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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 3:41:41 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Are Bloggers Journalists? biz.yahoo.com By Jessi Hempel BusinessWeek Online A California judge issued a preliminary ruling on Mar. 3 that three bloggers who published leaked information about an unreleased Apple (NasdaqNM:AAPL - News) product must divulge their confidential sources. If the ruling holds, it will set a precedent certain to reverberate through the blogosphere because this means under the law bloggers aren't considered journalists. To crack down on internal leaks, Apple has taken legal action against three Web logs: PowerPage, Apple Insider, and ThinkSecret. The sites published information about an unreleased product, code-named Asteroid, that Apple considered a trade secret. According to court papers, the company says the people who run these sites aren't "legitimate members of the press," and therefore it has the right to subpoena information that will reveal which Apple employees are violating their confidentiality agreements. In most cases, journalists are protected under the First Amendment and don't have to reveal their sources.

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 3:49:21 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

That's really shocking. I could imagine perhaps $10,000 but not $29,000 for that. I think that fifty years ago my father's bill (he was a surgeon who handled lots of accidents)plus the local hospital stay for the same thing might have been about $500. If you make every allowance for inflation and improved care, that would probably be equal to about $5,000 now, or less.

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 4:22:09 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

One day in hospital charge, on average, is $3,500 (cheaper cities) -$5,000 (expensive cities) now. Anything a patient used in hospitals is charged at a premium price. Wonder why a speciality doctor can earn $500,000 a year? Those money must come from somewhere, and they are from the people like your mother, who has good insurance and afford to pay. And under the current US system, there is no cure for this type of hospital "disease"<ng>

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 6:37:02 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

House passes 6-year, $284B highway, mass transit bill Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:10:34 PM afxpress.com SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) -- The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed, by a vote of 417 to 9, a six-year, $284 billion highway and mass transit bill

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 6:38:47 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

U.S. Feb budget deficit $113.9 bln Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:48:52 PM forexstreet.com WASHINGTON (AFX) - The U.S. federal government ran a deficit of $113.9 billion in February, the Treasury Department said Thursday. This is a record budget deficit for any single month. It is up from $96.7 billion in February 2004. Receipts were up 8.8 percent year-over-year to $100.9 billion, while outlays grew 12.2 percent to $214.8 billion. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office had estimated February's deficit would be about $115 billion. So far in fiscal 2005, the government has run a deficit of $223.4 billion, about $5.1 billion less than last year at this time, the Treasury said For all of 2005, the CBO projects a deficit of $394 billion. The administration is projecting a deficit of $427 billion Interest on the public debt totaled $15.9 billion in February and $151.4 billion so far this fiscal year. This is up from $143.2 billion in the same period last year

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 7:27:03 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

That is freakin' amazing. When my daughter was born 8 weeks early in 1991, her bill was $1200 a day in the neo-natal intensive care ward, where she lived for 6 weeks. After two more weeks (56 days in all), she was discharged with 60k of bills. Average cost of everything was a hair over $1k a day, and that was for very expensive care. Things have sure changed in 14 short years. It would likely be a quarter million dollars today, or more.