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United Healthcare has released the certification form they are requiring for religious employers wishing to remain exempt from the contraceptive mandate.
Go here for the form and United Healthcare's instructions on completing the form.
The Fifth Circuit panel that decided Ewing Construction Co. v. Amerisure Insurance Company did not get the same press that Justice Roberts and the SCOTUS opinion on Obamacare did this Summer, but it was just as wrong. Ewing v.
The City of Houston has set up a website for you to check your risk or potential need to evacuate in the event of a hurricane. Here's the report from Fox 26:
Congratulations to NASA for a job well done! Here is a very cool animation showing what this looked like. Perhaps, someday someone will give Curiosity a high five in person.
In this video Usain Bolt of Jamaica halts a television interview out of respect for the National Anthem of the United States. The television interviewer is a little bit shocked.
Americans are tired of kicking the immigration can down the road. Texas Republicans recently crafted The Texas Solution. The National Republican Party needs a similar solution and they need it now!
Fracking is big business in Texas and elsewhere. For many contractors, the fracking boom came along just in the nick of time as the recession set in. The intensity of gas drilling has turned many small burgs in Texas into booming energy towns. The insurance carriers have taken notice and that is not necessarily a good thing. Case in point Nationwide Insurance:
As we come up on the deadline to issue Medical Loss Ratio rebates (What are these? Where have you been? Go here!), we have calculated our average rebates among the carriers required to issue rebates. So far, United Healthcare and Humana have been the only small group carriers required to issue rebates in Texas.
Actually, it's just for women. As we reported here and here, August 1st, 2012, will mark the expansion of preventive care coverage to items like contraceptives, breast-pumps, and more (see full list below).
You know that sinking feeling when you realize you lost your wallet, or your wedding ring, or your favorite watch. Guess what? Olympic athletes feel your pain. From the WSJ: