KILLING GRANNY

KILLING GRANNY

NEWSWEEK (2009) 9/21

EVAN THOMAS/35-40

There are not any death panels. Rather, about 25,000 people die for lack of medical care. This is about the elderly who are slowly dying and what medicine should do. The most important part is that the individual is dying and with heroic medical intervention, they will die naturally. This is called passive euthanasia.

If you have a LIVING WILL or another legal document approved by the pro-life groups, your chances of dying naturally are dramatically improved. Further, as you are dying you receive palliative care. That means that you are kept clean and hydrated and given mild pain killers.

However, you could go on for years in or at some level of consciousness. All the

OBAMACARE indicates is that at some future time, a family discussion occurs about what you want when you are clearly dying.

However, nothing in the Medicare bill now in the senate contains this legislation. Nor have DEATH PANELS been established.

NO COUNTRY FOR SICK MEN

REID/ 42-46

Our medical care system regardless of how it is arranged reflects our culture, vales, and our feelings about other people in our country. Everywhere in the world, there is some arrangement of shared risk via the government to take care of every one.

Some are very poor and rudimentary and others very elaborate. However, the USA has the most expensive system for some but not all people. This is how we feel about each other. There are other countries of vast diversity, but they still have some type of socialized medicine.

WHO ARE THE MOST TALENTED IN THE LAND

(That means that they have won Emmys, Grammies, Oscars, and Tonys.)

They are:

1. BARBARA STREISAND
2. MIKE NICHOLS
3. MARVIN HAMLISCH
4. MEL BROOKS
5. 5.LIZA MINNELLI
6. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
7. RITA MORENO
8. JONATHAN TUNICK

BUSINESS WEEK (2009) 9/29

9/28

MANDEL AND FOSTER/17

Common knowledge in the past thought that consumers spend about 70% or impact about 70% of the economy. However, new research which is also described in a bar graph indicates that about 40% is impacted by consumers.

COLLEGE RISING COSTS

From 2000 to 2008, a 20-34 college grad with a BA or BS degree are losing out. In adjusted dollars, they pay more for tuition, board, and room. Yet, their pay has dropped

11%. They lose more than if they get an AA degree.

FUNNY MONEY

Obama wants banks and investment houses to go back to loans and related that the average person can understand. However, the banks are fighting it and should win this battle. Business Week writer prefers that some new financial instruments can become more complex if reviewed by government in what he calls guided information.

FURTHER, on the page 26, Sasseen indicates that the same banks bailed out by the feds do not want to change their ways.

MALPRACTICE INSURANCE

ARNST/30

CAPPING malpractice pay outs claimed to be a big expense in medicine is not. It is a bout 2 to 3 percent in costs.

100 BEST GLOBAL BRANDS (AS MEASURED BY BUSINESS WEEK)

1. COCA-COLA
2. 2.IBM
3. MICROSOFT
4. GENERAL ELECTRIC
5. NOKIA
6. MCDONALDS
7. GOOGLE
8. TOYOTA
9. INTEL
10. DISNEY

THE ECONOMIST (2009) 9/29

CARMAKERS/19

Carmakers are not happy about the public’s surge toward green cars. That means small cars. There is less profit.

FRIENDS FOR SALE

FACEBOOK

71/FRIENDS FOR SALE

Supposedly FACEBOOK has 300 million users. Another firm without the support of FACEBOOK trawls names for age, sex, location and related. They charge 15 cents a name or 5 thousand names for around 700 dollars. Users or FACEBOOK FRIENDS may feel used and drop the website.