This weekend, as Tift Merrit and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot jammed away at the Newport Folk Festival, I attended the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Statewide Coalition (RISC, pronounced risk) about a mile away on Goat Island at the Hyatt Regency hotel. RISC is a grassroots taxpayer advocacy group that aims to improve the quality […]
Waiting for the Dough
On February 17, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1, a bill containing $787 billion tax dollars to be dispersed throughout the country to “stimulate” the economy. Today, $67 billion of the stimulus money has been spent. $24.3 billion went to Health and Human Services to shore up flagging state balance sheets. The Department of […]
The Better Way is the Cheaper Way
Of the 45.7 million people in the country that are supposedly starved of any available health insurance, 17.6 million have a family income of over $50,000 a year, plenty to afford health care if they want it. Of the remaining 28.1 million, 14.1 million are already eligible for Medicaid or SCHIPP, but simply aren’t enrolling. […]
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