Healthcare

Eye Lift Surgery Increasingly Billed To Medicare

Posted May 29th, 2013 by Kaiser Health News

One Strategy for Health-Law Costs: Self Insure

Posted May 28th, 2013 by Wall Street Journal

Millions March Against GM Crops

Posted May 27th, 2013 by Guardian

Low-Skilled Workers Get Raw Deal Under Obamacare

Posted May 24th, 2013 by Real Clear Politics

German Solar Will Cost 4X Finnish Nuclear

Posted May 24th, 2013 by Real Clear Energy

How Ideas From Private Industry Help Combat Medicare Fraud, Waste, And Abuse

Posted May 24th, 2013 by Health Affairs

Insurers Feel Pressure from Health Group with Ties to White House

Posted May 23rd, 2013 by The Hill

Senators Push for Safer Chemicals

Posted May 23rd, 2013 by Politico

The Gross Domestic Product and Health Care Spending

Posted May 23rd, 2013 by New England Journal of Medicine

UFCW President Joe Hansen: Treat Nonprofit Healthcare Fairly

Posted May 22nd, 2013 by The Hill Op-Ed

Latest State

Coal Isn’t Getting Enough Respect, Study Says

Coal's Impacts are Being Underestimated, Says WWU Prof

By John Stang | Crosscut
Corps Review Won’t Weigh Impact of Coal Beyond Northwest

Tells Congressional Hearing That Coal Pollution is Beyond the Scope of Its Analysis

By Hal Bernton | Seattle Times
New State Revenue Report Improves Climate for Budget Talks, But Will it End Talk of Closing Tax Loopholes?

No Word From Dems on Senate Offer

By Brad Shannon | The Olympian
Olympia Closes on Purchase of Isthmus Properties

By Matt Batcheldor | The Olympian
Hanford’s Porous Deadlines

Shame on the Feds for Missing Another Deadline

By Editorial | Seattle Times
Bridge Still Functionally Obsolete

Skagit River Bridge Will Still be Vulnerable to Catastrophic Failure, Even After Multi-Million Dollar Repair

By Jerry Cornfield | The (Everett) Herald
WSU Postpones Plan to Expand at Everett Community College

The (Everett) Herald

By Jerry Cornfield

Latest National/World

Obama Calls for Russia to Join U.S. in Nuclear Arms Cuts

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin indicated that Russia can’t reduce its arms while the U.S. builds missile defense systems, which long have been a point of friction between the two nations.

By Bloomberg Business Week
Boehner Assures Colleagues: No Immigration Bill Without Majority GOP support

They are expected to focus on the GOP-backed bill, which the House Judiciary Committee began debating Tuesday, that would give state and local law enforcement authorities more power to arrest and charge immigrants for over-staying visas or for entering the United States illegally.

By Washington Post
CBO: Immigration Reform Is a Free Lunch

To be precise, the bill increases government spending by $262 billion but increases revenues by $459 billion.

By Washington Post
What Changes Now That Doctors Have Declared Obesity a ‘Disease’?

“I would imagine it would cause the insurance companies to think again” about paying for weight-loss treatments, just as they do for smoking-cessation programs."

By Los Angeles Times
Yes, Premiums Will Go Up

In the end, those who are enrolled in individually purchased insurance plans will figure out that they are going to pay a lot more, and they won’t be happy about it.

By National Review
Explaining the Global Warming Hiatus

The last decade is proof of climate change, not a cause for reflexive skepticism. It was the warmest on record, despite a laundry-list of mitigating factors like prolonged La Nina, a wave of modest volcanic eruptions, and an ebb in solar activity.

By New Republic
Sending Arms to Syria Is Irrational and Dangerous

The chaotic twist of violent sectarianism and a complicated proxy war should be enough to stay out of a civil war that no one, especially the US, can win.

By Al Jazeera Op-Ed