This may be a result of the questions posed last week by Senator Grassley. It is getting even more complicated as insurance companies work on new algorithms to create new insurance plans and add them to the large pool of plans offered and it does not appear to be getting any easier to be able...
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on 11-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, AARP, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, United HealthCare
This particular statement really bothers me, is CMS now going to take on the role of “doctor here? “ The Bush administration argued that Medicare officials had the right to decide whether the expense incurred for a given item, not just the item itself, was “reasonable and necessary.” How...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Pharma, Congress, CMS, Medicare contractor, Drug costs, Federal Court
Words of wisdom and right to the heart of the matter. Below I have included a clip from the Wall Street Journal about President Bush signing a bill on protecting intelligent property, and what I found interesting is the mentioning of the fact that the coordinator for this was originally to be housed...
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on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, Congress, software, Wall Street, White House, Algorithms, Geeks, Laws, formulas, Warren Buffett, Department of Justice, Intelligent Property, Sofware
Well hold off those fire sales for the computers and servers, as the FBI will more than likely want some forensic investigations done. All of the creative financing and banking was accomplished with software. Years ago the stock market did not have the sophisticated tools we have today,...
With all the emphasis on the economy, you can follow both the House, the Senate and Whitehouse on Twitter. The House in particular will give you a ton of updates on what is happening on the floor. The Senate doesn’t update very often. I have not tried it, but it looks like you can also send...
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on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Congress, Twitter, Senate, Economics, White House, House of Representatives
Even though he was not able to attend personally, modern technology of video conferencing made it possible for the Senator to continue his efforts and participation. As fuel prices continue to rise, along with just general state of the economy, video conferencing is finally coming of age. ...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Cancer, Congress, Senate, Senator Kennedy, Skype, Video Conferencing
In view of the recent events, I ran across the opinion article, written by a Venture Capitalist and just a small portion of some the content is below. I looked to see what they currently had under management, in other words, investments and about 90% involves technology, interesting. As everyone...
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on 09-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Congress, Business Intelligence, software, Bill Gates, Software as a Service, Venture Capitalists, Wall Street, Intellectual property, Intelligence, Junk Bonds, Campaign 2008