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Families Struggle Paying for Child Care While Working

Finding a reputable child care facility or person to watch your child or children has become more difficult and costly. The EPI articles compares the cost to other items as well as costs in each state. For low wage workers the costs have become unsustainable. Policymakers have been pushing for addition sources for preschool care. […]

RFK Jr. blames the victims

Oops! Poor RFK Jr. He’s had to tiptoe back his attacks on childhood vaccines in the face of a measles outbreak in Texas. What’s a poor anti-vaxxer to do. Well, since vaccine denialists can never be wrong, they can only be wronged, Kennedy blames the victims: “In later comments, Kennedy suggested that severe symptoms mainly […]

The branding of Medicaid

Let’s call Medicaid by its real name. “While 80 million Americans are insured through Medicaid, many people don’t think of themselves as “on Medicaid” — even when they are. “Why? Because Medicaid is not branded as Medicaid in most states. If you tell a patient in South Carolina they might lose Medicaid, their eyes may […]

Why Healthcare Costs So Much . . .

Having been a part of supply chain for decades, it was left to me to understand more than distribution. knowing the actual cost provides a foundation to negotiate. I would cost-model components right down to the materials. Having such detail and understanding the other costs allows you to have a basis to negotiate. And yes, […]

Could Elon Musk Take on Healthcare and Healthcare Insurers and Lower Costs?

Healthcare and healthcare insurance was not cheap a couple of years ago and not cheap last year either. If anything, prices have increase resulting in higher Commercial Health Insurance costs. Then too deductibles for Medicare increase ~$10. Supplemental also increased. The costs for Medicare and supplemental are less than Commercial Healthcare Insurance. We are talking […]

Medicaid Cuts as Promoted by WSJ

As a subscriber to xpostfactoid, I have access to some excellent commentary by Andrew Spung. This is not a person I would argue with about the ACA, Medicare or Medicaid, etc. Anyway, the WSJ has an article touting Medicaid cuts which did catch his attention and is the basis for his commentary. The link is […]

See no evil

Toddlers will sometimes cover their eyes, thinking they are hiding. They think if they can’t see you, you’re not there. Using that toddler logic at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the Trump administration at the time tried to curtail reporting of infections and death, on the toddler-tested premise that if you can’t see it, […]

Study Shows Workers Fleeing States With Abortion Bans

AB: I apologize as this is way too brief. Women should have and need the right to decide what is correct for themselves without dictates by outside influences. It appears the outside influences want control of the rights of women to decide and are willing to punish them for exercising that right. There’s a new […]

RFK Jr comes to Jesus

As a lifelong member of The Church of the Second Chance, I get this: “Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep. ‘ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than […]