Patient Power Is Dead: Obamacare and Alternatives
On July 19, 2017, at least 155 demonstrators were arrested by U.S. Capitol police for creating a coordinated disturbance at U.S. Senate office buildings. The scofflaw infiltration was in response…
Medicaid
Patient Power Is Dead: Medicare for All
Two years after the incursion at the congressional offices, the Center for Popular Democracy endorsed Medicare for All, one of many left-leaning nonprofits that have done so. Over the years…
Patient Power Is Dead: Big Labor and Medicare for All
National Nurses United, another of the groups listed in the Washington Post accounts about the 2017 incursion into congressional offices, is a stridently left-wing labor union, which was one of…
Patient Power Is Dead: Labor Unions and the ACA
While large in number, these supporters of single-payer schemes such as Medicare for All remain (though not always) the most left-leaning of the nonprofits, unions, political committees, and Democrats. In…
Patient Power Is Dead: Promoters of the Status Quo
The Affordable Care Act wasn’t much of a reform for our broken third-party payment health care system, so much as a status quo effort to stuff millions more people into…
Patient Power Is Dead: The Arabella Network
It is difficult to track the funding for many ACA advocates. There have been at least two dozen different Arabella subsidiaries with a major mission objective of promoting increases in…
Patient Power Is Dead: Arabella’s Secretive 2018 Election Projects
During the 2018 federal elections, Arabella deployed more than a dozen state-specific political projects to agitate against Republicans who didn’t support left-leaning health care policies. An October 2018 report in…
Families USA Shows the Sharp Divide Between Health Care Consumers and Customers
Later this month the lefty nonprofit Families USA will host its annual Health Action Conference. Families USA’s motto boasts that it is “The voice of healthcare consumers.” The slogan should…
League of Women Voters: A Legacy of Liberal Issues and Causes
(PDF here) Summary: The 95-year-old League of Women Voters isn’t quite what it seems. It has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as a nonideological, nonpartisan, good-government group, but contrary…