Articles by Girish Anand

June 24, 2009
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SEIU Employs Tactics It Wants Outlawed for Employers

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Betraying its own selfish interests in trying to castrate business owners when it comes to union organizing, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is now employing the very tactics it wants to outlaw for employers. The Los Angeles Times reports that the SEIU in California is blocking elections at hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities as the nascent National Union...
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June 24, 2009
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Painting 'The Doctor' a Far Cry from Today's Reality

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Sir Luke Fildes lost his eldest son Phillip on Christmas Eve 1877 while a doctor spent a compassionate vigil at the child's side. In commemoration, Sir Fildes painted "The Doctor" (above) in 1891 to depict "the physician in our time." This same painting was used by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1949 to stop President Harry Truman in his attempt to nationalize health care. The messa...
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June 17, 2009
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2009 Federal Minimum Wage Increase Takes Effect July 24

On July 24, 2009 the federal minimum wage increases from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. This is the third and final annual increase under the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. Many employers consider this increase bad timing, considering the current economic conditions. However, when the Fair Minimum Wage Act was passed in 2006, during an unprecedented bubble in the stock market and real estate mar...
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June 16, 2009
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This Just In: Twitter Dangerous to Your Health

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We can be grateful to Twitter for bringing us the truth out of Iran in the ongoing civil unrest, but at least one unspecified firm has seen fit to warn against using Twitter--if the fire alarm goes off: 

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June 12, 2009
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Basic $12K-a-Month Employee Wins $4.1 Billion Termination Judgment

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Some lucky dude by the name of Paul Thomas Chester was fired by iFreedom Communications. Chester had been paid $12,000 a month plus a 5-percent commission on gross sales and also had a bunch of stock guaranteed to him. When iFreedom fired him, Chester filed suit, which went first to an arbitrator and then to a superior court that affirmed the arbitrator's judgment. Result? Chester walked away...
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June 8, 2009
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'How the Mighty Fall' Describes GM's Fate Precisely

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Back in January (I can't believe this year is already almost half over!) I read and reported on a book entitled Good to Great, which offered case studies on firms that rose to the top in their field, including Circuit City and Fannie Mae. Of course, we all know what happened to those two entities. Circuit City liquidated itself, and Fannie Mae likely would've been forced into bankruptcy as well...
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June 6, 2009
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Public Perception v. 'The Experts' in Health Care

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I've shamelessly stolen the graph below that shows the differences of opinion between the public and the so-called experts on how well, or poorly, our health care system is performing--and why. I took it from the Kaiser Family Foundation Web site and the article by Drew Altman, Ph.D., entitled "Pulling It Together":
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June 3, 2009
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Stress of Global Recession Leading to Weird Results

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Actually, I'm not sure if what I'm going to write about has anything to do with either stress or global economic blues, but it must be indicative of something. (Now, I know I should be writing about Government Motors and the new Pelosi GTX, or even about health care deform, but this looked too good to pass up.) According to the Wall Street Journal and a Japanese culture writer named Lisa Kata...
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June 2, 2009
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Income Distribution (and Taxes) in the United States

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I found this (now-purloined) graph prepared by an economist writing about health care in the United States in the New York Times. His purpose was much different than mine. I'm reproducing it to show how politicians blatantly lie every time they say they're going to tax the wealthy and leave the middle class alone. Yeah, right. All the money is in the middle, as the graph clearly shows (totals i...
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June 1, 2009
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Duelling Memos: Baucus and Kennedy Go Head to Head

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This past week saw Ted Kennedy and his Senate Committee on Health (and a zillion other things) issue a paper on how the Massachusetts Senator envisions America's new health care system. Now, his counterpart over in Senate Finance, Senator Max Baucus of Montana, has joined the fray with his own paper on the subject. Actually, there's not much difference in the two, but Baucus reveals some juicy...
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