Last night, I attended the Town Hall meeting at Dunbar High School on the years-long investigation into the Fort Myers Police Department conducted by the Freeh Group (run by Judge Louis Freeh, ex-FBI Director, who also conducted the Penn State investigation). The findings are sobering and the community reasonably concerned about follow-through on holding elected […]
More news in the wake of the failure to repeal the ACA. More access to healthcare? New Medicaid Expansions http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/death-of-obamacare-repeal-could-spur-new-medicaid-expansions_us_58d99531e4b018c4606ab8b7
Last week, Congress failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act or to replace it with a bill that would have upended Americans’ access to healthcare for the second time in the last few years. As noted on this blog, the American healthcare system has been in a never-ending state of upheaval for generations. Political “fixes” […]
Medicaid expansion in the wake of Congress’ failure to repeal and replace ACA? Republican Governors for Medicaid Expansion
Supervision improves mortality outcomes in healthcare. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/well/live/when-hospital-inspectors-are-watching-fewer-patients-die.html?referer=https://t.co/88Hq8Rh028
The week was about a healthcare overhaul that may never come to pass. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/24/house-obamacare-repeal-vote/99573690/
Another consumer victory we championed in the appellate courts. Insurance companies often claim that everything they do on a particular claim is privileged and secret because it is their “work product” prepared in anticipation of litigation. That is not always true and we successfully appealed the issue in Signorelli v. Fireman’s Fund. In that case, […]
Travel day across the Alley yesterday. New proposal for supervised injection centers to save lives today. Another Senseless Death – New England Journal of Medicine
Twenty four million Americans will lose insurance within the next two years and premiums will explode if the ACA is repealed and replaced as planned. Cost of Obamacare Repeal You can read the CBO Report here. CBO Report on ACA Repeal
Massive Fraud in our Nursing Homes from False Claims. Justice Department Nails Nursing Homes for False Claims
