“It’s a very strange feeling, praying for someone to die so a loved one can live,” our dear pal, Richard Zimmerman, told me. Barbara had recently moved back to New York City after living in Washington, DC, for her dream job in public relations, before falling gravely sick.
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Report: 37,000 Louisiana jobs at risk if Obamacare is repealed
An estimated 37,000 Louisiana jobs will be lost if Congress ends the Medicaid expansion program and premium tax credits linked to the federal Affordable Care Act, according to a new nonpartisan report. Repealing the health-care law would lead to a $639.7 million loss in state and local taxes; a $39.1 billion loss in business output; and a $21.5 billion hit to the gross state product, according to the report from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and nonprofit Commonwealth Fund.