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Workers Comp Insider
2d ago
“In life’s unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices.” — George Will And so, it has happened. Speaker Mike Johnson, transforming what had been a spine of jello into one of firmer stuff, aligned himself with willing Democrats waving Ukrainian flags, and today cajoled the House of Representatives into passing a $95 ..read more
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2d ago
As I write this, there are wars all over the world. Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Yemen to name a few. All are horrific and are ongoing for no good reason whatsoever, with untold death and destruction. In the early 14th century, Dante Alighieri published his Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. In the Inferno ..read more
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1w ago
“They are now being outshot by the Russian side five to one. So the Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians than the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go to 10 to one in a matter of weeks. We’re not talking about months. We’re not talking hypothetically ..read more
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1w ago
“If the Congress doesn’t help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 8 April 2024 That’s about as stark a statement as you’ll see. And he means it. Ukraine faces no bigger disaster than losing its war with Russia, a war it did not start. Russia invaded this sovereign, independent democracy in ..read more
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2w ago
“War is hell.” — Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, in a speech to graduates of the Michigan Military Academy in 1879. Sherman was right, and at this moment his three-word phrase is ringing true, especially in Ukraine and Gaza. Inhumanity is on full display. When wars end, somebody has to pick up the pieces — in ..read more
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2w ago
Yesterday, Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised. Consequently, the wheels of justice continue to grind slowly, but exceedingly fine, and the trial will begin in eleven days. And what of Trump’s claims of ..read more
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2w ago
In 2005, the late Thomas Crombie Schelling won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economic science for “having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis.” Schelling is also known for his 1961 article Dispersal, Deterrence, and Damage, in which he coined the term “collateral damage.” Militarily, collateral damage has been a constant ..read more
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1M ago
From 2003 through 2020, I was a Founding Director of Commonwealth Care Alliance, a non-profit Massachusetts HMO serving dual-eligible beneficiaries.¹ From 2017 until my retirement at the end of 2020, I was Chair of the Board. In 2006, we were excited to enter the world of electronic health records, EHRs. Doing so was expensive, but ..read more
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1M ago
On 24 February 2022, the day that began Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian armored vehicles and soldiers crossed over the southern border from Crimea, the region captured in another invasion eight years earlier. The new invasion force rolled into Henichesk, a sleepy settlement of some 20,000 souls in southern Ukraine. When they arrived, the ..read more
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1M ago
Looking at sinners from last to first The hypocrite seems to me the worst. For some reason, recent events, unfolding like slow-motion train wrecks, have me thinking about Abraham Lincoln and the way he got things done. In Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin described how Lincoln, considered a “backward bumpkin” by his adversaries, co-opted ..read more