UPDATED – January 1, 2025: UnitedHealth Group is not an insurer, it’s a platform. And it’s in the crosshairs as Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley propose breaking it apart, severing its pharmacy arm from the rest of the business.
Unfortunately, my wife and I both have United Health Care and have used them for a number of years. Moments ago, I phoned UHC to activate my annual card, but shortly before doing so – I came across the following letter enclosed with the card. Read it – and then what follows in this posting will make even more sense. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor
The saga of the UnitedHealth Care CEO assassination has, as could be expected, now turned into a discussion of our health care system. Elizabeth Warren, for instance, is making the obvious point that people hate the health care system.
Then, productively, she proposed, along with Republican Senator Josh Hawley, legislation to split apart some of these monster companies from their pharmacy subsidiaries, thus reducing conflicts of interest in health care. While this legislation was in the works long before the killing, it didn’t stop Wall Street investors from saying that any discussion of health care reform was a de facto endorsement of murder. Continue reading
I would like to spend some time today discussing perspectives and opinions; with the first few pages being devoted to the differences between the two words. Perspective is most often used to describe a person’s viewpoint; the way they look at something. For instance, someone watching a baseball game from seats alongside the first base line would have a different perspective on the game that someone watching it from seats behind home plate, or way out in center field. The word is also by authors when writing novels; telling the tale from the first, second, or third person narrative. 
When we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating one of the most improbable miracles in all of human history. You see, the truth is that not just anyone could have showed up and claimed to be the Messiah. According to the Scriptures, the Messiah had to come from a very specific bloodline, the Messiah had to be born at a very specific place, and the Messiah had to be born at a very specific time. It was exceedingly unlikely that anyone would ever be able to fulfill all of those prophecies, but Jesus did. The prophecies about the first coming of Christ that we find in the Bible are powerful evidence for the reality of the Christian faith, and yet these prophecies are rarely taught in our churches today. 
It’s a common misconception that Benjamin Franklin first proposed daylight saving time. He did recommend that people rise early to be healthy, wealthy, and wise. He knew it was biologically natural for humans to wake up when the sun rises and sleep when it sets.
Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch.
Americans’ trust in institutions was further eroded this week. I’m referring to President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. This one’s different.
Power corrupts.
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It started with the Antonine Plague in the late 160s AD, most likely a really bad smallpox epidemic that killed 8 million people across the Roman Empire.
The phrase “equality of opportunity” is expressed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a nondiscrimination principle. There has been much debate on whether the nondiscrimination principle is a formal right to equality before the law, reflecting the principle that everyone has a right not to be discriminated against, or whether it is a substantive right vested in specified groups (e.g., blacks or women) to give them special legal protection that members of other groups (e.g., whites or men) do not enjoy.