Greetings!
The Ohio Redistricting Commission threw down the gauntlet yesterday, voting to resubmit a legislative redistricting plan that the Supreme Court has already twice rejected.
The all-in move by the Commission’s GOP majority appears a direct challenge to the Court’s authority and renews the question whether some or all the commissioners, including Gov. DeWine and Secretary of State LaRose, could be held in contempt. Read more here.
Elsewhere, at the intersection of health care and your wallet, a report released last week by the Inspector General has raised questions whether consumers and health care providers are being denied procedures and compensation, respectively, by Medicare Advantage plans intent on improperly boosting corporate profits. Learn more here.
Harvard University remains the unrivaled leader in American higher education, so its recent acknowledgment of the role that slavery played in its rise to preeminence is a major development. Earlier this week, RDP columnist Marvin McMickle shared how Harvard’s past was far from unique. Today, Wornie Reed writes about how “few if any corners of white America failed to benefit from slavery, and that merely “confessing” is insufficient to address the systemic need for “societally based reparations”. What are your thoughts?
Speaking of health and race, next week the American Hospital Association will bring the Accelerating Health Equity Conference to town. Read about it here.
Finally, we will be an in-studio guest panelist on ideastream this morning at 9am. Tune in if you have a chance.
Cheers!
R. T. Andrews
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