OBGYN malpractice premiums are at most 17% of revenue. All OBGYNs run out close up and reopen as high pregnancy specialists. This makes them somewhat more lawsuit proof.

Then talk to an attorney. The average settlement, which is about 50% of the cases is less than $100,000.

Maternity care is a cost center because HMO's make it a cost center. Vaginal delivery you're out of the hospital in a day. Even churning the beds that rapidly can't make up for services you don't deliver and don't get paid for.

Silly me. All Bush all Iraq all neocon all anti Israel all the time. At least you've got a theme. What possibilities squandered by Salon. I recommend you go to a graphic novel format.

Oh a king. Sorry my bad.

I'd give it a C? Seems horribly disjoint and scribbly. Hard to pin down any theme. I do agree with the comments on the Dems who seem to confuse extremist namecalling with politics.

You can't track job cuts here correlated with creating a foreign subsidiary the goes out and employs their own people and then make an assumption about the direction of capital. All your tax would is cause me to rollup the revenues a different way. I would put overseas incorporation at or near the top of the list as well. And even if it weren't the same corporate entity all you'd manage to do to is create a retaliatory duty or cost addr. I wonder how many people would pay twice as much for an orange or a fish?

That is all.

Cost driven competition and all the players, where it is legal to do so, are in the same boat as it were, offshoring-wise. The fact is that job for job if my skills are the same or more or less the same as Rajiv in Bangalore then I really don't offer up any advantage. If you had two people of equal skill and ability, one in NYC and one in Sioux Falls which would you go with? Ergo a job in Winston Salem or a job in Malaysia, skill for skill job for job is a no brainer.

Detroit faced the same problem. Know what they did? Automated. The jobs went to robots. So today labor is only 8-9% of the total cost of production. Otherwise you'd be forced to buy either a $300,000 handmade car or a $4,500 Chinese death box.

The reason that jobs go away is because they are the wrong jobs to have here. You need to find a different job not another job. That's about skills and education. If you are a business owner then you really need to figure out how being here is a worthwhile proposition.

Where do get that it's libertarian to suggest that lower skill jobs or jobs which are portable go to where they cost less? It's like illegal immigration - would you like to pay $3 for a tomato? I'm not sure I would just to ensure that a farmer doesn't have to pay massive fines for employing illegals and instead employs Americans. See you want to look at everything the way I guess you were taught, as a class struggle. But it's not, no matter how hard Howard Zinn pimps that idea.

I just want to point out that the Dow Jones corporation is a closely held corporation that's more than 60% owned by one family. Seemingly the private nature of its holdings have no effect on this issue.

All I did was point out that your heroes, if anything, are as untroubled by 'law' justice. and decency as anyone else. But please please, go on. You amuse me with your snarling.

It was funny to watch in ZA a few years ago when Mandela was at the apotheosis of his influence and then it turned out that his wife was stealing from the government and had a hand in assassinating a few people as well. Public opinion was rather divided on it. Many people fummfummed and tried to distance themselves but an equal number of ANC partisans actually supported her under the rubric that, well, in a revolution, sometimes you just have to kill a few innocent people. These are the people who run ZA today. I guess 'rule of law' depends on who get to enforce the law.