New Orleans The news on enrollment under the Affordable Care Act puts the numbers through December 28, 2013 at more than 2.1 million people with 24% under 34, 37% between 34 and 55, and 33% between 55 and 65. Officials for the Kaiser Foundation which has been following all of this carefully, said these figures …
Month: January 2014
Submerged State
New Orleans A frequent theme in the years leading up to the complicated and star crossed rollout of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare among the pundits, editorial writers, and commentators tried to nick the President for his weak kneed efforts to “sell” the program to the American public. Reading Cornell Professor Suzanne Mettler’s Submerged State: …
Target, NSA, the House of Reps, and Life in a Land with no Irony
New Orleans Let’s get this straight, ok? So, it’s clear that the NSA has trolled through all of our telephone calls and likely has stored most of our emails on metadata back-up servers somewhere 50 to 100 feet below ground in Kansas or Nebraska or North Dakota or somewhere. Now Target has come …