San Francisco Erik Eckholm of the Times is one of the last reporters on the “poverty beat” in the country, and by god I almost feel a personal obligation to read his pieces and try to get the word out before the paltry news of the poor disappears from papers altogether. He was on the …
Category: Health Care
Republicans Going Brit
San Francisco Before running off to Books, Inc, I watched the Obama speech at the Tides Momentum conference. I was prepared to be disappointed, so I was pleasantly surprised that the President had fight in him and was pushing hard across the board, including on the public alternatives. I liked the fact that he was …
Massachusetts Immigrants Maybe. Poor, Doubtful
Baltimore A compromise of sorts seems to have been reached in Massachusetts to provide some form of health coverage for the 31,000 LEGAL immigrants in the state that had been bounced off the rolls as a cost savings measure. The other victim of this cost cutting were the poor families whose automatic enrollment in the …