New Orleans Credit to where credit is due, you have to give the devil his due, Jackson-Hewitt, the tax preparers, performed a public service in trying to calculate what businesses are going to have to pay, partially as a result of recalcitrant, Republican denials of full coverage protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and …
Category: Health Care
Venal Politics of Ambition, Ideology, and Contributions Crippling Louisiana Healthcare
New Orleans What often goes unsaid when the right pontificates and proselytizes about the wondrous benefits of privatization or public-private so-called “partnerships,” is the how much this is all simply a rationalization for personal ambition and the need to raise huge campaign contributions to fuel that fire. We see this now, painfully and almost daily, …
Protecting Insurance Company Profits under Obamacare
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 …