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Do you mean 25.8 million, not billion, in the headline? The multi-billion dollar PR deal had me aghast there.
MILLION, not BILLION
one tenth of one percent as many dollars are involved as the title claims
Hire a copy editor. I'm cheap.
..million in piece.
Dear Mr. Potter,
As the new legislation moves from framework to execution, ongoing creative ideas to increase access to healthcare and better service are essential.
Since you know the insurance industry intimately, are well-connected and are passionate about this issue I want to plant the seeds of an idea past you and your community.
Many of the problems with the system stem from the fact that insurance companies have a remit to be profitable and increase shareholder value. I don't begrudge them this because they never said they were charities. However, lacking a public option for competetion why not form a member-based, non-profit insurance company? It's mission would be different - providing healthcare insurance for anybody who joins and timely payment to the providers. At the end of the year any profits, less a small development or rainy day fund, would be refunded to its members.
How? Assemble the right cast of characters to takeover a current for-profit insurance company, one that is undervalued and fledgling, in a private equity sort of deal.
Is it feasible? I'd run with it if I came from the industry myself. Think member-based business league (501c6) not charity.
J
Here is his page on SourceWatch:
[[Ned Beecher]]
He works for the sewage sludge industry.
Sounds like the author of this report don't have a clue to the actual happenings. For and organization that represents itself as a news source, one would expect more than the regurgitation of sound bites. Do you even care about the truth or are you just interested in bashing others?
Yes, that's how PR people would like us to think about journalism, until we no longer know the difference. If a reviewer flat-out calls a play a turkey, how many more invitations will he get from that PR person?
So you admit that corporate clients deal in bathwater?
"News is what powerful people want to suppress. Everything else is advertising."
I
The MEK (MKO, Mujaheddin, etc.) is a terrorist cult. They sided with Saddam and killed their own people. They will never be accepted by Iranians.
I find this story somewhat misleading. An article on a new baby animal born at the local zoo is probably PR driven. A review of a new musical is most likely "driven by public relations" because the reviewer was probably invited by a PR person. Is that "spin?"
It should not be as a surprise that many news stories originate with a press release. Not all journalism is investigative. Press releases are a way for journalists to hear about things that aren't already public knowledge. Ideally the PR person sends a press release when the client has done something new or noteworthy. If the journalist agrees, a story might result. It can be a fairly straightforward process, lacking in spin.
Lastly, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Not all PR people represent corporate clients. Some represent nonprofits, authors, artists, documentary films, stray dog rescue groups, clothing drives for the homeless, etc. PR is good bang for the buck, and cash-strapped organizations often depend on PR to carry their message to their communities.
Ms. Richardson presents one perspective on biosolids use, and it is a minority view. Her coverage of the White House Garden issue last year is incomplete and misleading; go to http://www.nebiosolids.org and scroll down the page for more complete information.
The preponderance of thousands of scientific research papers and decades of experience find biosolids use on soils in accordance with regulations to be protective of public health and the environment. That is the finding of the National Academy of Sciences. That is the policy of U. S. EPA, USDA, and FDA - and has been for decades under all administrations. Every state environmental agency accepts biosolids recycling to soil.
Biosolids recycling is not a new or unusual practice. It is a critical part of managing sewage sludge, which is a necessary by-product of keeping surface and groundwater clean.
While treated sewage sludge - biosolids - cannot be used in certified organic production in accordance with USDA standards, its use in conventional agriculture, in silviculture, and for land reclamation is as safe as other conventional agricultural practices - and it is far more regulated than the uses of animal manure (which present similar risks that must be managed), of which 25 times as much is applied to land in the U. S.
Learn more about biosolids recycling - an important environmental program – at http://www.nebiosolids.org.
Inspite of the warnings and the labels, the fact remains that it is junk food and that people eating it could be on their way to being obese.
Firms need to be held to account for their actions and inactions their stakeholders (employees, customers, communities, NGOs and shareholders).
Yet most corporations have neither the governance structure nor the systems to handle these conflicting demands.
The IMD OWP 2010 addresses these challenges.
It makes me sick to my stomach to know people will do anything to get someone out of the way. I couln't live with that guilt. it is a shame and just plain wrong. Can anyone make it right? I refuse to lose my faith.
i am not very surprise if you try to analyze the eacg decision of Bush and its consequences you will find that he was working for some lobby
Bottled water and diamonds. Two of the biggest scams of the 20th century.
It looks like the various dept's of insurance have a herculean task of trying to figure out what this bill means and how to enforce it. Hopefully it will all make more sense soon.
I believe the legal term is "entrapment."
Great article!
Regarding the Fed's reason for extreme secrecy: Another theory that is gaining steam is that the Fed's decisions of whose assets to buy and at what inflated price were dictated by various politicians, and the Fed wants to conceal from the press and the public the extent to which it is a political tool.
As a practicing hypnotherapist, I am admittedly a little biased!
However, when you look at the track record of results by drugs for stopping smoking, it is little better than the results of willpower alone.....
Smokers wishing to quit should see a professionally qualified hypnotherapist, preferrably one who incorporates NLP into their work.
Hope this helps!
Steve
I work at an internet company which provides services that criminals try to use to promote human trafficking, sell child porn, and other acts which hurt innocent people. We have entire teams dedicated to search for this activity and we report incidents to the government. If we didn't more people could get hurt.
I'm also a member of an online French Horn discussion group. The moderator works only part time. We had a “teen” start posting sexual innuendos and asking for personal “lessons” from some adult. The moderator worked hard to purge the comments and block this teen's Id only to have the "teen" open a new id and go back to the same behavior. The group was at risk of being shut down by the service provider due to this activity. In desperation the moderator went to the Attorney General's office to track down this “teen.” It turned out this “Teen” was a cop trying to entice people into breaking the law.
There is nothing wrong with a cop using a phony persona to monitor a group where some suspicious activities have been reported. What's wrong is for the cop to try to entice people into illegal activities. Even when the group lacks people susceptible to the enticement, the activity and rumors harms the reputation of the entire group and could deter people from participating in it.
this is a very good initiative i really apperciate that keep up your good work
i agree with your views about role of here in BATA but if you analyze the whole situation of the world you will notice that every corrupt person is very prominant in media and every good person is facing problems and discoureged everywhere
We the citizens have no power because of idiots like you handing it over to the politicians in the first place. It's not the "Big Corporations" deceptively handing out toxic sludge as organic compost, it's the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, A.K.A. an extension of the GOVERNMENT...
Dear Mr. Potter,
Your combination of ethics and knowledge of the insurance industry is exactly what is needed in today's times. Please keep up the good work!
This war was one of the biggest mistakes of America, and it's still paying the price without seeing any end to this chaos.
Are you a whale? Whales are just the same as any other mammal, humans included. If you're going to come out with provocative lines such as the above, I hope that you are an evangelical vegan.