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 …
Category: Health Care
Narrow Networks Prove Price, not Choice, Rules Healthcare Decisions
New Orleans It’s becoming increasingly obvious that deep down without being willing to admit it, Americans are voting with their feet on the issue of health care and the tally is showing that their real preference would probably be the British National Health Service. Now, there’s no likelihood of that happening of course but narrow …
Public Subsidies of Low Wages
New Orleans The Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California has released a report looking at many federal and state subsidies directed at relief for lower income Americans. All good. What they found though is that a huge percentage of this kind of support is not in Republican ideological terms, …