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Judge whacks little people, rewards managers at Tribune
What's up with our legal system? A bankruptcy judge just told the bankrupt Tribune Co. it could go ahead and pay $13…
May 12, 2009Judy Dugan
Articles by Judy Dugan
Insurance
DC Dispatch: Congress health reform plan tilts to insurers
A Senate health care reform "policy options" document released last night gives us a good idea where national reform plans will go,…
May 12, 2009
Healthcare
Medical/Insurance complex gets a big hug
My brain is sprained from trying to figure out the big White House meeting today between medical/insurance industry execs and President Obama.…
May 11, 2009
Energy
Insurers are poison, says GOP deceiver-in-chief
It's not a household name, but Frank Luntz is the brilliant deceiver of the GOP who in 2002 taught the Bush Administration…
May 8, 2009
Insurance
Health insurers’ insider power play in California
The shameful way a legislative committee vote went down in California yesterday tears the veil off how health insurance companies and HMOs…
Apr 29, 2009
Energy
Costco Settles ‘Fair Fuel’ Lawsuit
NEW YORK, NY -- Costco last week agreed to settle a lawsuit over the sale of hot gasoline -- gasoline above 60…
Apr 27, 2009
Healthcare
Insurers’ mouthpiece in the Senate
I watched today's Senate "Roundtable Discussion" (video link) on reforming health care delivery to learn from the propsals of the committee and…
Apr 21, 2009
Privacy
Banks as entitled, spoiled brats
I read the news today, oh boy. Start with Goldman Sachs' first quarter profit of $1.8 billion, about twice what "analysts" thought…
Apr 13, 2009
Healthcare
Is Washington even listening on health reform?
The lead editorial in the New York Times today neatly sums up what health non-profits, informed patients and consumer advocates are seeking…
Apr 7, 2009
Healthcare
What Obama can learn from Arnold
Monday Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose own attempts at statewide health care reform failed last year, hosts a White House summit in L.A.…
Apr 3, 2009
Healthcare
What “rationing” really means
The early messengers of health-care doom and socialism aren't looking so good. Start with Rick Scott, the disgraced former head of fraud-ridden…
Apr 3, 2009
Insurance
The insurance companies’ definition of ‘competition’
Insurance companies love their free market, and corporations in general love the idea of competing against government, i.e. outsourcing government services to…
Mar 31, 2009
Insurance
Hellfire, pitchforks and credit card caps
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, introducing a bill last week to cap credit card interest rates at 15%, quotes Dante and the…
Mar 31, 2009
Insurance
Stuck in a privatized time warp
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top GOP politician in the health care reform debate, is positive that Americans don't need an option to…
Mar 19, 2009
Insurance
Insurance companies are “partners” in wolves’ clothing
The debate over health care reform too often comes down to a shorthand of insuring the uninsured. But having an insurance policy…
Mar 6, 2009
Reports
Cleaner & Cheaper:A Handbook of Transportation and Related Energy Choices 2009 and Beyond
TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................3. GRADING THE OPTIONS ..............................................................3. ENERGY MARKET OVERSIGHT AND REGULATION ................................3..…
Mar 3, 2009
Healthcare
Make Medicare ‘as big as Americans want it to be’
Health care reform is fantastically messy. No matter how bad and cruel the current U.S. system, it won't be tossed out for…
Jan 26, 2009
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Arnold’s unraveling state
California is such a mess that that the state's webcast cut off (on my L.A. computer, anyway) halfway through Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's…
Jan 15, 2009