Glitch in medical code threatens mental health care, therapists warn

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Click Here to Read:  Glitch in medical code threatens mental health care, therapists warn By JoNel Aleccia on the NBC News website on February 7, 2013,

Psychologist Marc Milhander, 54, says he’s weeks away of having to close his Niles, Mich., counseling center after delays and denials in insurance payments caused by an overhaul of treatment codes.

Eunuchs of the Universe: Tom Wolfe on Wall Street Today

Click Here to Read:   Eunuchs of the Universe: Tom Wolfe on Wall Street Today 3 As America teeters on a cliff, Tom Wolfe draws up a sterling indictment of our unscrupulous financial culture. Twenty-five years after Bonfire of the Vanities, the author returns to Wall Street to see what happened to the Masters of the Universe on the Daily Beast Website from Newsweek Magazine on January 4, 2013.

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HSBC’s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist

Click Here to Read:  HSBC’s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist.  Officials defend decision not to prosecute in money-laundering case despite HSBC’s ‘blatant failure’ to implement controls  Dominic Rushe in New York and Jill Treanor in London guardian.co.uk on the gaurdian.co.uk website on  December 11 , 2012.

Assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said taking away HSBC’s US banking licence could have cost thousands of jobs. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP