The Failure and Rip-offs of Water Privatization

ACORN Local 100 Privatization Protests

            Pearl River      The last thing any of us need is another lesson in the absolute irresponsibility of any public officials or authority ever allowing vital community resources to be privatized as commodities and plums to be picked by private equity pirates.   This time, like so many times before, it’s the foolhardy privatization of water.  …

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Scamming Hospice Care for Medicare Dollars

ACORN Grift Labor Local 100 Personal Writings United Labor Unions

            Pearl River     Having navigated hospice care for my mother several years ago, I thought I had a fairly good grasp of how it worked and who benefited, but that didn’t quite prepare me for reading “Endgame:  How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle” in The New Yorker.  As soon as I hit …

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More Hospital Scams Abetted by the Feds

ACORN International Hospital Accountability Labor Neighbor Local 100

            New Orleans       With each news story reaffirming earlier regional reports by ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and Labor Neighbor, I don’t know how to get around the conclusion that many tax-exempt, supposedly nonprofit hospitals are a sham, little more than wolves in sheep’s clothing, and no better than the low bar set …

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