New Orleans For a change we’re winning one against the right wing strategy of progressive institution defunding. This is a Texas-style bare knuckles dispute, and I’m so proud of the way Cecile Richards stepped into the ring here that I could just spit! The Susan Komen Foundation folks are headquartered in Dallas so they should’ve …
Category: Health Care
Shame on Komen Foundation Craven Cave-in on Planned Parenthood
New Orleans It was shocking today to read that the Komen Foundation, well known for its ubiquitous “pink” crusade against breast cancer, in the most craven way caved into right-wing pressure and unilaterally defunded Planned Parenthood. Komen has been increasingly controversial in the anti-cancer health movement for emphasizing marketing and branding over research and cures, …
Community Paramedics; Good Idea, No Reimbursement
New Orleans A fascinating story ran in the New York Times by Kirk Johnson about “community paramedics” being used in Colorado along with earlier experiments among homeless populations in San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. There was nothing about the program that involved rocket science, but in cutting back on emergency 911 calls costing …