Saturday
Is Soda the New Tobacco? - NYTimes.com
Is Soda the New Tobacco? - NYTimes.com: "reverse the fact that healthy food is too expensive and unhealthy food is too cheap"
Friday
Health insurers take heat for rise in profits - latimes.com
Health insurers take heat for rise in profits - latimes.com: "the five largest health insurance companies racked up combined profits ... up 56% over 2008, [and] covered 2.7 million fewer people than they did the year before.
The report released Thursday also said some of the five insurers cut the proportion of premiums they spent on their customers' medical care, committing relatively more to salaries, administrative expenses and profit."
The report released Thursday also said some of the five insurers cut the proportion of premiums they spent on their customers' medical care, committing relatively more to salaries, administrative expenses and profit."
Thursday
FAIR Blog � Blog Archive � Political Reporters Too Scared of Politics to Cover Politics
FAIR Blog - Blog Archive - Political Reporters Too Scared of Politics to Cover Politics: "Washington political journalists can't tell you what's going on inside the White House because then they would lose access to what's going on inside the White House."
What Caring for Illegal Immigrants Costs - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com
What Caring for Illegal Immigrants Costs - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com: "contrary to popular perception, immigrants actually cost the health care system less per person than do natives of the United States. Nor do illegal immigrants make up a disproportionate share of the costs to public programs like Medicaid"
3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles
3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles: "And I think Toyota got in trouble because they just overburdened that capacity — not necessarily the technical capacity, but the capacity to develop people." Scroll down to the comment placing Toyota's current recall(s) into perspective compared to massive recalls by other automakers.
Tuesday
Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us
Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us: "As Krugman sees it, the economic ideas associated most heavily with the University of Chicago — such as the continuous efficiency of markets and the need to keep government out of the economic arena — have had a broad and baleful influence on economics education."
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