Brief recital of the costs and efforts of hospitals getting reimbursed by commercial healthcare insurance. It appears to be worsening. And the efforts to collect are costly. A Survey of Healthcare Insurance Practices Survey Methodology – 304 respondents, representing 772 hospitals, completed the survey. Not every respondent answered each question. All respondents are members of the American Hospital Association.– Web-survey...
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Michigan Activist John Sinclair Dies at 82
by Christina Clark Iconic Detroit writer and activist John Sinclair died on Tuesday morning at the age of 82 after spending two weeks at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital for declining health. His cause of death was congestive heart failure, his publicist told the Detroit News. An advocate for his art, Sinclair served as the manager for MC5, a rock band from Lincoln Park, between 1966 and 1969, and was well-known for his support of the Civil...
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Like Gordon Gekko said, the most valuable commodity there is, is information.
Read More »February JOLTS report: soft landing-ish? – except for a noisy jump in layoffs
– by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog The JOLTS report for February showed stabilization or slight improvement to all but one of its components, generally suggesting, well, stabilization in the overall jobs market. Starting with the monthly changes, job openings (blue in the graph below), a soft statistic that is polluted by imaginary, permanent, and trolling listings, increased 8,000 from a sharply downwardly revised January number to...
Read More »Some Commentary on the Most Recent Events
Not 100 percent here. You will have to travel to the rest of the story to get the complete version of the Summary and My Take by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Official Newsletter on recent events. It is interesting and there is enough here to draw a conclusion. 1 When night came, the white waves rolled back and forth in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on the shore. And they felt that they could then...
Read More »Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva — Scott Ferguson and William Saas interview Pavlina Tcherneva
Podcast and transcript.Money on the Left — MR OnlineEconomic Democracy with Pavlina TchernevaScott Ferguson and William Saas interview Pavlina Tcherneva
Read More »Uncovering the Roaring Twenties Bubbles
Uncovering the Roaring Twenties Bubbles
Read More »Student Debt Abolishment: A Game-Changer
Student Debt Abolishment: A Game-Changer
Read More »The Results of Bad Evolution
Happy Easter, or happy whatever way you celebrate the coming of spring. Yesterday the good Christian Tim Walberg, who has ineffectually represented a chunk of southern Michigan in Congress since 2010, apparently called for us to use nuclear weapons in Gaza to “get it over quick.” He was, of course, once a Bible salesman. Jack Lessenberry Tags: Evolution...
Read More »END THE TAX ON Social Security. A Good Idea?
by Dale Coberly No. It’s not. Here is why. The argument for ending the tax on Social Security benefits seems to be that “it is a tax on a tax”, double taxing, and not fair. Even the good guys believe this. But they are wrong. Consider, You pay income taxes on your ordinary income. Then you may take your after tax income and put some of it in a savings account which earns interest. Then you pay income tax on the interest you earn. ...
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