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 …
Category: Health Care
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 …
Immunization and Other Public Health Shortages Reveal Weaknesses of Conservative Response
Little Rock A friend and comrade made the simple, but totally correct, observation that the weaknesses in the political positions from both the right and left, Democrats and Republicans, is that they were both arguing over insurance, when the American people only care about healthcare. Nowhere is this more obvious than when you consider the …