The Scandals Infecting Medicaid Disenrollment

Policy

            Pearl River       One of the major successes of the Biden administration’s handling of the pandemic was the provision in the Covid relief legislation and appropriations in 2020 that required states to maintain Medicaid enrollment under the Affordable Care Act as the quid pro quo to receive additional funding.  According to government figures, over 90 …

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Dealing with SLAPP Suits, Euro-Style

ACORN International Social Media

New Orleans      SLAPP or Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation lawsuits are not a new corporate tactic to stop various campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and membership organizations from exercising their right and duty to protest against adverse corporate practices and developments.  Such suits have been filed in the United States for decades at this point.  …

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Discouraging Climate Policies, but Hats Off to the Climate Concerned Nuns

Climate Change

            New Orleans        A plausible summary on global public policies to deal with climate change would boil down to a lot of talk that produces little real action.  At least that was my takeaway in reading about the German-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change’s analysis of 1500 climate policies in …

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