New Orleans A couple of days ago The Wall Street Journal ran a starkly realistic and somewhat depressing story about retirees, either voluntarily or forcibly leaving their jobs, who had been planning to find new work or who needed to find work to supplement minimal pensions or social security, who were being forced to abandon …
Category: Health Care
Arkansas Health Care Battleground Focuses on Stopping Enrollment
Little Rock The so-called unique “private option” in Arkansas where a federal Affordable Care Act waiver allows federal money to purchase insurance from private companies for low-income families continues to be a year-by-year battleground. Importantly this program along with Medicaid expansion, both navigated by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe through a Republican legislature, has already allowed …
Big Talk and Slow Walk in Texas Move to Restrict Obamacare Enrollment
New Orleans There seem to be no lengths to what some states, and we’re talking about Texas now, will go to in order to try and block enrollments under the Affordable Care Act desperately sought by so many families. Governor Rick Perry, like a number of dug-in anti-Obamacare Republican governors with Presidential ambitions, was finally …