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Tag Archives: Iowa medicaid privatization
What Is This Woman Thinking?
video 30 seconds: It is not my custom to run an ad for a Republican candidate but this one just cries out for analysis. It would be hard to do analysis without viewing the object to be analyzed. So forgive … Continue reading
Health Care, Health Care, Health Care!
We spent most of the holiday in the emergency room with an elderly relative. For those who have been in a similar situation you know that you will have a lot of time on your hands while waiting for test … Continue reading
Iowa’s Medicaid Toothache
I worked as an admissions clerk at the University of Iowa Dental Clinic after graduate school. We saw patients from all around Iowa — wealthy patients with private insurance, indigents with limited means, and everyone in between. Anyone who came … Continue reading
Posted in Iowa Legislature
Tagged Iowa Medicaid, Iowa Medicaid changes, Iowa Medicaid cuts, Iowa medicaid privatization
Inequality Kim
In the year or so that Kim Reynolds has been in charge of the state government and for the 6+ years that she was Branstad’s top lieutenant one thing seems to stand out as her main focus: widening the inequality … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Education, Kim Reynolds
Tagged Inequality Kim, Iowa medicaid privatization
Loebsack: Iowa Medicaid Experiment Has Failed
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Dave Loebsack released the following statement today after a report from the Des Moines Register showed that the Federal Government could be on the hook to pay $225 million to the private, for-profit insurance companies who … Continue reading
Posted in David Loebsack
Tagged Iowa medicaid privatization
Democrats Continue To Run On Issues
As Republicans across the country and across Iowa run on fear and hate, Democrats continue to run on actual issues. This is often overlooked by the corporate media. Donald Trump himself has so confused things that he has decided to … Continue reading
Privatization
Iowa’s recent very unpopular and poorly thought out experience with the privatization of the administration of Medicaid in Iowa makes one wonder what are the roots of privatization in this country and how pervasive is privatization. Much like guns or … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Branstad
Tagged historic trend, Iowa medicaid privatization, Privatization, profitization
The Courtney Report
(ed. note: The excerpts this week focus on getting help for Medicaid recipients who have been left behind by the rush to privatization. More of Sen. Courtney’s newsletter can be found here) UPCOMING PUBLIC FORUMS Burlington Medicaid listening session – … Continue reading
Posted in Courtney Report
Tagged Iowa medicaid privatization
Legislative Forums: Republicans Misdirect, Obfuscate
Not many folks take advantage of the legislative forums that are held throughout the state during the legislative session. Usually these are held on Saturdays in cities and towns around the state. Members of the legislature for the area come … Continue reading