New Orleans Sometimes the gap in understanding the impact of wealth differentials, or what in the old school we called class differences, is so stark that it just blows the top of my head off. An example today in The New York Times was so clear that it forces me back to beating a drum …
Category: Health Care
Finally, the IRS is Enforcing Affordable Care Act!
New Orleans How many times do we get to talk about good news and the IRS in the same sentence? Darned few, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. But, having the IRS finally get off the dime and start enforcing the Affordable Care Act is fantastic news. The bottom line is that they …
Inequality Breeds Epidemics and Can Kill More than Just the Poor
New Orleans Spoiler alert. There is not a happy ending to this story without wide scale change in inequality. Turns out that not only is the wealth and income gap destroying our democracy and much of the social fabric of our lives and communities, but it is also breeding infectious diseases that leap past the …