This year someone is stealing $6,500 from your family. It's a perfect crime because you don't even realize it. Before you get your paycheck, they take the money out of it and give it to insurance companies and hospitals and … [Read more...]
Kennedy/Baucus Plan…. A Debaucle!
It seems to me that the champion of the working family in the Senate should be working to cut out the middle men and helping to save poor and working class people money instead of helping to line the pockets of the shareholders and … [Read more...]
Gentry is alive and well and AIG is the poster child
I have slammed AIG and the government more specifically Tim Geitner for continuing this class warfare as I see it, the lack of understanding by them and these executives who just because of where they are and where they came from assures … [Read more...]
Auto Insurance Reform
Hi all: After being concerned about how the new insurance regulations would effect the poor earlier in the year, it turned out that I was the one who was being made poorer through the old system. I received a renewal notice from Commerce … [Read more...]
Everybody knows
Hi All: This week on Fox 25, A.G. Martha Coakley was speaking about the new auto insurance rating system that will go into effect on 4/1/2008. Its' main system to rate drivers in the Commonwealth will be based on a credit score. What … [Read more...]
COMMENTARY: Grading the candidates: the MA-05 debate part three: Entitlement programs
Braude="Alan Greenspan, former head of the Fed, wrote his book in the tub, he says. And that one of the main points he made, is that Medicare, in the age of the babyboomers, is the real budget buster, saying we'll have to cut big time … [Read more...]
Insurance Reform: Look Who’s Talking
The Globe has a story about "lawmakers skeptical about insurance reform." Let's look at who is quoted as being opposed to insurance reform:Senator Dianne Wilkerson: Her constituents are subsidized by the rest of the state. Virtually any … [Read more...]
Adverse Selection by Massachusetts Health Insurance Companies
Following the forum, Mr. Wingle assured me that Health Connector Board has some of the finest and toughest lawyers in the state and would not back down on the data reporting requirments that the insurance companies should be fulfilling. … [Read more...]
Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt In Support Of Increasing The Minimum Wage
By increasing the federal minimum wage by $2.10 - from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over two years - we are giving a long overdue pay raise to about 13 million Americans, which amounts to an additional $4,400 per year for a family of three. … [Read more...]
Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt In Support Of Increasing The Minimum Wage
President Franklin Roosevelt told us, "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." The federal minimum wage has remained … [Read more...]