New Hampshire Bulletin (Nov. 4, 2024). It is open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage insurers. However, recent headlines would suggest it is more like open season on those consumers who might choose a profit-seeking middleman over the traditional fee-for-service Medicare signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. A report this month by the U.S. Department Read More
Keene Sentinel (Oct. 1, 2024). In this ugly campaign year, we are hearing nothing about the biggest policy accomplishment, for good or ill, of the Biden Administration. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 was a $1.9 trillion expenditure, of which $350 billion went to state and local governments. The sugar high from that Read More
Union Leader (Aug. 29, 2024). NEW HAMPSHIRE has the nation’s second-oldest population and yet is not doing enough to accommodate the age wave crashing onto the shores of its fragile nursing home care system. According to the latest near-term projections from New Hampshire Employment Security, we will see 1,159 licensed nursing assistant (LNA) openings each Read More
Portsmouth Herald (July 7, 2024). I have a great deal of respect for those who work in corrections. My master’s degree is in criminal justice, and I have spent time touring prison cell blocks with correctional officers, and on the street accompanying probation officers. Thus, I am sympathetic to a request to the Legislative Fiscal Committee from Read More