Little Rock Being a commuter these days between New Orleans and Little Rock, it is interesting to watch the convolutions that Arkansas and its legislature are going through to try and fashion a partnership with the federal government to run the health care exchange option under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare. Time is ticking …
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“Smooth Slide to the Floor” for Lower Wage Workers Facing Obamacare
New Orleans Talking to a senior labor relations director for a health care company yesterday where our union was a terribly cold shower of reality. This company has 45,000 employees with 34,000 hourly, direct care staff similar to what we represent. We asked him how they were looking at the Americans Affordable Care Act …
Governors United Against Low-and-Moderate Income Families: Sales vs. Income Taxes
New Orleans This is all getting to be very scary. At first you think, wow, how can this be happening here, and then you realize that you are not living through some kind of sick social experiment of reverse Robin Hoodism, but instead are just one test tube of a right wing Republican lab experiment …