If Hillary Clinton wanted a graceful exit
Hillary Clinton is open to all kinds of useful advice, but here’s some she probably doesn’t want to hear: she just quit the presidential race now. “If Hillary Clinton wanted a graceful exit, she’d drop out now—before the March 4 Texas and Ohio primaries—and endorse Barack Obama.” Why? If she doesn’t win Texas and Ohio on March 4 by 20 points or more, “the delegate math is forbidding.” And then comes Pennsylvania, where “the Clinton campaign did not even file full delegate saltes. That’s how sure they were of putting Obama away on Super Tuesday.” And the much-ballyhooed super delegates won’t turn things around eitehr. Ergo, Alter writes: “The choice before her is to go down ugly with a serious risk of humiliation at the polls, or to go down classy, with a real chance of redemption.”
Is the court’s ruling fair? Is $9 million acceptable? Too little? Too much?
Patsy Bates, a 52-year-old breast cancer patient, just learned of a court order that awards her $9 million dollars in damages after her healthcare provider, Health Net Inc., one of California’s largest private medical insurance providers, cancelled her coverage just when she needed it the most.
Bates, a grandmother and hair salon owner, was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer in January 2004 and had accrued medical expenses in excess of $129,000 when Health Net cancelled her coverage. She was forced to forego medical care until a charitable organization pitched in several months later.
A private arbitration judge, Sam Cianchetti, who is retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court, ruled on the case, saying Health Net acted in bad faith and broke state laws. The ruling is the first of its kind and is expected to send a strong message to healthcare providers for the “egregious” and controversial practice of weeding out policyholders who accrue large medical bills.
Bates, a grandmother and hair salon owner, was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer in January 2004 and had accrued medical expenses in excess of $129,000 when Health Net cancelled her coverage. She was forced to forego medical care until a charitable organization pitched in several months later.
A private arbitration judge, Sam Cianchetti, who is retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court, ruled on the case, saying Health Net acted in bad faith and broke state laws. The ruling is the first of its kind and is expected to send a strong message to healthcare providers for the “egregious” and controversial practice of weeding out policyholders who accrue large medical bills.
Hilary Said - “Shame on you, Barack Obama,”
“Shame on you, Barack Obama,” Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference after a morning rally, holding the fliers and shaking them in the air as she spoke. “It is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. That’s what I expect from you. Meet me in Ohio. Let’s have a debate about your tactics and your behavior in this campaign.”
The fliers were handed to Mrs. Clinton by a woman who attended the rally and then approached her on the rope line after her speech.
“Time and time again, you hear one thing in speeches and then you see a campaign that has the worst kind of tactics, reminiscent of the same sort of Republican attacks on Democrats,” Mrs. Clinton said.
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