Drug Money by David Donnelly The pharmaceutical corporations, HMOs and insurance companies got what they paid for in the Medicare bill. And then some. ...
Pension Funds Move From Red Ink to Black By DIMITRA DEFOTIS FOR THE LAST two years, investors have feared that corporate pension obligations will gouge some...
Accounting Board Wants Options to Be Reported as an Expense By FLOYD NORRIS The Financial Accounting Standards Board's proposal to require companies to report...
NY Times April 1, 2004 Proving Age Discrimination The Age Discrimination in Employment Act was intended to protect older workers from bias. Federal courts,...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/167448_medicare02.html ... A senior White House official and the former Medicare administrator, central figures in a...
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~28~2056759,00.html ... The real payoff began when Bush senior left office and began working for the Carlyle Group,...
Sorry--out for an operation. Everything ok, but will be recovering for a few more weeks. In the meantime, do everything you can to have regime change. I am ...
Tnanks a lot. I'm home and do have access to my laptop, so I will be working on some articles for the press, and to help the good guys in a war that in the...
Inquiry into Medicare bill is quashed 4/3/2004 A senior White House official and the former Medicare administrator, central figures in a controversy over the...
Richard S. Foster, Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, will be a speaker at the American Academy of Actuaries' Spring Meeting luncheon on...
Questions of Interest By PAUL KRUGMAN U.S. families and businesses will be in big trouble if normal conditions in the bond market resume and interest rates go...
The Orwellian Olsens By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON It's their reality. We just live and die in it. In Bushworld, our troops go to war and get killed, but you...
Cheney v. U.S. District Court Employee Advocate – www.DukeEmployees.com – April 26, 2004 Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear Cheney v. U.S. District...
moneybox Capitalists for Hillarycare Look who's supporting universal health care now. By Daniel Gross Posted Friday, April 16, 2004, at 1:21 PM PT The American...
Both were delivered by Jay Leno and, to avoid partisanship claims, I'll list one for each: (Dem) If Kerrey is elected President, he may be the first person in ...
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/ 0,,SB108363156752601022-IFjfINglaF3mpusaHuGbamHm4,00.html ... President Bush first proposed a richer Medicare-drug benefit...
Some Cities Struggling to Keep Pension Promises By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH Many cities that offered their workers large retirement pensions find that their pension...
I will be going to an Academy of Actuaries meeting 5-6 and 5-7 in Washington. My fav subjects--SS, Medicare and medical care, retiree medical systems and...
OP-ED COLUMNIST Restoring Our Honor By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Without an overhaul of its Iraq policy, this administration is courting a total disaster for us all. ...
Bush Proposes a Plan to Aid Opponents of Castro in Cuba By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS President Bush announced a plan to increase dramatically the money for Cuban...
U.S. Rules Morning-After Pill Can't Be Sold Over the Counter By GARDINER HARRIS Drug regulators were concerned about whether young girls would be able to use a...
Florida Judge Authorizes Removal of Feeding Tube By ABBY GOODNOUGH A Florida judge has ruled unconstitutional a law that empowered the governor to prolong the...
A Giddy Heartland Gives Bush Warmth Missing in the Beltway By JIM RUTENBERG President Bush's stops in the Midwest, part of his three-day bus tour, have scored...
Growth of Jobs Reinforces Hopes of Sustained Turnaround By LOUIS UCHITELLE The nation's employers added hundreds of thousands of jobs for the second month in a...
Hey, I have it---bring back Halliburton from Iraq to provide the security. May 8, 2004 POLITICAL MEMO A Collision of Security, Democracy and Daily Life By...
__Vonnegut Denounces Bush's War Crimes "Nobody needs to tell Kurt Vonnegut to stop beating around the Bush. 'They're adroit criminals,' the 81-year-old...
__What Colin Powell's Circle REALLY Thinks About the Bush Regime There are some choice statements made by Powell's aides on the Bush Regime in a recent GQ...