New Orleans It’s easy to see why the American Medical Associations, the powerful AMA, the doctors’ closed shop union, wanted to keep the wraps on how doctors collected $77 billion worth in Medicare payments from the nation’s elderly. There’s just nothing that seems right about one single Florida-based ophthalmologist raking in $21 million all by …
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Submerged State
New Orleans A frequent theme in the years leading up to the complicated and star crossed rollout of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare among the pundits, editorial writers, and commentators tried to nick the President for his weak kneed efforts to “sell” the program to the American public. Reading Cornell Professor Suzanne Mettler’s Submerged State: …
Not Enough Votes in his Class, Romney Now Toast
New Orleans Here’s what Mitt Romney didn’t learn at the country club and the millionaire’s ball: when you declare class war, you better have your troops in line. So sure when you talk to your buddies, as he did in the fundraiser video, about all of the moochers in the 47% or 99% or whatever, …