So you have to pay $3,500 for laser eye surgery, $6000 for ceramic tooth implants because either you don’t have insurance or it’s not covered by it? You may not have to worry because your health provider might have a zero-interest financing plan. Such sales incentives familiar at car dealerships and furniture stores, has found it’s way to doctors’ and dentists’ offices reports the NYTimes.
The state of Mississippi has a 30.6 percent obesity rate says the Trust for America’s Health in their 2007 Obesity Report. Trailing Mississippi is West Virginia at 2nd, Alabama at 3rd, Louisiana at 4th, and South Carolina and Tennessee which are tied for fifth place. And coming in at absolute last place is Colorado with only a 17.69 percent obesity rate. But don’t count Colorado as a light weight, 54.2 percent of their population is overweight. They are capable of reaching the top 5 at anytime.
According to this article, California Inmates can receive even better Health Care than more than the 6.5 non-inmate Californians. And according to this report, that’s more than 20 percent of the non-elderly population.
Due to a federal take over of the prison medical system in California, the new man in charge, Robert Sillen threatened to “back up the Brink’s truck” to the state’s treasury, if need be, to finance better medical services for the states’s 173,000 inmates.
According to TechCrunch, Facebook is planning a new advertising system that will target ad delivery based on user profiles added by its users.
And if you’re on Facebook, you know that you can find tons of information willingly posted by users about themselves. This is a direct marketers dream and Facebook is about to cash in on it big time, even more than MySpace who uses Google for a small fraction of 1 cent CPM. According to the same article, Facebook is charging around $10 CPM.
According to TechCrunch, if this ad delivery system delivers, it could very well become the next Adwords.
According to this FTC.gov release, a Phoenix, Arizona based Boiler Room Operation, The Results Group, L.L.C. and its co-owners are banned from telemarketing and will have their assets liquidated to pay off the consumers they ripped off.
In the FTC complaint, it is charged that the defendants misrepresented that consumers who purchased their business system were likely to earn a substantial income with little risk, and that they would receive substantial assistance from a staff of business experts. They claimed that some of their purchasers were making over $50,000 per month in commissions. In fact, most consumers never earned any income.
As per this link, the 500 largest U.S. Hispanic-owned companies in the country, as determined by Hispanic Business magazine, reported total revenues of $36.3 billion this year, an increase of 4.2 percent compared to the year before.
Here we list the top 10 companies in this list.
As reported here and on TechCrunch, Google has acquired a stake in Chinese portal Tianya.cn.
According to this Wikipedia article, the Tianya Club is one of the most popular Internet forums in China. It was founded in Feb 14, 1999. Politicians have used Tianya Club to campaign, answer questions from constituents, and gather grassroots support.
So, not only is it a major Chinese online player, it’s used by Chinese politicians for campaigning. You would think after all the problems Yahoo and Google had with Chinese Internet censorship, that they would stear clear of the Politics?
In the August 12, 2007 NYTimes article, a Dr. Timothy Lepore is profiled as the Jack of All Trades Medical fixit guy in the city of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Described as Nantucket’s only surgeon, he’s also the Nantucket’s medical examiner, school physician, football team doctor, Lyme disease expert and identifier of excavated Indian bones.
Real Estate Queen, Leona Helmsley who with her husband ran a $5 billion empire that included managing the Empire State Building died of heart failure today at her summer home in Greenwhich, Conn. Check out the all the New York, NY Helmsley listings right here.