Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Medicare Fee Ordeal – Continued As of Friday the Senate has passed a six (6) month patch to counter the Sustained Growth Rate formula cuts directed at most physicians. The average for all physicians was a 21% cut, with changes ranging from primary care (+6%) to cardiology (-42%). The House will […]
by Rusty Rustbelt PEANUT BUTTER REGULATIONS Watching people spread peanut butter is interesting. I am a semi-neurotic peanut butter spreader, I try to cover most of the bread and try to get the thickness close to even, but I am not a perfectionist-neurotic spreader. There are also slap-and-eat messy spreaders. Having dealt with a wide […]
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by Beverly Mannoriginally posted at The Annarborist A Blueprint for Avoiding the Younger v. Harris ‘Doctrine’ In Some Cases The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit last month enjoined a Pennsylvania county prosecutor’s office from indicting teenage girls who had sued in federal court because their county’s prosecutor was threatening “sexting” indictments unless […]
Robert Reich asks and answers the question “Which do you trust less – Big Business (including Wall Street) or Big Government?”: But fundamentally, the debate is absurd. It’s not the purpose of the private sector to protect the public. Companies like Goldman Sachs, Massey Energy, WellPoint, and BP will do everything they can to make […]
Jon Walker at FDL begins a chat on politics and agendas. The big picture is built on thousands of pixels…so is national politics apparently if your advertizing budget is small. The elected officials in the cooperatives formed a large pool of potential recruits to run for political office and to be elected to positions within […]
Firedoglake takes on Simpson: Alan Simpson: Cutting Social Security Benefits to “Take Care of the Lesser People in Society” …cuts he would recommend to the President and Congress on CNBC, Simpson said “We are going to stick to the big three,” meaning Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. His sentiments haven’t changed. (Rdan here…the transcript reads […]
Did others notice that year-to-date inflation, as measured by the CPI, is zero?
“Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan.” Unless you’re a chubby chaser, it’s not an image that one immediately thinks of as licentious. After a few days, Apple is at least considering this. (The headline appears to jump the gun.) Yes, it’s that time of the year again.