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 […]
April 13, 2010 – 9:30 am
Oh, wait, excuse, did I say “Insurance Company?” Sorry, my bad, should probably have more coffee A Hollywood woman who was dropped from Medicaid coverage while needing a bone marrow transplant is finally getting the coverage and treatment she needs to stay alive. Diana Smith is battling a rare form of Leukemia and needs the transplant […]
April 13, 2010 – 7:58 am
The New York Times (I will no longer refer to them as the F*sh Wrap, as that brings massive trackback spam) publishes a story that should have been in the humor section, rather than page A13 of the NY Edition: Baffled by Health Plan? So Are Some Lawmakers It is often said that the new […]
April 8, 2010 – 10:00 am
Hmmmm. This super duper wonderful going to fix all the ills of the USA health care legislation has Democrats out and about, happy as clams, talking up their massively awesome legislation. No? First-term Rep. Betsy Markey is convinced that once people learn what’s in President Barack Obama’s new health care overhaul law, they’ll support it. […]
April 4, 2010 – 2:12 pm
Now, this couldn’t possibly happen with ObamaCare, right? RIGHT? Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs for other people […]
