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Airing Grievances with ObamaCare

Posted by Amelie McNab Leave Comment »

Thank you very much, Grace-Marie, Jim, Bob, and all the other folks at our respective institutions and to HarperCollins for making this wonderful book project possible. Id like to thank the Obama Administration and the last Congress for making this necessary, but I dont want to. So lets just continue our collective Heimlich maneuver to dislodge whats stuck in our throats. Our books written to provide you with a firm foundation and understanding of the serious consequences of the un-Affordable Care Act, or aka-ACA, for Americans in various slices of life.

I think we do that in a clear and accessible manner, at least my co-authors did. But

South Carolina Bankrupty Laws

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While bankruptcy relief is a federal process, some laws such as those regarding income qualification and asset exemptions apply specifically to South Carolina residents. Most people who file personal bankruptcy in the state choose a partial debt repayment plan in Chapter 13 or request forgiveness of approved bills in Chapter 7.

Bankruptcy Basics
- You must have lived in South Carolina for at least six months to file bankruptcy as a resident of the state.

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Quarter-Million Dead and Not Counting

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After this past weekend of horrific storms and tornadoes, it was clearly appropriate for our elected officials to declare a federal disaster in some areas. With the designation comes some federal money and help for the storm-ravaged areas and residents. Few would quarrel with our government stepping up and stepping in when so many lives and so many livelihoods have been damaged and lost. It is the right thing to do, and some suffering will be mitigated.

Over the past four years since the making of SiCKO, Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, an estimated 45,000 people each and every year have died simply because they lacked access to healthcare. T

UnitedHealth’s 1st-quarter profit climbs 13 percent, helped by commercial health insurance

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UnitedHealth Group says its first-quarter net income rose 13 percent, led by revenue gains in commercial health insurance. The managed care company also raised its full-year earnings forecast.

The Minnetonka, Minn., insurer says it earned 1.34 billion, or 1.22 per share, in the three months that ended March 31. That’s up from the 1.19 billion, or 1.03 per share, in the same quarter last year. Revenue rose 10 percent to 25.43 billion.

Analysts expected 89 cents per share on 24.97 billion in revenue.

UnitedHealth is the largest health insurer based on revenue and the first to report quarterly earnings.

The company now expects 2011 earnings per share to range between 3.95 and 4.05. Read more…

An apple a day keeps bad cholesterol away

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Heres a heart-healthy reason to prescribe yourself an apple a day: Women who ate dried apples every day for a year lowered their LDL (bad) cholesterol by 23 percent, according to a study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and presented this week at the Experimental Biology 2011 conference in Washington, D.C.

Researchers split 160 women between 45 and 65 into two groups: one consumed roughly 2.5 ounces of dried apples daily and the other group ate dried prunes. Women who ate the apples not only saw a 14 percent to 23 percent decrease in LDL cholesterol, they lowered cell-damaging lipid hydroperoxide by 33 percent and C-reactive protein by 32 percent, increased good cholesterol by 4 percent, and lost on average 3.3 pounds.

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