(Community Matters) Politico Playbook: “Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D ., chair of medical ethics and health policy at UPenn; White House special adviser on health reform from ’09 to ’11; son of a pediatrician; older brother to Rahm and Ari (published this week by PublicAffairs): “In the short term the ACA has been a political disaster for President Obama and the Democrats. … And it has left the Obama administration in a perpetually defensive stance, depleted of the political capital needed to achieve progress in other important policy areas such as immigration and the federal budget. …
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It's about community, entrepreneurs, politics, art . . and sometimes just silly fun . . . a slightly gay blog.Eugene Sepulveda
Love big West Texas skies, Austin and my husband, Dr. Steven Robert Tomlinson, with whom I’ve spent the last 18 years – thirteen years since we were married on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Then, married again at St. James Episcopal Church in Austin, TX on June 27, 2015.
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- RT @zackkanter: Larry Ellison on Bill Gates being an absolute savage. (‘Softwar’) https://t.co/ZL4US4nWei 1 day ago
- Couldn’t agree more . . . “Companies need clear business plans that put democracy front and centre.” economist.com/by-invitation/… 1 day ago
- RT @tplohetski: NEW: To reiterate, the suspected gunman was not in custody a short time ago. People in this area need to use extreme cautio… 1 day ago
- “They need to be in the room with us as we make our decisions,” Powell [Fed Reserve Chair] said. - Jerome Powell is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- RT @tplohetski: BREAKING: Austin police and medics confirm a shooting in Northwest Austin near the Arboretum in what has been described as… 1 day ago
- @stowellatx @josiahstevenson @MayorAdler There are models of SOR and/or family occupied residences w comprehensive… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- @stowellatx @MayorAdler Austin, it wasn't all rules & regs...Alan looked at sites that cld have worked but for neig… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
- @stowellatx @MayorAdler Austin, if I recall Alan couldn’t build in Austin because neighborhoods wouldn’t allow him to do so. 2 days ago
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- This isn't blame first; it's acknowledging our own faults - incidentally, the only way I believe we regain America's moral authority. 3 days ago
- WSJ editorial board doesn't get the importance of self awareness, transparency & empathy to leadership. on.wsj.com/32k3Ev9 3 days ago
- Not sure what's going on here. Why still land confiscations along border wall easements? twitter.com/TPM/status/138… 3 days ago
- RT @catmchs: Thx to #ATXcouncil for making child care a priority in economic recovery. “A study found 1 in 3 women cited child care as the… 3 days ago
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- Economist fears “closer they [bizppl] get to govt, more harm to both the eco & politics.” Considering Amer biz’s mu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
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