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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

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Senate is Unanimous: Shut Up!

DC Politics Health Care September 26, 2013 by digital

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 …

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Obamacare: One Big Corporate Rip-off and One Huge Gap

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care September 24, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  As hope soars for the new Affordable Care Act and its coming coverage of the uninsured, some of the discoveries of the problems with the law produce a heavy heart.             Yesterday we looked at one big healthcare company’s attempt to scam the system and rip-off their lower waged workers by trying to …

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Punishing the Clinic Door Strategy in Texas and Florida at the Polls

Citizen Wealth Health Care Ideas and Issues September 20, 2013 by digital

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 …

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