Affordable Care Act Backwash

Financial Justice Health Care

New Orleans         Talking to Professor Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University on Wade’s World  about his new book, American Insecurity:  Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Inaction, about how our political and organizational communication can subvert our own message or “self-undermining rhetoric” in his words, I asked him for his opinion about how the Administration “sold” …

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Hardball on Disproportionate Share Might Equal State Expanded Medicaid

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

New Orleans    When the archly conservative National Journal asks whether the Obama Administration is preparing to play hardball with Florida over $1 billion in Medicaid funding that is set to expire later this year for “disproportionate share,” the heart quickens as people, meaning most rational and sentient beings, committed to better health care for all, …

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More Handles Emerging to Force Accountability for Nonprofit Hospitals

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

New Orleans      No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states that continue to refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, we are going to have to push so-called nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals …

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