New York Finally, we have found an issue where the entire United States Senate is unanimous: Ted Cruz has to shut up! After wasting more than 21 hours on a Tea Party ego-trip rant about health insurance, Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, where there are 5 million uninsured, even voted, bizarrely, to silence himself. This …
Tag: Affordable Care Act (ACA)
ACA Conundrums: Smaller Networks, Low Premiums, High Deductibles
New Orleans As the countdown to enrollment in ACA comes closer with October 1st ringing the opening bell, low to moderate income families and workers without health insurance are facing a quandary of competing claims and conflicting news reports. I read a report recently of a call from the White House to various groups including …
Punishing the Clinic Door Strategy in Texas and Florida at the Polls
Baton Rouge There is a desperate and cynical political strategy at work in the efforts of Florida Governor Rick Scott and Texas Governor Rick Perry in their attempts to bar people from the clinic doors trying to enroll under the new Affordable Care Act on October 1st. This Rick-o-say strategy will in fact ricochet on …