New Orleans Over Christmas, an obituary ran in the Wall Street Journal for an unusual doctor, named William Levis, who died in his sleep at 86, having seen patients during the last week of his life. All that was interesting enough, but what caught my attention was the fact that he ran the …
Category: Health Care
Reducing Health Care Costs
New Orleans These days a new year means a notice from your health insurer, if you have one, both private and public, of the amount of the increase in premiums or deductions from your Social Security checks. With the Trump budget bill it will also mean changes coming in the amount of subsidies …
The Grim Present and Future for the Aging and Disabled Poor
Coyocan An In These Times article by Ottavia Spaggiari sucked me in with a pull quote that blared, “As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history – set to strip $500 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next nine years, leaving a projected 16 million …


