Quote from a Los Angeles Times article: A breast cancer patient whose medical coverage was canceled by her insurer was awarded more than $9 million today in a case against Health Net Inc., one of the state’s largest for-profit insurers. Continue Reading » »
Michelle Obama has gotten a lot of bad press for her comment that for the first time in her life she is proud of America. The situation got worse in that she waited several days before addressing the criticism, and even worse in the way she defended herself when she finally did address the issue. All together, it has left a lot of people wondering about her inter beliefs. Continue Reading » »
The next President will be faced with one of the worse situations that any President has ever been faced with; our federal budget deficient and our national debt. Even if the war in Iraq and all of our other domestic problems went away, the next president would have a full plate to deal with. Continue Reading » »
Three executives connected with the mortgage crisis will be before a congressional committee next week to defend their excessive pay packages. Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Financial ($115 million), former Merrill Lynch Chairman Stanley O’Neal ($161 million), and ex-Citigroup chief Charles Prince ($68 million) will have the honors. Continue Reading » »
Google has deactivated “Inter City Press” internet news site which is owned and operated by Matthew Lee. According to Lee, Google took his news site off the internet because he has been critical of the United Nations. He claims that after Google became a partner with UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) on anti-poverty goals, the United Nations put pressure on Google to remove Lee’s site. Continue Reading » »
Michael Chertoff said yesterday that FEMA is “getting out of the trailer business”. “We are no longer going to provide trailers for people in disasters,” he said. He cited the high levels of formaldehyde found in the manufacturing of trailers as the reason for not providing trailers in the future. Continue Reading » »
This morning CNN Headline News reported Blue Cross Blue Shield of California had sent out letters to doctors in the state asking them to screen patients for serious medical conditions so that they, BCBS, could cancel the insurance on policy holders with serious health problems. When caught with their pants down, BCBS said they are discontinuing the letter because they have “determined this letter is no longer necessary”. Continue Reading » »
With Democrats in control of Congress now, they have taken aim at the entire drug industry. Several investigations are either already underway or planned. The pharmaceutical industry seems to be circling the wagons. Democrat Representative Bart Stupak said “You know you’re hitting a nerve when the halls are flooded with their lobbyists”. Continue Reading » »
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