June 15, 2010 – 9:00 am
“If you like your health insurance, yada yada yada” The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant†new burdens […]
June 8, 2010 – 10:00 am
Sadly, expect more and more of this, which goes right along with what the ObamaCare supporters and legislators actually want A Virginia-based insurance company says “considerable uncertainties†created by the Democrats’ health care overhaul will force it to close its doors by the end of the year. The firm, nHealth, appears to be the first […]
June 1, 2010 – 10:45 am
Wait, what was that last part? Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, kicked off a fierce battle with drug companies and […]
May 7, 2010 – 8:10 am
Happy Friday! Here’s an interesting story from yesterday that I just never got around to The great mystery surrounding the historic health care bill is how the corporations that provide coverage for most Americans — coverage they know and prize — will react to the new law’s radically different regime of subsidies, penalties, and taxes. […]
May 6, 2010 – 7:51 am
Nancy Pelosi said we would have to pass the bill to find out what was in it, and, unshockingly, easter eggs are still showing up. Not the cool kind which gives you a secret level or a historical slugger, but the kind that takes away all your weapons or wipes out all your game stats […]
April 26, 2010 – 5:37 pm
Just another incentive for doctors to get out of the profession Doctors who accept speaking fees, five-star meals and other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies will soon see their names -– and the value of the gifts they accept -– revealed on the Web, under a new federal law that follows several states […]
April 25, 2010 – 9:22 am
It’s simply amazing that a piece of legislation that was unread by the people who voted for it, and is over 2,400 pages, should cause confusion. I mean, seriously, “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means […]
April 19, 2010 – 12:08 pm
A taste of things to come A WOMAN has been denied an operation on the NHS after paying for a private consultation to deal with her severe back pain. Jenny Whitehead, a breast cancer survivor, paid £250 for an appointment with the orthopaedic surgeon after being told she would have to wait five months to […]
April 18, 2010 – 8:46 am
Apparently, the Times is interested in dropping a few bombshells this weekend. First you have the “Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran’s Nuclear Drive,” which others have covered, and then there is this, which basically says that the provisions of ObamaCare are doomed to failure When her small executive search firm in New […]
April 16, 2010 – 8:37 am
Happy Friday! I bet you never knew this about Dear Leader, vis a vis space exploration “The bottom line is, nobody is more committed to manned spaceflight, to human exploration of space than I am,†he said in a speech to about 200 attendees of a White House-sponsored space conference here. There’s probably a joke […]
