Wish me luckToday we sally forth to do battle!
No time for details.
Insurance Company-Driven Propaganda Storm It's almost heartening to see them go to these lengths - they're getting a little scared - though I worry how many wingnut media outlets will reference the report as if it's substantive..? ( From the Washington Post ) The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report by Ezra Klein In the hallowed tradition of the tobacco and energy industries, the health insurance industry has commissioned a report (pdf) projecting doom and despair for those who seek to reform its business practices. The report was farmed out to the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has something of a history with this sort of thing: In the early-'90s, the tobacco industry commissioned PWC to estimate the economic devastation that would result from a tax on tobacco. The report was later analyzed by the Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting group, which concluded that "the cumulative effect of PW’s methods … is to produce patently unreliable results.&qu
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Bon courage, mon ami. Slay those dragons.
Some was accomplished, but unfortunately we're still left with a detail hanging over us, and we're not likely to see a resolution to it until Tuesday depending upon who's affected by Martin Luther King Day on Monday.
I'll likely mention it all (however lightly) in a blog entry later today.