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Of course, I could be totally wrong here. The problem with the multiple bills (and Lord knows what the Senate could end up coming with) is that I don’t know. I can only hope.

I have seen my company’s health insurance premiums drastically increased since I’ve been here in Feb 08 (from $44 a person a month to $130 a person per month, w/ $425-550 a month for a married couple now) and a few of my co-workers increasingly going without it b/c they cannot afford it any longer w/ other necessities taking precedence.

Now, granted, I no longer have health insurance as of this week since its my last week here, so I’m now without it as well, unless I want to sign up for the Swiss Cheese plan my school offers for $400-500 a semester that covers almost nothing and has excessively high co-pays and deductibles.

Amid joy over the purported death of the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Nicholas Schmidle makes an interesting point about what comes next..

“Now the hard part begins. Since the CIA has demonstrated its ability to pinpoint “high-level targets,” it will want to go after other top Taliban leaders in Pakistan, such as Maulvi Nazir in South Waziristan and Jalaluddin Haqqani in North Waziristan. But Pakistan’s military and security establishment perceives both men, who focus their fighting in Afghanistan and not in Pakistan, as national security assets more than threats. And there’s no magic drone strike to fix that.”

http://www.slate.com/id/2224668/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/novartis-ceo-speaks-out-a_n_256566.html

Animal rights extremists are trying to prove Dan, Michael Tanji and others right. Stealing the ashes of someone’s mother is grisly on many levels.

*and claims by both parties about the urgency or lack thereof.

I am all for a consumer-driven system, provided we actually have some protections and rights thrown in there.

Professional FL police ruin a man’s life over a breath mint they took 3 months to test to make sure it wasn’t crack:

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/20435114/detail.html

“While May was behind bars, the Kissimmee Police Department towed his car and auctioned it off. He lost his job and was evicted. Now May is suing the city for false arrest and false imprisonment. He wants to be compensated for the loss of his car and job.”

I almost got my Glenn Beck on reading this about the disgraceful teachers unions and their allies in NYC who are bankrupting the system there and doing more than their fair share to destroy the futures of countless NYC children.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill?printable=true