Dan E.

Please stop in and wish Cathi L a happy birthday today!

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Loved your comments to Steve regarding Global Warming and the financial sums and Holdren's book quotes. You did gooooood! : )

thanks for viewing it.
thanks for the comment.
what cartoon should I do next?

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I posted another cartoon with comments

Always nice to have a new friend

That photograph is stolen intellectual property, taken from my Gather pages without my permission. I insist that it be removed immediately or I will initiate legal action.

Stealing property is not only unethical and in violation of Gather TOS, it is also illegal and punishable by law.

Thanks for the friend request. Be kind in your commenting. I've had enough drama to last for months. :)

on the lighter side of pings....
I am just stopping by to wish you a wonderful weekend!


joy

By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 23, 2009

The political battle over health-care reform is waged largely with numbers, and few number-crunchers have shaped the debate as much as the Lewin Group, a consulting firm whose research has been widely cited by opponents of a public insurance option.

To Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.), the House Republican whip, it is "the nonpartisan Lewin Group." To Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, it is an "independent research firm." To Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), the second-ranking Republican on the pivotal Finance Committee, it is "well known as one of the most nonpartisan groups in the country."

Generally left unsaid amid all the citations is that the Lewin Group is wholly owned by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation's largest insurers.

More specifically, the Lewin Group is part of Ingenix, a UnitedHealth subsidiary that was accused by the New York attorney general and the American Medical Association of helping insurers shift medical expenses to consumers by distributing skewed data. Ingenix supplied UnitedHealth and other insurers with data that allegedly understated the "reasonable and customary" doctor fees that insurers use to determine how much they will reimburse consumers for out-of-network care.

I think George Carlin was right on the nose with that one!