New Orleans We have been beating the drum regularly here, there, and everywhere around the country about the organizing and campaign “handles” that could allow aggressive and vigilant community and labor based organizations to demand and require more accountability for tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals. We have trumpeted Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa’s late stage amendment to …
Category: Health Care
Unnecessary Medical Care and Over Prescription by Doctors
New Orleans I go for a physical annually, like you’re supposed to do. I basically trust my doctor, largely because she keeps it simple, doesn’t make me do some tests I don’t want, stretches out the EKGs for years, and sometimes forgets to make me, how should I say this, bend over. To get insurance …
Affordable Care Act Potholes
New Orleans Some twelve million people may have enrolled under the Affordable Care Act, but that doesn’t mean that Obamacare can catch a break. Everywhere we turn there seems to be more potholes on the road. Of course there’s the decision due in June by the Supreme Court on whether or not subsidies can be …