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 President Obama, I’ve always argued, don’t lobby, don’t email, don’t tweet, point all the heat you can generate directly at him. His record …
Month: October 2013
State Health Exchanges Could Create the Opportunity for Patient Power
New Orleans Very preliminary reports after the first two weeks of operation of the health marketplace exchanges indicate that state-based exchanges are starting to pick up traction, even as the federal run exchanges are still being delayed by online and other start-up challenges. Early indications are that significant demand is being fueled by the elimination …
How can it be Smart to Punish Poor People without Children?
New Orleans One of the least surprising, but most depressing, reports on the early days of the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act in recent weeks has not been the online application snafus but has been the number of families that have come walking into our offices throughout Texas and Louisiana hoping to find …