New Orleans With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals were on notice. Costs were out of control and people were going to be looking. Prices were going to be made public so some patients could compare. Hospitals were going to be able to be ranked by health outcomes. Accountability was coming! This …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Google Sidewalk Project is Still Too Sketchy and Undemocratic
New Orleans Maybe I should shut-up about the Sidewalk development project being proposed by Google in Toronto on 800-acres. ACORN and some of our allies went after them from the day they won the bid to submit proposals on the issue of the lack of affordable housing in a city that is caught in an …
Getting Serious about the Policy of Taxing the Rich
Washington This whole thing about taxing the rich is getting serious. There were more than 150 people in a wonk policy festival organized brilliantly by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Economic Policy Institute, two of the most respected research centers in Washington. Talking about taxes in general is mind-numbing, head spinning, headache producing …