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Healthcare Costs and Billing: Health Insurance Plans

Healthcare in the US is owned and operated by businessmen, whose first priority is profits. Doctors and patients are often lost somewhere within the system that was created for them by the profit seekers.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The American healthcare billing and insurance payment system can best be described as chaotic, bewildering, and nearly incomprehensible. And for those without health insurance, it is totally unfair and cruel.

I spent my corporate life in engineering and management positions.

Conan O`Brien Says NO WAY to NBC

"The Tonight Show" at 12:05 simply isn't "The Tonight Show."

(SALEM, Ore.) - Jay Leno may be getting his entire show back, but he should have remembered the old cliche, be careful what you ask for.

Since Jay Leno retired about six months ago, the odds have been against his replacement. With Leno taking a slender amount of viewers with him to the ten o'clock show, and then Letterman hitting rating records with his affair/blackmail scandal, Conan O'Brien has had an uphill climb where it should have been a cake walk.

National Priorities Project Tallies Cost of War

As of September 30, 2010: $747 billion for Iraq and $299 billion for Afghanistan.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Congress has appropriated an additional $136.8 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the 2010 fiscal year.

National Priorities Project estimates that for this fiscal year, $64.5 billion is directed to Iraq and $72.3 billion to Afghanistan.

Oxycontin and Self Destructing Emails: Welcome to Purdue Pharma`s World

Right out of 'Mission Impossible' -- This email will self-destruct in Five Seconds in Purdue Pharma World.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Right out of "Mission Impossible" -- This email will self-destruct in five seconds in Purdue Pharma World
There is a recent article in an Internet business journal called BNET.

For those who don't know, BNET provides working professionals with the tools, advice, and insight they need to succeed in today's workplace and who believe in the meaning of work, and who know that a fulfilling career is an excellent way to make personal ambitions come true.

California Passes Tax & Regulate Marijuana Legislation

California sets the tone for taxing and regulating cannabis much like alcohol.

(SACRAMENTO) - Today, in a 4 to 3 vote, the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee passed A.B. 390, legislation that would tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.

This is the first time in U.S. history that a state legislature has ever passed—or even considered—a proposal to make marijuana legal, taxed, and regulated.

Answering the Randroids

With no metaphysics and minimal consciousness, Objectivism turns out to be an opinion—one among many.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The key to the validity of Objectivism overall is the first, metaphysics. If its metaphysics is invalid, then the other three points are simply an ideology like any other. Objectivism then becomes Subjectivism.

Physicists have known since 1905 (the very year in which Rand was born) that there is no objective world, thus proving Objectivist metaphysics false. As Einstein said: “For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.”

New Jersey Passes Medical Marijuana Law

New Jersey becomes the 14th state to allow medicinal cannabis for patients.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The New Jersey state legislature passed a law yesterday allowing seriously ill patients with certain qualifying conditions to use medical marijuana with their doctor's recommendation.

Gov. Corzine has said he will sign the bill. This historic vote will make New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to protect from arrest sick and dying patients who are trying to relieve their symptoms with marijuana.

Medical Marijuana Expert Discusses PTSD and Depression (VIDEO)

The Doc says unlike depression, anguish is very close to what a PTSD sufferer experiences.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Dr. Phil Leveque and Bonnie King discuss a very important subject, that is the connection between PTSD and depression.

The VA says PTSD amounts to depression, but Dr. Leveque, who has suffered from PTSD since 1945, says the finding is geared toward saving the VA more money.

North Salem DMV Office Will Move This Weekend

The new office will be located at 3809 Center St. NE in a building behind McGrath’s Fish House and between Best Buy and Pier 1.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The North Salem DMV field office will open at a new location on Tuesday, Jan. 19. The current North Salem location will close at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, to prepare for the move and installation of DMV equipment in the new building.

DMV services will be available at the new site beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Crane Used to Rescue Injured Construction Worker in Forest Grove

Forest Grove firefighters worked with the injured man's fellow construction workers, who used their crane to deliver him to safety.

(FOREST GROVE, Ore.) - Firefighters in Forest Grove responded to the Fernhill Waste Water Treatment Plant job site today, where a man had fallen 25 feet, landing on concrete.

Firefighters received the call about the injured private contractor at approximately 2:51 p.m., according to David Nemeyer with Forest Grove Fire.