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 …
Category: Health Care
Legislators Leveraging Hospitals to Pressure Governors to Expand Medicaid
New Orleans In Florida, there is a well-publicized breech between the Republican Governor and the Republican-controlled legislature over their budget shortfalls and the need to bridge the gaps by expanding Medicaid. The governor, Rick Scott, has gone to wild extremes of suing the federal government to try to force a change in the already …
Hospitals Have to Limit Liens and Lawsuits
Houston Two twin sisters in Knoxville, Tennessee both became nurses and when they retired, they organized something called Love’s Kitchen that provided meals and clothes to what they called the “five H’s: the hungry, homeless, helpless, hopeless, and homebound.” One sister, Ellen Turner, passed away recently at 87. The whole operation was funded by donations and run …