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RT @cidelson: On medical bankruptcies, wish I had their confidence current bills will fix this problem, http://bit.ly/7B5pok #healthreform 11/25/2009 |
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No way to spin these data: medical bankruptcy grows http://bit.ly/7B5pok 11/25/2009 |
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NY Times on medical bankruptcies, wish I had their confidence current bills will fix this problem, http://bit.ly/7B5pok #healthreform 11/25/2009 |
The Morning Wrap
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times —
Whose Church?: A schism over doctrine in the Episcopal Church has triggered some ugly legal battles over assets, The Wall Street Journal reports. In civil courts nationwide, breakaway parishes are fighting local dioceses and the national church for property, including financial accounts and endowments. Health-care and Bankruptcy: The New York Times reports that the share of personal bankruptcies caused by illness is growing , according to bankruptcy lawyers and court officials. "This has really become the insurance system for the country," one trustee said. Lawyer Charged with Hiring Hitman: A New Jersey defense lawyer, who is a former federal ...
Adding insult to injury
Political Animal —
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.... Most modern democracies would never let their own citizens go bankrupt because they got sick. The phrase "medical bankruptcies" is outlandish concept in most of the industrialized world. There's simply no reason for the United States to tolerate this . Some of the debtors sitting forlornly in [Nashville's] old stone bankruptcy court have lost a job or gotten divorced. Others have been summoned to face their creditors because they spent mindlessly beyond their means. But all too often these days, they are there merely because they, or their children, ...
Approaching the Problem From the Wrong Angle
Greg's Opinion —
» NYT: From the Hospital to Bankruptcy Court
An interesting sidenote of the health care debate ... ...
Happy Thanksgiving
Blake's Think Tank —
... scored me an invite to Thanksgiving lunch at the in-laws) and everything that comes with it. I’m not sure how this is going to go, but I’ll give it my best effort.
Here’s a Thanksgiving to do:
Eat this. Read this. Drink this and this and a little of this. Watch this. Nap in front of this. Don’t do this. Get two helpings of this. Be happy for this. Be sad for this and this. Cheer for this. Consider the ramifications of this. Listen to this. Go ...
Bankruptcies Up 34 Percent Over Fiscal ‘08; Lawyers Observe Health Care Cost Impact
ABA Journal Top Stories —
The number of federal bankruptcy cases is up more than 34 percent for the 12 months ending Sept. 30 -- the end of the federal judiciary's fiscal year -- than it was for the prior 12 months, according to statistics released today. Business filings are up 52 percent over 2008 (58,271 from 38,651) while nonbusiness filings are 34 percent higher (1,344,095 from 1,004,342), according to an Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts news release ...
The lethal cynicism of Joe Lieberman
Attytood —
[image] I started to write a longer post about Sen. Joe Lieberman's move today to kill the more progressive parts of the healthcare bill today...but frankly I couldn't stomach devoting that much of my limited time on earth to him at this point. Let me just say this: I've been paying attention to politics on some level since I was nine years old and watched the cops beating up the hippies at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and over the course of 41 years I have never seen a move so cynical and so spiteful, at the expense of the health and well-being of millions of Americans, as Lieberman's backflips to kill any provision that is supported by liberals, even if it's ...
