Tegucigalpa Before dawn in Honduras with the birds still loud and the sun still just a rumor, I was writing a petition for Local 100 members (www.unitedlaborunions.org) to be able to get out through our leaders and stewards throughout Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas to demand that President Obama, DHS, Congressional [...]

Rave Reviews for ACORN International in Dharavi

From the National Geographic article featuring ACORN International ragpickers.

From National Geographic Article

Mumbai      Vinod Shetty, ACORN India’s Director, and I had been meeting for hours along Juhu Road at the Sip ‘N Munch going through our work list of what needed to be done on campaigns around remittances, the Commonwealth [...]

Kaiser Win for SEIU, No Rerun Coming

Nytimes article picture of SEIU workers celebrating with workers coming into work.

Mumbai    The results of the Kaiser decertification election or what Steve Greenhouse with the NY Times calls the largest single-company private sector election since Ford Motor more than 60 years ago, were an old  foot stomping, ass whipping blowout for SEIU.  The scorecard [...]