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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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When National Healthcare is Not Mean, but Vindictive, Not Policy, but Politics

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues June 26, 2017 by digital

New Orleans  Healthcare is a huge part of the overall US economy and, arguably, of critical importance to every American. Regardless of the cliché, it is in fact a question of life and death. Yet we are watching a horror show spectacle of a White House that is clueless about anything but whether or not …

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Republicans’ Healthcare Bill: Is it Loving the Rich or Hating the Old, Poor, and Disabled?

Ideas and Issues June 23, 2017 by digital

New Orleans  Ok, it’s alright if you admit it. Deep down, way deep, way down, some of you hoped that the Senate would really write a healthcare bill that looked and tasted a little bit like Obama’s Affordable Care Act. When President Trump said that he thought the House Republicans’ bill was “mean,” some of …

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Healthcare Lives Another Day, but Does Trump Have a Way to Win?

DC Politics Health Care National Politics March 25, 2017March 27, 2017 by digital

New Orleans   The Trump Tower has now been reduced to rubble. Ryan’s House is a shambles. Obamacare is now with us “for the foreseeable future,” according to the Speaker. Right now the Affordable Care Act is better than nothing, but it could be nothing better. The best news of the Trumpcare debacle and the inability …

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