Mar 16 2010

50/50

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If you’re an American under the age of 65, there’s roughly a 50/50 chance that you will find yourself without coverage at some point in the next decade.[Source]
President Obama first highlighted this staggering figure in a weekly address from this past September and detailed how, in [...]

Mar 10 2010

The protest at the AHIP insurance company conference in DC was astroturfed

I knew it the moment I saw it on television and before I saw the signs, but it was just a gut feeling based on Obama’s, the SEIU’s, and HCAN’s history.

The SEIU and HCAN (Health Care for America Now) bused in activists from DE, CT, MD, MN, VA, NJ, NC, NY, OH, PA, RI. In [...]

Mar 9 2010

So That’s Why They’re Raising Rates So Much …

If we enact health reform, it will restrict how much of your premium dollars can be spent on profits and overhead by requiring health insurance companies to spend 80-85% of the money they take in on care.
That’s worth keeping in mind. Because right after the Insurance companies announced huge rate increases for families across the [...]

Feb 22 2010

LA Fitness Changes Channels - Fox replaced by CNN?

A “corporate” decision?
If true, it’s time to switch gyms and put your money with businesses that are not openly promoting liberal-progressive thinking. Besides, Fox News more than triples CNN’s ratings, ergo more people want to see Fox; and in spite of this, LA Fitness corporate management is pandering to Left.
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Feb 18 2010

Sarah Palin then and now

George Will’s latest column is, I think, almost spot-on in its discussion of Sarah Palin. My only quibble is with Will’s perhaps playful comparison of Palin to William Miller, Barry Goldwater’s nominee for vice president in 1964. Miller realized that Goldwater would be trounced and, according to some reports, went through the [...]

Feb 15 2010

Welfare Reform Comes to Rotterdam

A priceless line from today's online Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Whoever is on welfare in Rotterdam must now do at least something to receive his money."
Yikes! But that is how severe this global recession is—even the Netherlands must contemplate those two most dreaded words: welfare reform. Those on the dole—including foreigners—may even have to take on [...]

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