As in any other playoff, candidate rhetoric let loose during the U.S. presidential race can be tough. We’ve held a front row seat to the 2012 showdown for over a year, with tensions still rising as the general election looms nearer. Some of the barbs launched along the campaign trail have been laughable: Newt Gingrich’s television ad incriminating Mitt Romney for his ability to speak French comes to mind. Others are not. The dialogue surrounding U.S. poverty and inequality, two issues that are hotter than ever during a deep recession that the nation has shown incapable of simply shaking off [...]
Uninsured
A ‘secret war” against the poor?
Those with poor credit are routinely denied various services unfairly, even if credit is ultimately irrelevant to them. Most insurers raise the rates of poor-credit customers, even though insurance companies are not extending credit of any kind and poor-credit customers present no greater risk than richer ones. Those are among the needless obstacles the... »
High unemployment swells numbers of uninsured
Extended unemployment has increased the number of uninsured Americans to 52 million, with many of the newly uninsured unable to find replacement policies on the individual market. The Commonwealth Fund estimates that 26 million Americans sought individual health plans between 2007 and 2010, with about 11 million unable to find plans that offered adequate... »