New Orleans The more I get my arms around the current American health system, the more I’m convinced we all need real help and representation and need it badly. Two hugely disturbing cases of predatory abuse in the current health care system underscore my concerns. One was a story as old as usurious interest …
Category: Health Care
How Bad are On-line Bottlenecks in Obamacare Enrollment Chaos?
New Orleans This is the Chief Organizer, not Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, so let’s start by not pretending that the first two weeks of enrollment under the Affordable Care Act have been anything other than bad. They have been woeful. At the same time in my view none of the problems are fatal, all of …
Obama Right to Refuse to Negotiate with Himself
New Orleans For five years whenever I’ve been asked for advice from various national campaigns whether immigration reform or healthcare or living wages or whatever, when it’s come to how to move President Obama, I’ve always argued, don’t lobby, don’t email, don’t tweet, point all the heat you can generate directly at him. His record …