When one of the biggest HMO’s is fined, for the second time in one year, and remember, we’re only 7 months into the current year, we can say that market-driven medicine is not working.
Kaiser Permanente will be assessed a record fine today for its haphazard investigations of questionable care, physician performance and patient complaints at [...]
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Sub-Par Health Care
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It’s Friday, 4:53 EST: Gonzales Resignation Watch
Posted in Bush Administration on July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Will Abu Gonzales announce his resignation this evening?
Update: So far Abu Gonzales has resisted resigning. As we know teflon deteriorates, literally and figuratively.
As Gonzales did not resign tonight, when do you think he will resign?
Consumer Safety an Oxymoron
Posted in Activism, Government on July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The idea of “consumer safety” may soon be a real oxymoron, you know, like Army intelligence, because the agency responsible for consumer safety may no longer be around to do it’s job.
he Consumer Product Safety Commission could soon shrink to the point where it can’t effectively protect the public, veteran Commissioner Thomas Moore says.
Many employees [...]
Just Frustrated?!?
Posted in Bush Administration, Media and Aggregators, Military & War on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes headlines just want to make you bang your head against a brick wall, like today’s NY Times, “U.S. Officials Voice Frustrations With Saudis’ Role in Iraq.”
Voice frustrations????? 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. The majority of “insurgents” in Iraq are coming from Saudi Arabia, and do you want to know what [...]
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