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 …
Category: Health Care
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 …
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 …