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...CareOne, a for-profit company (customers pay a monthly fee) based in Columbia, Md., got 65,000 calls seeking help in January and 64,000 in February. Those numbers are up more than 15% from a year ago, Croxson said, but the really dramatic changes are in the composition of the callers. What happens after the call? The traditional solution in the credit-counseling business has been the debt-management plan, a three-to-five-year repayment schedule with the terms largely dictated by the creditors. Lots of debtors today are in so deep, though, they can't afford those...
...most controversial legislation considered at the meeting was the “Get Out of Cambridge” Endorsement Act—which centered on whether the Council should provide funding for a for-profit student business...
...can’t Harvard act more like “Big Pharma”? Ordinarily, it would seem strange to push Harvard to follow the lead of a for-profit corporation like GSK. The influence of pharmaceutical companies at universities is a controversial topic. We are often rightly cautioned that becoming too closely tied with industry may lead us to lose sight of our public interest mission. Yet when a major pharmaceutical company takes the lead in promoting access to medicines in developing countries, following Big Pharma would bring us more in line with our own core values...
...During his time at Alston, a wide range of for-profit enterprises with interests in influencing government health policy - including giants like UnitedHealth, GE Healthcare and the Health Industry Distributors Association - paid Daschle five-figure sums for speeches. UnitedHealth was also a "client" of Daschle's at Alston, as was the Great Plains Indian Gaming Association, a trade group representing tribes with casinos in the upper Midwest. And then there is Leo Hindery Jr., the former chairman of the cable-television industry's lobbying group, who hired Daschle as an adviser on a new investment firm and gifted him more...
...insanity of busing our own trays at McDonald's: "McDonald's is not a public park where we all need to pitch in to preserve 'the commons.' It's a private, for-profit establishment out to make money. The so-called market should take care of it. They just need to hire more people to keep the place spic-and-span, or else have customers vote for Burger King with their feet. Perhaps it was part of a secret plot: Hire fewer people in order to put pressure on the customer to look after his own garbage. At first folks...