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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

Tactical Disaster

Health Care Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 17, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     The dispute between the California Nurses Association, AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees International Union has bitter roots in California and unfortunately is spreading elsewhere in the country. Rose Ann DeMoro, the CNA chief has been an purist on many issues and with a broad brush has tried to paint SEIU as evil, …

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State Long Term Care Insurance Scam

ACORN Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues Personal Writings February 27, 2008 by wade

New Orleans        A piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jennifer Levitz and Kelly Greene confirmed an unsettling trend we have seen coming into the ACORN Centers in some of our offices.  The ACORN Centers provide tax and benefit services for low- and moderate-income families in our cities.  In several situations tax counselors have …

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Living Longer

Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues February 19, 2008 by wade

New York City        More evidence continues to pour in with one report after another where the conclusion seems past debate that if you really want to live longer, you had better not be poor.  The latest by the American Cancer Society focused on the likelihood of early diagnosis (and therefore intervention) in the top …

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