By Linda Pressly Reporter, BBC News 18 July 2011 excerpts Over half of all healthcare in China is paid for by the consumers themselves Healthcare – and how you pay for it – is one of life’s big worries. In China few people have private health insurance but the market is growing. Po[...]
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October 15th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in China
SLIPPERY SLOPE: Middle class China turns to private health insurance
January 3rd, 1942 - 11:05 pm § in Misc.
The Middle Class Tags!
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December 27th, 2017 - 8:25 am § in Politics
GOP Rep calls middle-class tax cuts “socialism”
Robert Pittenger, a multimillionaire businessman, barely won a “safe” GOP seat in North Carolina in 2012, and since then has been one of the most dogmatic, closed-minded, radically rightwing — and racist — members of Congress. If you have a pre-existing condition, he says you[...]
May 11th, 2021 - 5:55 pm § in Israel/Palestine
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May 11th, 2021 - 5:34 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine
Middle East: “The open wound of an unresolved conflict”
Sirens wailing, rockets falling; jets screaming, bombs falling; explosions, many explosions; and death, many are dead. It’s an old, familiar story. BBC‘s Middle East correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, writes: “The fundamental reason for the renewed violence does not change. It is the ope[...]
How clueless Democrats lost the white working class to Trump
An essay by Joan C. Williams, a professor at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, published in Harvard Business Review in November 2016 (and cited in the January 19, 2021, issue of Barron’s magazine), became one of the most widely read articles in HBR’s history. Read it here. The wh[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 5:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Middlebury College revokes Giuliani’s honorary degree
Middlebury College of Vermont revoked an honorary degree it gave Rudy Giuliani in 2005, The Hill reported on Tuesday, January 12, 2020. Read story here and the college’s statement here. On Monday, the college’s president, Laurie Patton, accused the Giuliani of “fomenting the violent uprisi[...]
November 20th, 2020 - 4:58 pm § in Misc.
Unseen Tolkien “Middle Earth” writings to be published
LOTR fans “are in for an unexpected treat,” NBC News says. “Previously unseen collections of writings from the author will be published next year and shed new light on works including ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Silmarillion’ and ‘Unfinished Tales,&#[...]
August 9th, 2019 - 6:37 pm § in Donald Trump
Veteran Intelligence Official Fired In Middle of Election Security Meeting
Sue Gordon, a career intelligence official with 30 years of loyal service to our country who had worked her way up to the No.2 intelligence post of our nation, was sacked by the Trump administration on Thursday while conducting a meeting on U.S. election security, which was interrupted by her boss, [...]
Century 21, The Middle Kingdom Ascendant
The winner and world champion? Xi Xi Ping. China will emerge as indispensable. In return for a peaceable NK, Trump will acceded to removing South Korea and likely Japan as a US ally. China may take bigger role as ‘guarantor and mediator’ after Trump-Kim talks Beijing will help both sides k[...]