Healthcare
“People won’t sign up voluntarily”
Senator Calderon's response in the Whittier Daily News to our request.
Mar 18, 2008Consumer Watchdog
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Energy
High Price of Gas Rooted in Low Dollar
ECONOMY IN CRISIS - Institutions put their funds in oil - Safer than greenbacks or stocks For once, you can't blame high…
Mar 18, 2008
Healthcare
You can be like Britney!
Like other top hospitals in LA, UCLA Medical Center has heavy physical security to keep the papparazi and other riff-raff away from…
Mar 17, 2008
Privacy
Special interests pay $3K for face time with CA politicians
Sometimes I have to shake my head in amazement at the audacity of things that politicians do. No, not good old Client…
Mar 17, 2008Californians Say Aloha (in the Bye-Bye Sense) to Their Savings — State Gasoline Price Tops Hawaii
California's Record Pump Price is $3.634, Usual Leader Hawaii Drops to $3.62 -- Group Praises Hawaii Effort to Expose Profits Santa Monica,…
Mar 17, 2008Consumers’ Suit Against AT&T for Abuses in Wake of Merger With Cingular Should Go Forward, Federal Court Told
AT&T's Ban on Class Actions is Unlawful, Customers Argue Santa Monica, CA -- Cell phone customers who sued AT&T and Cingular over…
Mar 17, 2008
Healthcare
Doctor discipline board too slow
The state board charged with protecting Californians from bad doctors is doing too little, too late. Complaints about physician mistakes and misconduct…
Mar 17, 2008
Healthcare
Bill Aims to Open Medical Records
Information from pharmacies could go to drug firms Pharmaceutical companies could gain access to medical records to send reminders to patients to…
Mar 16, 2008
Privacy
Stem cell agency tone-deaf on salaries
Even though California faces a budget crisis and the state appears to be sputtering into a recession with home mortgage foreclosures at…
Mar 14, 2008
Insurance
Health Care Quake Looms for 2010 Ballot
When a Senate committee killed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ambitious health care proposal, it was the culmination of months of debate, hearings and…
Mar 14, 2008
Privacy
Pay Hikes for Stem Cell Agency Leaders Draw Heat
Future officials at California's fledgling stem cell research agency got a hefty raise this week. The board of the California Institute for…
Mar 14, 2008Settlement of Lawsuits With Auto Club Affiliate Announced
Santa Monica, CA -- The insurance affiliate of the Automobile Club of Southern California (the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club) will…
Mar 14, 2008
Insurance
AAA to Issue Refunds to Settle Suit Over New Policy Surcharges
Refunds averaging $187 are in store for 120,000 policyholders of the Automobile Club of Southern California who were charged higher rates on…
Mar 14, 2008
Privacy
Do you know your Google score?
I was blown away by a conversation I had with a Silicon Valley insider who told me the technologists at Google were…
Mar 13, 2008
Insurance
Lawyers for Farmers Insurance defend overcharges in the Court of Appeal
I spent the morning down at the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles listening to lawyers for Farmers Insurance try to convince…
Mar 13, 2008
In The News
Madison Wins International Stem Cell Summit
City Beats New York, D.C. -- Scientists, Investors To Attend MADISON, WI -- Wisconsin's capital city will host an international stem cell…
Mar 13, 2008
Privacy
California Stem Cell Agency Raises Execs’ Top Pay Levels 23 Percent
California's stem cell research agency on Wednesday raised top pay levels for its executives and lead lawyers 23 percent and then, less…
Mar 13, 2008
Privacy
Stem Cell Institute Names Its Chief Scientific Officer
Physician has advised board on grants Marie Csete, an Emory University physician and researcher who specializes in transplant anesthesiology as well as…
Mar 13, 2008