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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".

Category: Health Care

Nonprofit Hospitals Embracing Predatory Practices

Health Care Hospital Accountability September 22, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            Marble Falls       If there’s one place where we absolutely need to feel like we’re in good hands and that everyone’s priority is our best interest, it has to be in hospitals with healthcare workers.  I found myself thinking about this as I entered the University of Arkansas Medical Systems (UAMS) main location last …

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Medicaid for the Poor, If They Can Get It

Health Care July 20, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            New Orleans      It’s a simple fact of the modern economy and our peculiar economic system, that when you turn over the management of a public program to a private entity, whether it be housing, health care, welfare, or pretty much whatever, and the direct or presumed incentive for the private enterprise, will not …

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Bottle Caps and the Mystery of Tylenol Deaths

Drugs Health Care July 11, 2023July 11, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            Pearl River      I have to agree with Helen Jensen, the Chicago-area nurse that first figured out that a killer had poisoned people she was caring for at her hospital by tampering with a bottle of Tylenol, when she says that the killer, “changed the world because of what he did.”  I have to admit …

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