New Orleans I had to read the article by Robert Pear of the New York Times three or four times to completely understand the contradictions that now seem to exist under the new Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. The headline said, “Employers with Healthy Workers Could Opt Out of Insurance Market, Raising Others’ Costs.” What’s …
Category: Health Care
“Smooth Slide to the Floor” for Lower Wage Workers Facing Obamacare
New Orleans Talking to a senior labor relations director for a health care company yesterday where our union was a terribly cold shower of reality. This company has 45,000 employees with 34,000 hourly, direct care staff similar to what we represent. We asked him how they were looking at the Americans Affordable Care Act …
Finally a Non-Profit Hospital Takeover Scam by HCA Comes to Justice
New Orleans The whole business of for profit hospital chains, like the giant Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and others, buying tax exempt nonprofits in these huge wheeling deals, has to be looked at with huge skepticism. Anytime the wolves are hanging with the lambs it is hard to believe that the people that are …