by Richard Eskow | May 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
(This is Part 3 of a series on our ongoing - and worsening - national healthcare crisis.) As major provisions in the Affordable Care Act are rolled out, we'll need a way to track its effectiveness - a scorecard for "Obamacare," as it's now universally called. What's...
by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Part 1 of this series took a look at family healthcare costs for people with “good” insurance – better insurance, in fact, than most people will receive from the Affordable Care Act’s health care exchanges. We found that these costs soared above those of other...
by Richard Eskow | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Is our country losing the vision and values that gave rise to Social Security? Social Security benefits lag far behind those of other developed countries. A new analysis of census data shows that elder poverty is much higher than we first realized. And yet the...
by Richard Eskow | May 28, 2013 | Blog
The real healthcare battle in this country isn’t the one being fought over the bill everyone now calls “Obamacare.” In fact, it's not a battle between Republicans and Democrats at all. The real battle is the one millions of Americans face every day as they struggle to...
by Richard Eskow | May 22, 2013 | Making it in America
Did you know that Apple Computer has become a foreign entity? Did you know that it's more Irish than anything else, at least as far as taxes are concerned? Or that it pays very little in income tax, even though its products wouldn’t exist if it not for U.S. taxes?...
