San Francisco The Affordable Care Act has given health consumers, also known frequently as patients, more significant advances in transparency and information about hospitals and doctors. Medical records are being digitized and becoming accessible. Information is being made public on doctors, exposing some have Medicare mills. It appears the public is getting closer to being …
Month: June 2015
Activism Humor Close to the Bone
New Orleans In recent years there seems to be a small cottage industry of novelists mining the left, activism, and the sixties, especially the flirtations with violence in their work: Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem, True Believers by Kurt Andersen, and Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner are among them. And, yes, I read them all with …
Union Leaders Concerned about Schools, Wages, and Medical Debt
Little Rock When the forty leaders at the 34th Annual Local 100 Leadership Conference, held this year in Little Rock, were asked how many of them were carrying medical debt, more than half of the hands in the room went up. When asked how many had family, friends, or neighbors dealing with the burden of …