DOL Takes Paid Leave Away from Low Wage Healthcare Workers

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09222020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     This is complicated, so hang with me, but here is what you need to know. Nursing home workers and other frontline healthcare providers like home health aides, and community home workers for the differently able account for perhaps the largest portion of the death …

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Hospitals and Drug Companies Gone Wild

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River       If you run a hospital, what do you do whether it’s a pandemic or wholesale panic? Jack up the prices seems to be the answer. A report hit the news from the Rand Corporation the other day about hospital prices.  On average they pile …

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Protecting, Sharing, and Hiding Behind Private Health Data

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Most of us think our own health is our business, that is until we find out it is big business, and that everyone wants to make it their business.  Health data is now a quiet corporate battlefield and a public issue at the same …

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