Tag Archives: Health Care Reform

Repeal Obamacare? Not Quite So Easy….Unless You’re Peddling Hokum

Posted on 13 November, 2016 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – this thoughtful piece is from the Washington Post. Authored by Steven Pearlstein, a WaPo business and economics writer, he is also Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University. Some data before you go on to … Continue reading →

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Lies in the Guise of News in the Trump Era

Posted on 13 November, 2016 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – The next months in our United States will be fraught. How many of our people could have been convinced to vote for a fraud, a charlatan, a self-described abuser of women is a question that will consume … Continue reading →

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Conclusions: De‑Ba’athification

Posted on 3 September, 2016 by AJ Layon

SECTION 11.2 CONCLUSIONS: DE‑BA’ATHIFICATION Contents Introduction and key findings……………………………………………………….58 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………………58 Lessons……………………………………………………………………………………..61 The Report of the Iraq Inquiry 58 Introduction and key findings 1. This Section contains the Inquiry’s analysis, conclusions and lessons in relation to the de‑Ba’athification of the Iraqi … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: My dad came from Spain to the US to visit me and had to go to ER at UCLA. I’m estimating the bill to be around $10,000 (no insurance). I’…

Posted on 9 July, 2014 by AJ Layon

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Quora Query: Is there Only One Universal Coverage Alternative to the Current US Health Insurance System Which Would be the Most Efficient ?

Posted on 24 November, 2013 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – My son suggested I pay attention to Quora – an on line Q&A system – and I now do. Here is a question I was asked to answer. Interesting question, for sure. AJL ———————————— The answer to … Continue reading →

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Mental Health and the Affordable Care Act – Not So Fast !

Posted on 9 November, 2013 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – Although this was posted in 2013, it remains true in January of 2020. This was an idiotic rule made for the implementation of the ACA. Yet another of the 320 million reasons that we really need Medicare … Continue reading →

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The Affordable Care Act – On Line Now !

Posted on 5 October, 2013 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – Perhaps like a few of you, I have been watching with growing unease the Government shutdown brought on by the Right’s intense dislike – or so it appears to me – of our Centrist President Obama.  Driving … Continue reading →

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Health Care Quality, Safety, Satisfaction: Is International Translation Possible?

Posted on 22 March, 2013 by AJ Layon

A special lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for a course: Politics, Health, Sociology, and their Nexus

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Quality and The Affordable Care Act

Posted on 17 March, 2013 by AJ Layon

There is a great deal written on President Obama’s health care – actually mostly insurance – reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much of it driven by the ideology of the writer and / or the organization for whom the … Continue reading →

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Handling Absolute Lies – What Does One Do?

Posted on 21 October, 2012 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader: About a month ago, I received a request for help from a friend, S.  Her mother-in-law – F. – had been sent a series of assertions related to the Affordable Care Act; things that “were going to happen”.  … Continue reading →

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