Tag Archives: Health care

A real 2014 horror story

While researching the topic of mobile health services for an article I was writing, I came across this report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In June 2012, The foundation supported a symposium by The Institute for Alternative Futures that … Continue reading

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If politicians treat poor people like they treat dirt roads, we’re all in trouble

Seven-hundred-sixty-nine thousand-nine-hundred. I wrote the number out so you’d have to read each word. If that many small businesses were threatened with failure, you can bet there’d be an outcry. If that many utility poles fell, the state would be  … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on health care

A couple thoughts on the health care debate before the U.S. Supreme Court. 1. In the mid-1990s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that garbage was an interstate commodity. Based on a case that originated in New Jersey, the justices ruled … Continue reading

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