New Orleans The whole business of for profit hospital chains, like the giant Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and others, buying tax exempt nonprofits in these huge wheeling deals, has to be looked at with huge skepticism. Anytime the wolves are hanging with the lambs it is hard to believe that the people that are …
Month: January 2013
The Paradox of Thought Not Following Action
New Orleans Here we find a central dilemma of our time in a quote from author, intellectual Alain de Botton in the book review section the Times: Question The last book that made you furious? Answer I got very angry about the food industry reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s excellent “Eating Animals.” Now a few years later, …
Governors United Against Low-and-Moderate Income Families: Sales vs. Income Taxes
New Orleans This is all getting to be very scary. At first you think, wow, how can this be happening here, and then you realize that you are not living through some kind of sick social experiment of reverse Robin Hoodism, but instead are just one test tube of a right wing Republican lab experiment …