A federal judge in Miami is considering whether a lawsuit claiming Florida's Medicaid program is failing children should be made into a class action affecting tens of thousands of people. Judge Adalberto Jordan must decide whether the 2005 lawsuit should cover every Floridian under age 21 who is eligible for Medicaid.
After an outcry from dozens of senior citizens, Bristol (CT) Hospital and the city announced that they will reopen the small medical clinic they shut down. A deal worked out between the hospital and the city will bring back the most commonly used medical services, but on a restricted schedule and with a higher cost to seniors.
As Congress returns home for its summer break, conservative activists are packing community halls and school cafeterias to protest the healthcare legislation, hoping to derail President Obama's top domestic priority. Republicans say the crowds prove there is strong opposition to revamping the healthcare system at the grass roots.
Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials have assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion. Drug industry lobbyists reacted with alarm to a House healthcare overhaul measure that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices and demand additional rebates from drug manufacturers. In response, the industry successfully demanded that the White House explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs in the overhaul.
Some industries are taking much more advantage of mobile ads than others, with broadcasting and cable TV, movies and entertainment, and automobile manufacturing industries leading the way. Some industries are seeing success in monetizing mobile ads, with just one-fifth of all mobile inventory slated for house ads.
Though Twitter is abuzz in the mainstream media, just 8% of advertisers and consumers believe it is a "very effective" promotional tool, according to June 2009 data from LinkedIn Research Network and Harris Interactive. The research included surveys of US advertisers and Internet users and found that while 83% of advertisers were familiar with the micro-blogging site, only 31% of Web users were.