WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River We keep beating this drum, over and over. Nonprofit, tax-exempt hospitals are supposed to provide charity care to justify the fact that they do not have to pay federal taxes. This benefit is worth billions for some hospital chains and is always a boon to any nonprofit hospital. The Affordable Care Act …
Pearl River No doubt about it, medical debt is a big thing. It’s a case in point of how our old Latin teacher, a polio victim, used to define a coup de grace as “kicking a cripple.” Someone is in desperate medical condition at the emergency room of a hospital or the admitting desk …
Little Rock Let’s be honest, this work is hard, and sometimes you don’t know whether to jump up and down and shout with joy or scream in frustration and pain. That’s a little bit of the mixed feelings I had reading an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal about the …