Harry Hopkins’ presumptuous dream
Writing Medicaid Pauperism reminded me of a quote from Harry Hopkins, who significantly administrated some of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, written in 1936: Communities now find themselves in […]
Medicaid Pauperism
It’s a peculiar feeling, as you age and perhaps gain a brief sense of the place in which you reside through this particular point in human history. Like paddling in […]
high-risk pools are a joke and this one tweet is proof the GOP knows it
As the Republican party continues it’s internal discussions about how best to renew the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (after they stopped playing political hot potato with the […]
still catastrophically insufficient
Via Andy Orin on Lifehacker, Facebook is jumping on the ‘earn a bit of side profit by mediating folk’s desperate pleas for money to help cover emergency expenses in the […]
AHCA is Paul Ryan’s dystopian vision for American health care
The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the House plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would, if passed, dis-insure 14 million Americans next year. By 2016, relative to current […]
Obamacare’s slow demise
To get a good sense of what direction the perpetually around-the-corner Republican replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act will look like, read Jonathan Cohn’s piece on new regulations proposed […]
On health care coverage and skin in the game
Given how often various Republicans et. al. have stated that their health care reform process won’t deprive people of their current coverage, I imagine one consequence will be a wide-ranging […]
