New Orleans Recently I read a disturbing and powerful indictment of the cost and provision of health care, An American Sickness: How Health Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back by former New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal. In devastating detail, she documented the wide variety of prices for basic and specialized …
Category: Health Care
Congressional Budget Office Scores House Health Bill with an “F”
Oakland The Congressional Budget Office finished its nonpartisan, objective evaluation of the costs and impacts of their recently passed bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, and channeling Gertrude Stein found that there was “no there, there,” at least if any of us were looking for health insurance, especially when we have health problems. Begin …
Trump’s Budget Wants USA to be Kansas, Meanwhile Reality Calls
Oakland The devil is in the details, not on Saturday Night Live, and his footprints are becoming clearer as the top notes become louder on the Trump Administration’s true plans for the country as revealed by their more detailed budget proposal. Tremendous cuts are being proposed for entitlements, some $800 billion over ten years in …