New Orleans A combination of factors has curbed some, but not all, of the appetite for nonprofit hospitals’ frenzy of legal actions against lower income families in North Carolina, giving hope that the new Affordable Care Act restrictions against draconian collection practices might actually be effective. We have been following closely whether or not nonprofit …
Month: March 2015
Tax Preparers Refund Anticipation Loans are Out of Control – Again!
New Orleans After years of campaigns by ACORN and agreements with the major tax preparers, H&R Block, Jackson-Hewitt, and Liberty Tax Services, to rein in the abuses and predatory pricing of “refund anticipation loans” or RALs, as they are known in the industry, it appears that the rats will play “while the cat is away.” …
Hospitals Cutting Costs by Helping the Poor
New Orleans We’ve all heard the sayings before. A stitch in time saves nine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Now it seems that with some incentives being provided to hospitals through the Affordable Care Act, some of them are learning these old lessons, perhaps for the first time with feeling. …