[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Geena Davis Talks Gender in TV and Film
- [Women & Hollywood - Melissa Silverstein]
Geena’s in NYC this week making appearances at the UN, Social Good Summit and Clinton Global Initiative events talking about the gender disparity in film and TV. Here’s yesterday’s chat with Soldedad O’Brien.
- Insurance Industry Taking Every Possible Advantage of Affordable Care Act
- [Firedoglake - David Dayen ]
"Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 23."
…this is not the only area where we’re seeing something like this. The ACA creates a law forcing a high medical loss ratio; insurance companies try to game it…
…in addition to having to fend off the slow chipping away of the law by the GOP, especially if they gain power over one or both houses of Congress, Democrats have to deal with the foxes they left in the henhouse… This could have been mitigated by real competition in the marketplace through a public insurance option, or of course removed as a problem with a single-payer system.
[I say again: It is immoral to withhold heathcare for money. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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