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 …
Category: Health Care
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 …
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 …