Category: Medical

Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Dish, and Verizon all want the FCC to force the media companies to stop pulling their channels during negotiations or disputes, removing their main bargaining chip from the table. The AP says fourteen companies and a consumer group made the request. Absent, of course, was Comcast which may soon become owner of one of the networks that may be threatening to pull its programming soon. Guess that gives you an idea of what to expect should the merger go through, huh? Should The Government Stop Companies From Pulling Their Channels?polling Cable, sat TV firms ask gov’t…

The same crappy weather that has Wendy’s declaring a only-if-you-ask-for-them tomato policy has made Tropicana pull out ye olde Grocery Shrink Ray, reducing their half-gallon Pure Premium OJ jugs by 5 oz. to 59 oz. In addition to shrinking the half gallon to a half-ish gallon, Tropicana is going to raise the price of the gallon-size Pure Premium containers by 5%-8%. We’re assuming the gallon will still be 128 oz. The reduced size/increased prices will begin in May. “We have now fully reviewed the extraordinary losses that the Florida citrus industry has suffered — the most devastating winter freeze and…

Sudden unemployment can really help you think creatively. The OC Register has a profile of a guy who lost his condo after being laid off from his 6-figure corporate development job — and is now living out of his leased BMW and a storage unit — and using his rewards points to survive. “I’m not going to claim I was cheated out of my house,” Kennedy says several times. “I didn’t pay my mortgage.” Now the former frequent flier from his days working in IT and finance is living off those rewards – airline loyalty programs and hotel points. His…