You don’t know Steve H. but he knows pain … the pain in his back and the pain of healthcare costs. Steve H. was profiled in the Steven Brill’s Bitter Pill article in the March 4th edition of Time. Steve H. is an Oklahoma City man whose doctor thought he needed a RestoreUltra neurostimulator to [...]
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Erik Paulsen (R-MN-03), the co-chair of the Medical Technology Caucus {which really needs to update its Membership listing as many listed are no longer serving in Congress}, is focused on repealing the Medical Device Excise Tax. For those that are unfamiliar with the MDET, it is a 2.3% Excise Tax assessed on applicable (not all) [...]
Jobs ! Jobs ! Jobs ! Repeal Obamacare ! Repeal Obamacare ! Repeal Obamacare ! That was the mantra from the House Republicans once John Boehner grabbed the Speaker’s Gavel after the 2010 elections … but since the November 2012 jobs report was issued, the Republicans have been relative silent on jobs. But with the [...]
The Republican mid-term election game plan was outlined in Erza Klein’s column on Friday : Step 1 : Create problems for Obamacare. Step 2 : Blame Obamacare for the problems. Step 3 : Political profit ! So it was not a surprise that on Earth Day, the Star-Tribune would waste a few trees with an [...]
QUERY : Would you buy a stock that earned 15.5% net on it’s sales (that would be $695 million from a net sales of $4,471.7 million) … roughly $4 per share with a market price under $70 … and pays a dividend of 72 cents per share ? Would you be more inclined to purchase [...]
A just released report from Silicon Valley Bank on the Medical Device Excise Tax (MDET) has more bright spots than Erik Paulsen’s (R-MN-03) persistent yapping would lead you to expect. Executives from device companies seem to feel optimistic, even though they expect the tax to delay profitability. The spin on the medical device tax is [...]
Discussing job losses is never pleasant and the news from Eden Prairie’s SuperValu was not good : Supervalu said Tuesday it is cutting 1,100 corporate and store-support jobs, including 600 at the grocer’s Eden Prairie, Minn., headquarters. The cuts will eliminate about 22 percent of the jobs at Supervalu’s Twin Cities headquarters, where it has [...]
To understand the Kline Agenda, John Kline’s (R-MN-02) press releases tell his “war” stories. Remember the one from February 5, 2003 WASHINGTON – Congressman John Kline (R-MN) responded to the presentation of Secretary Powell before the United Nations Security Council today. “Secretary Powell has presented clear and irrefutable evidence of Iraq’s violations,” Kline commented. “It [...]
The military’s mission is to fight and win. “The Army is focused on the short term — ‘I need a warm body manning a gun in a Humvee. That’s great — until that warm body is crazy and eats his gun.” – Peter J.N. Linnerooth, a Bronze Star-winning Army psychologist, who took his own life [...]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, defined the strategy for the Farm Bill would be not to pass the five-year legislation that was approved in a bi-partisan basis in the House Agriculture Committee and to have the Congress to agree on a short-term extension … and to “Wait for the [...]
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