New Orleans We’ve all heard the sayings before. A stitch in time saves nine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Now it seems that with some incentives being provided to hospitals through the Affordable Care Act, some of them are learning these old lessons, perhaps for the first time with feeling. …
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Affordable Care Act Backwash
New Orleans Talking to Professor Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University on Wade’s World about his new book, American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Inaction, about how our political and organizational communication can subvert our own message or “self-undermining rhetoric” in his words, I asked him for his opinion about how the Administration “sold” …
More Handles Emerging to Force Accountability for Nonprofit Hospitals
New Orleans No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states that continue to refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, we are going to have to push so-called nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals …