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If it’s not doctors ripping off Medicare it’s disability insurers jacking up Social Security’s overhead in the name of increasing their profits.
According to the New York Times, “The Social Security system is choking on paperwork and spending millions of dollars a year screening dubious applications for disability benefits, […]
Paraphrasing David Hannum (not PT Barnum) there’s a fool born every minute and recent happenings seem to bear that out—only most of the current fools have MBA’s and high level jobs.
And then there are the fools in Washington who for years have told us to trust industry and that self-regulation works to our advantage.
And all […]
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Kelly over at Tax Girl offers up an interesting stat—it’s costing at least $200 million to publicize and send that exciting, overwhelming, unbelievable, solution-to-the-recession “economic stimulus” check y’all are waiting for with baited breath.
As Kelly points out, “Putting it into perspective, that $200 million would have bought 74 Super […]
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(Part of an ongoing series)
Those Americans fortunate enough to have medical insurance have long known (if they gave it any thought) that their sensitive medical records are frequently sent overseas for processing right along with most other forms of insurance processing.
Now their bodies are following—paid for by their […]
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Although the stats are Canadian, I doubt that they’re significantly different in the US or other countries.
The results of Waterstone Human Capital’s annual corporate culture study give an interesting insight on senior executive thinking when it comes to corporate culture.
“This year, a whopping 95% of executives […]
Good grief, will the guys ever learn to keep their pants zipped?
Eliot Sptizer is just the latest in a long line political and business biggies to be ousted over sex actions of one kind or another.
I’m also wondering how many other patrons of this current sting will be outed. If he’s the only name made […]
Healthcare providers’ attitudes towards money often make my blood boil. It’s not just insurance and drug companies and hospitals, but the financial institutions that buy the debt of the un/under insured and then charge exorbitant interest rates on it.
Of course, it’s all excused in the name of capitalism and keeping investors happy, while their advertising […]
If you haven’t heard it already, here’s a story guaranteed to make you think at least twice before opting for any kind of avoidable surgery or hospital stay.
“…hospital-acquired infections that kill nearly 100,000 people in the U.S. each year, according to federal estimates.”
That’s a very large number, especially when the top culprits are, “Doctors, nurses […]
I don’t follow Canadian business, but I came across a hilarious commentary by columnist Barry Critchley in the National Post on Canada.com.
He starts by informing you that “Bank of Montreal [Canada’s oldest bank dating to 1817] announced a series of management changes in its capital-markets operation this week,” explaining that all of the executive changes […]
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