March 20, 2010
The decision left Ms. Pelosi one fewer option available to get to 216 votes by Sunday, when a vote on the package is expected. ...
The House bill seeks to create a government-run health insurance plan—also known as the public option—that would allow people who are uninsured to obtain ...
Healthcare-reform countdown: the progressive purists' moment of truth. - Toronto Star Blogs (blog)
March 19, 2010
- An anonymous reader writes "Big Banking Firms Barclay's Capital, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch successfully obtained an injunction against theflyonthewall.com, Inc., preventing them from immediately publishing the firms' stock upgrades and downgrades. This case could have far reaching consequences concerning internet communication and publication of news." Here's some interesting analysis from Paul Levy, via Dave Farber's Interesting People list.
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“I'm going to vote for healthcare reform,” she said. “I know this is not a perfect bill. But in the scheme of things, it provides the best options and the ...
30 percent said they would leave practice early if Obama's health care overhaul passed without a public option – such as the legislation passed by the ...
OH MY…NEARLY HALF OF THE NATION'S DOCTORS MAY QUIT IF OBAMACARE IS PASSED - The Cypress TimesThe fact that poll after poll shows a majority of people do not want Obama's health care bill and yet the democrats seem to feel they know better than the ...
- pcause writes "Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to grow fast and sell for a lot of money. It also seems clear that Google knew the site contained pirated content and bought it and continued the pirating."
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For several years von Hagens and his team experimented using smaller squid, and found that the fragility of the skin needed a slower replacement process than other animal specimens.
Some 1500 litres of silicone later, the plastination of the giant cephalopods was completed in January.
...- bdcrazy writes "A man was recently awarded $1.5M in a jury trial after his hand was injured by a Ryobi table saw. The saw did not include the patented 'Saw Stop' technology that the plaintiff argued would have prevented all the problems." 60 similar cases have now been filed nationwide. TechDirt makes the argument that this jury decision is completely crazy: "If the government is going to require companies to use a patented technology, it seems that the only reasonable solution is to remove the...
Costs for self-employed business people are outrageous with little options available to us." "Yes, we need health care reform but the massive plan they are ...
Letter: There are many reasons for public to reject health-care proposal - TCPalm