Space rock 2012 DA14 "close encounter" with Earth – February 15, 2013 – Video




Space rock 2012 DA14 “close encounter” with Earth – February 15, 2013 Miss distant (AU) : 0.0002, Miss distant (LD) : 0.09, H (mag) : 24.4, Relative velocity (km/s) : 7.78, Estimated diameter : 35 m — 79 m neo.jpl.nasa.gov Orbit diagram: ssd.jpl.nasa.gov 191 total observations over interval: 2012 02 23.02780 — 2012 05 12.418420 www.minorplanetcenter.net (H) — Absolute magnitude 1 AU = ~150 million kilometers (neo.jpl.nasa.gov 1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384000 kilometers Credit: NASA/JPLFrom:galaxy387Views:0 0ratingsTime:00:20More inScience Technology Continue reading

Mitt Romney Leaked Fundraiser Video "Full Video" – Video




17-09-2012 20:32 Mitt Romney told a group of donors in a surreptitiously taped private fundraiser that voters who back President Obama are “entitled” and “dependent on government.” Romney told the donors: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. Continue reading

Letter: Both parties miss the real Medicare solution

Medicare is the 800-pound gorilla in the room when we speak of health care. Both parties fail to address the issue of efficiency to bring down cost. Neither decreasing payments to hospitals (Democrats) and doctors nor using a voucher system to stimulate competition by insurance companies (Republicans) addresses the basic flaw in these approaches Continue reading

Health care law ignores illegal immigrants; hospitals may get stuck with the bill

Hospital leaders told The New York Times they're wary of terms in the health care reform law that will eventually halve the amount of money they receive for caring for uninsured people without addressing the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, most of them lacking insurance. Emergency rooms are required to take in Continue reading

Summer Recess Looming, Questions and Debate Remain over Tax Cuts and Health Care – Video




25-07-2012 21:03 Contentious debates continue between Democrats and Republicans on competing tax cut proposals and the estimated costs of the new health care reform law. Gwen Ifill discusses the shifting sands of Congress with Todd Zwillich, reporter for PRI’s “The Takeaway,” and Julie Rovner, health care correspondent for NPR. Continue reading

Forced sterilization compensation denied

Victims of a eugenics program in NorthCarolina from 1929 to 1974 were potentially going to receive compensation, up to$50,000 each, but state senators recently rejected the plan. Some claim the budgetsimply can’t afford the estimated cost of $10million in a challenging economy. Continue reading