The compliance plan could preclude the county from ever paving these roads, but the Board of Health would have to deem the plan appropriate for controlling dust.

In traditional Medicare, over 97 cents of every dollar spent goes to directly providing health care. Under the Part D disaster, we are just starting to see the enormous cost of privatization.

Industries that are experiencing labor shortages, such as health care, are very focused on this segment.

We didn't know that he had bi-polar but it's true of anyone with mental health issues that when they're being managed, they do not talk about it. So it caught all of us by surprise. But when we look back on it, his behavior did change. It became erratic.

Lots of mental health facilities won't take people with substance abuse problems. Or places for substance abuse treatment can't help with mental issues.

Essentially the health care infrastructure of New Orleans is gone it no longer exists.