Everyone thought these companies couldn’t handle the end of the repayment pause. Everyone was right.
privatization
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Corporate Headhunters Shouldn’t Control Who Can Be a Fed Reserve Bank President
We need a democratic process for appointing leaders of regional Fed banks.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Medicare Advantage Trap
In 46 states, once you choose Medicare Advantage at 65, you can almost never leave.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘$23 Billion Up for Grabs’
Joe Biden’s embrace of VA outsourcing just got worse.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Jackson Out of Sight as Mississippi Goes to the Polls
The state’s water crisis hasn’t fully abated, but nobody’s talking about it on the campaign trail.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Maine Tries to Take Back Its Utilities
A ballot measure would convert two investor-owned power companies into a public nonprofit. Unionized utility workers aren’t sold.
Posted inTAP
The Case for Radical Public Options
Today on TAP: There are too many realms with public consequences where the private sector is inefficient and rapacious. Some might call the remedy socialism.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption
Investor-owned utilities have been at the forefront of numerous political scandals and ecological disasters. There is an alternative.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Patient Zero
Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Sick System
The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack.
