By The Admin on March 22, 2010
When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law in 1965, seniors got their health insurance cards less than a year later.
When President Barack Obama finally gets to hold a signing ceremony for his health care overhaul, the major expansion of coverage for uninsured workers and their families won’t come until 2014—after the next presidential election.
Parts [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times
- The other morning while tourists were lining up for an early lunch at Sylvia’s soul food restaurant in Harlem, Rodney Capel and Basil Smikle were finishing breakfast — and dissecting the travails of the local political machine.
Usually by now they’d be chewing over lists of Democrats eager to jump into [...]
Posted in State & Local News
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
Congressmen Elijah E. Cummings (MD-7), former Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, cast his vote Sunday for H.R. 3590, the Senate amendments to the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Included in that bill was a change in national healthcare policy, originally authored by Congressman Cummings, which will help address the mounting racial disparities in [...]
Posted in Congress, Health
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frustrated with President Barack Obama’s insistence that a rising economic tide for all will lift African-American boats.
Yet despite surging discontent among some [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
Sophia A. Nelson, Washington Post
- All of this talk about a post-racial America where black people are seemingly thriving, partying at the White House with Jay-Z, and enjoying unprecedented access and opportunity is really starting to irk me because it is simply not the reality of most black Americans. In fact, a quiet storm has [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
