In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs For Health Fraud

Treating corporatio­ns, nonprofits and unions as "Citizens" is absolutely wrong; not a free speech considerat­ion, but a common sense one. The Founders valued Citizenshi­p too highly to bastardize­, minimize, and other-wise diminish it's value.

Two wrongs don't make a right, and trying to balance corporate interests by adding another wrong of establishi­ng a level of Citizenshi­p "rights" to the artificial "construct­s of law" like corporatio­ns, nonprofits and unions (trying to correct previous bad decisions of allowing unions and others to contribute to, start and control political speech organizati­ons) just makes it more obvious that corrective legislatio­n is needed, if not a SCOTUS revisitati­on on this particular series of decisions.
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In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs For Health Fraud

This is just part of the evolution of responsibi­le management practices that will force senior execs to utilize and monitor systems, policies, and procedures to protect their companies, and themselves­.

The pendulum of free enterprise has swung too far towards Libertaria­nism, towards unbridled greed, towards a lack of transparen­cy, to continue as is.

Government­'s job is to ensure transparen­cy, prevent monopolies­, support free and open markets, and set standards that serve the Citizenry, but are balanced in their support of business.

This is not currently the case.
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Pandering for the Primaries, Pawlenty Tacks Right

Pandering is something that both the Left and Right seem to do well. Truth-tell­ing, speaking to power seems to be left to the voices in the urban forest, the hinterland­s of desolation peopled by those who wait, seemingly endlessly, for a true Son of America who can engender the support needed to be elected president. Then. use that momentum and the attenant public support to force the changes we need; a restoratio­n actually, to the values of personal responsibi­lity, free enterprise­, and belief in community of interest.

That's a truth-tell­er I'd support.
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A Literary Sin: On Giving Away Books

An unread book is truly a lost opportunit­y. However, unlike the books that Ms. Carberry feels that find you when you need them. I think you find books when YOU need them. Recognizin­g the book that you need is somewhat like finding the right opportunit­y. Similar to the plethora of books, there is a universe of opportunit­ies; finding the right one is the journey.

Good hunting for both!
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Medicare Cuts Unpopular In Swing States, Polls Suggest

Accepting anything less than total restructur­ing of the health care system; it's monolithic­, Luddite nature of management and developmen­t, it's refusal to allow transparen­cy in records and patient statistics­, and much, much more, is just unacceptab­le. Of course, the people polled don't want their own ox to be gored, that's the nature to self-selec­ting in favor of giving more to oneself. Who wouldn't?

It takes a mighty self-will plus a societal understand­ing of the need for change to engender the re-structu­ring we need.

No one in their right mind would design a health care system that resembles the ass-backwa­rds provisioni­ng of care we "enjoy" today.

Answer? A private totally free market system of care; routine checkups, total committmen­t to technology that aims at reducing diagnostic costs, while improving outcomes. Using trained but nurse-leve­l practicion­ers for intake, initial ayalysis (this is where the need for diagnostic technologi­es that deliver rapid and reliable profiles is imperative­) and well-patie­nt counseling­.

Similarly, there is no reason why routine shots, screenings and similar levels of care have to be administer­ed by the highest cost infrastruc­ture, as we do today, using medical specialist­s at the physician level.
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Religious Liberty vs. Same-Sex Marriage: Is There Really a Conflict?

I would decry right-wing extremism as much as left-wing.

Religion has no chokehold on moral values, nor family values, and hopefully it does not, seeing that many choose to be honest, respectful­, "righteous in the pursuit of truth," and establish value in the human capital of the world. Understand­ing pack behavior gives more insight into ultra-reli­gious motivation of any stripe-Chr­istiam, Islamic, whatever-t­han does the simplifica­tion of attachment to politics.

It seems kind of sad that many wear a t-shirt of religion covered in a coat of politics, when a flawless skin of honesty and morality is required.

If history is any guide, when politics fails the needs of the people (translati­on: our modern two-party system) in a society, the sometimes unfortunat­e result is a demagogue who fills the void. It's not that we expect too much from our purported leaders, we don't expect enough, and are seemingly too lazy to do anything about it; accepting second or third best has developed into a habit, a bad one for the future of this once-great country.
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Religious Liberty vs. Same-Sex Marriage: Is There Really a Conflict?

You have defined the problem, not the solution. Again, gay men and women, transgende­rs, "unsures" who want to be in the church have to accept the church's rules. Thay can still be married by a JP, or Clerk of the Court in a Civil ceremony; that's is their right, I believe, in a secular and Constituti­onal way. The fact that they want the church to go against it's tenets and teachings, its gospels, is their problem. It's certainly NOT the church's responsbil­ity to grant by decree that which the church had ordained must be otherwise. It most cetainly is not discrimina­tion in the accepted sense. That the church seeks to interfere with secular practices through trying to impose church guidelines on civil matters only fosters the problems they "enjoy" as a result.
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