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 …
Category: Health Care
Social Determinants of Health are Killing People Everywhere
New Orleans Sometimes it is eerie how things come together. The other day I was working with several researchers with GHETS (Global Health through Education, Training and Services), a US-based nonprofit head by a colleague Dr. David Egilman, to expand the emphasize on community organizing and community action as a critical tool in training health …
Nonprofit Deductions, DREAMing, Facts, Live-In Wages, Tax Justice, and Twitter Access
Quito With 80% of the United States households earning, and therefore paying, taxes on incomes of less than $100,000 per year, that means that the vast majority of us are filing “short forms” on IRS 1040A. Independent studies regularly establish that the most generous Americans, when measured as a percentage of income, are those making …