Healthcare Spending Relative Ranking by Country

Tweet Your Senator on HealthCare Insurance Reform

Healthcare insurance reform is currently a hot issue. You can make your voice heard via Twitter--by Tweeting your Senator in favor of healthcare reform.

Tweet Your Senator is a new feature now available at BarackObama.com.

Tweet Your Senator is easy and simple to use. You enter your zipcode and a pre-populated tweet is created that is directed at one of you Senators.

After you are done entering your zipcode, you press a button, and the tweet goes up to your Twitter page and is ready to be sent. If your senator is not on Twitter, the tweet will include your Senator's name rather than their Twitter handle.

The Tweet Your Senator page also contains an interactive map that is very interesting. If you tweet you might see your face.

To Tweet Your Senator go here.

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6,816,000 Americans on the Dole

Sometime you have to look beyond the obvious. Continuing claims for unemployment set a record for the 19th consecudtive week. Nearly 6.82 million American are now receiving unemployment checks weekly. What happens when the benefits run out?

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

In the week ending June 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 601,000, a decrease of 24,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 625,000. The 4-week moving average was 621,750, a decrease of 10,500 from the previous week's revised average of 632,250.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 5.1 percent for the week ending May 30, unchanged from the prior week's revised rate of 5.1 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending May 30 was 6,816,000, an increase of 59,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 6,757,000. The 4-week moving average was 6,750,500, an increase of 57,250 from the preceding week's revised average of 6,693,250.

The fiscal year-to-date average for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment for all programs is 5.238 million.

Source Department of Labor

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Mayo Clinic Calls for Universal Coverage

We are heading for universal health coverage of some type. This plan makes sense.

Do you favor universal health care?

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Make everybody in America buy health insurance, and give subsidies to help the poor afford it. Force insurance companies to offer some coverage to everyone, regardless of health status. And have everybody buy their insurance directly, rather than getting it through their employer. Those are the broad outlines of a plan (described here) created by the Mayo Clinic’s Health Policy Center after consulting with hundreds of academics, patient activists and health-care providers in the last year and a half. The group also got input from executives at companies such as Wal-Mart and Verizon that are not part of the health-care industry.

U.S. News Revs Up Rankings

Good lists. Lots of information that becomes useful when you least expect it.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com U.S. News Revs Up Rankings As its popular, controversial college ranking enters its 25th year, U.S. News is significantly expanding its rankings business. Five years ago, hospitals, grad schools and colleges comprised the magazine’s annual best-of issues. Health-insurance plans were added two years ago, and this year brings five more: children’s hospitals, cars, best places to retire and two new college rankings — best black colleges, and best of the highly ranked schools that are easier to get into. “We do have others in the works,” the magazine’s editor, Brian Kelly, told me, but he declined to elaborate.