i happened to see the article about biosolds being sold to SF literally THE day after reading "toxis sludge is good for you". the worst part of it was a quote by gavin newsom that said something like "i would definatly eat food grown in these biosolids" followed im sure by a shiny white grin, which just made the BS alarm ring so loud in my head. whats even worse is that he wants to tax soda cause its "bad for you", but willing smiles a shit-eating grin (literally) when it comes to something as potentially dangerous to a huge swath of people as toxic sludge on our "organically grown" food. ESPECIALLY since its also for schools. who KNOWS what will happen to the kids who eat these vegetable from pre-k to senior year. its scary when even SF is so easiy duped! we ban plastic bags and smoking basically everywhere but dont notice whyneout toxic waste is being sold to us as "organic". maybe its not that we dont notice, its just that we fight the little pointless fights cause those in charge know it will let them do whatever they want with the bigger picture (money and control, anyone?)
...don't seem to operate much differently from for-profit insurance companies. My health insurance, for example, is with Rocky Mountain Health Plans, the company that denied health insurance coverage to a baby it deemed to be [http://www.politicolnews.com/fat-baby-denied-health-care/ too fat]. It happened that the child's father worked as a reporter at the local NBC TV station, and he made a news story out of it. After that, RMHP quickly covered the child.
Anne Landman
Many, many decades ago, before the age of McCarron/Ferguson, state insurance commissioners put into effect uniform regulations that provided a two year contestibility period (one year in Missouri and possibly other states) the made the law that a life insurance policy after which a policy cannot be yanked on the basis of minor errors on the application except in the case of gross fraud. Why, oh, why the same model of regulation have not be applied to health insurance products in which after a year or so contestibility period coverage could not be yanked. Also, state insurance commissioners did a splendid job many years later in cleaning up the fraud and confusion that permeated the Medicare supplement insurance products with the alphabet soup of standardized choices. As far as insurance companies delaying and denying coverage to the point of causing death, I believe that a national emergency adjudication board be instituted with the power to force coverage in the case of iminent death or permanent morbility and disability if the full extent of the treatmen is denied by insurance company bureaucrats. I would also like the board to have the power to petition the courts to have repeat offending companies placed into receivership as the ultimate "death penilty" (considering the the Supreme Court, packed with ideological 'crackpots' have ruled that a corporation is a 'person') with investor equity being canceled. This would change behavioral pressure that investors subject insurance company bureaucrats balance of placing bottom line returns ahead of life!
MLR information is readily available from health insurance companies' financial statements filed with the SEC. The low percentage of premium income incurred for medical losses can be explained, in part, by the high percentage of premiums for administrative expenses incurred (i.e., executive salaries and other operating costs) and profits realized by health insurance companies. An analysis of the major companies' financials demonstrates that those "costs" are far in excess of similar expenses incurred by Medicare and the healthcare systems of other industrial countries.
It all boils down to excessive operating costs and profits.
It is disappointing that this site can condemn every corporation and leave (Rockefeller family-funded through their Chase Bank) Planned Parenthood out of their condemnations.
Nothing more conclusively demonstrates the lack of corporate ethics than their willingness to dismantle fetuses for profit...they will literally do anything for money!
Btw, read up on how abortions are performed. It's not pleasant conversation to say the least.
It is disappointing that this site can condemn every corporation and leave (Rockefeller family-funded through their Chase Bank) Planned Parenthood out of their condemnations.
Nothing more conclusively demonstrates the lack of corporate ethics than their willingness to dismantle fetuses for profit...they will literally do anything for money!
Btw, read up on how abortions are performed. It's not pleasant conversation to say the least.
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