Plugging the Hole of Healthcare

February 27, 2010 in Economy & Business, Healthcare, Montana

By CFS I was invited to contribute here by jhwygirl on transportation, land use issues, and such.  Since that has gone so swimmingly for me so far (my own mistake in making in-the-moment, emotional comments that didn’t sit well with many people).  So now I’ll change gears and throw my hat into the healthcare debate [...]

The Indy: Montana Health Insurance Costs Soar

February 27, 2010 in Denny Rehberg, Economy & Business, health insurance weasels, Healthcare, Jon Tester, Max Baucus, Media, Montana

by jhwygirl I wrote here just the other day of what many view as the galling move by WellPoint to increase health insurance rates of 34 million people across 8 states. That increase will help increase profits by an estimated 7% for this year. This, from a company that made $4.7 billion in profit off [...]

“We Must Exercise the Right to Speak Back…”

February 27, 2010 in Corporatism

by JC Tonight on MTPR, there was a great commentary by Brian Muldoon on the Citizen’s United case. Here is the clip: “A corporation obviously is nothing at all like a human being. There is no social benefit to granting it the unrestricted right to speak on behalf of its agenda. Human beings benefit from [...]