affordable care act Archive
Considered a serious danger to the wealth of private corporations and individuals, the highly class-conscious corporate-run, profiteering U.S. business community seeks to contain and reduce the political power of the 99%.
In the current Affordable Care Act debate, the mainstream media has ignored a solution standing in plain sight. It is a more efficient and affordable system for universal coverage in the public interest: single-payer national health insurance.
By Ray Glier Kayla VanDyke, 23, was on her way in a career as an advocate for foster youth in Oregon. She had a college degree in human physiology and she was working for Foster Club, an advocacy organization, counseling …
Fifty social work leaders and scholars gathered last year in Chicago to discuss ways to maximize social work’s effectiveness in health care delivery in the wake of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148). The …
May I be the first to offer what will likely become a much-repeated paraphrasing of a famed Monty Python skit: “Obamacare is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. It is stiff. …
No one said that this would be easy. As the Monday, March 31st deadline rapidly approaches, time for purchasing a healthcare insurance plan in the marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is dwindling. Enrollment appears to be picking …
Something that made a small headline the other day is when several Republican governors conceded that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is here to stay. The purpose of the headline, of course, was to try to suppress some of the …
The nation’s governors gathered in Washington, DC over the weekend to share ideas about how best to address some of the nation’s most vexing problems. States are often thought of as policy laboratories wherein each state implements varying policies to …
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act are waiting with bated breath to see the eventual outcome of the controversial legislation. Needless to say, opponents of the law which they derisively refer to as “Obamacare,” are seizing any and every opportunity …
Federal policies frequently have profound effects on how social workers are able to provide services to children and families yet many practitioners and consumers are often unaware of the policies that are impacting them. Policies come in the form of …
