What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, It’s Never Too Late for the Lobbyists to Win)
Surprise billing is proving awfully hard to kill.
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The Public’s Right to Know: HA! How Courts and Federal Agencies Stonewall on Citizen Access to Government Information
Summary of some ways the US government de facto restricts access to public information.
Read more...Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff Asks to Be Released From Prison Under “Compassionate Release,” Igniting Debate Over Fairness
Pondering Madoff’s petition to be freed and the general question of compassionate release programs.
Read more...Brexit: Warmed Over Chicken
Brexit trade talks are about to begin. The UK is back in drama queen mode.
Read more...Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.
Read more...#MeToo Shamefully Nowhere To Be Found as SEIU Not Only Refuses to Fire Staffers Charged With Multiple Instances of Sexual Misconduct, but Retaliates Against Press and Whistleblowers
SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.
Read more...The Truth & the Irony: Consortium News and The Continuing Tale of Chrystia Freeland’s Grandfather and His and Her Nazi Scheme for Ukraine Today
Consortium News is suing Canada’s NSA for depicting the publisher as part of a Russian cyber-campaign for exposing then Foreign Minsister Chrystia Freeland lying over her history. But has CN undermined its case?
Read more...WSJ Reports: State AGs to Cooperate with Feds to Take on Google?
State AGs to meet with DoJ to discuss cooperating in their respective probes into alleged anti-competitive behavior by Google. Will enforcement actions follow? Time will tell.
Read more...Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast
TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.
Read more...Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon
India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.
Read more...Sex Workers Can Tell You Why Sex Work Is Work – Speak to Them
Combatting mispercptions about sex work, paritcularly the need for better work condiions.
Read more...SEC With Investment Managers: “Like the FBI Sitting Down With the Mafia”
A law firm partner discusses SEC capture as if it were perfectly normal….which sadly, it is.
Read more...Trump’s China Trade Deal Handwave
There’s not much to like in the Trump “Phase 1” China trade deal because there’s not much to it.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Senate Passes Save Our Seas Act 2.0
Senate pauses Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, which fails to address the issue of overproduction of plastics.
Read more...Brexit: The End of the Beginning?
Brexit jockeying is underway.
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