Today with our assistance our Japanese client SGI held a Symposium at the United States Institute of Peace entitled: Making a Difference Faith: Based groups and the Humanitarian Impact of nuclear weapons. Since 1957 SGI which is an 8 million member lay Buddhist organization in Japan has promoted the abolition of nuclear wepaons. Eleven different…
Broydrick and Associates is organizing the Coalition for Liver Allocation Fairness. This coalition will consist of a group of liver transplant programs around the country that are being threatened with punishment for their high rate of organ donation by having their harvested organs shipped to a very few programs especially those in California. More on…
The New England Journal of Medicine has published an article concerning Cologuard the new test developed by our client Exact Sciences. It shows that in a 10,500 82 site nationwide study that this non-invasive test found 92% of cancer and more than half of the pre-cancer larger than 2 centimeters. On March 26, Cologuard will be…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s all hope that 2014 is one of prosperity and good will. That Democrats and Republicans find common ground. My goal for 2014 is to be a better servant to all of our clients. Bill Broydrick
Paul Ryan is being attacked because he included some minor changes in military pensions in his successful effort to pass a budget resolution. Ryan is correct. Military retirees who are under 62 invariably (unless disabled) are perfectly capable of being employed and virtually all are employed. Yes , they received a pension for twenty years…
I really believe in Universal Healthcare and I really want President Obama to succeed in his efforts to achieve that goal…but apparently the IRS has taken the position that volunteer firefighters (even though they are volunteers) must be considered “employees” for purposes for purposes of the ACA and therefore even provided coverage or their fire…
My wish for 2014 that we concentrate our political discourse on the merits of public policy—not irrelevant personal matters, not on process but on ideas.
I am reading Scott Walker’s book and it is very well written and easy to read. But one of themes is puzzling to me. He argues that collective bargaining needed to eliminated because of the specifics of union contracts which allow “abuses.” On the basis of poor bargaining by the public sector he argues we…
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Section 1251 of the Affordable Care Act does say you can keep your health care through as a “grandfathered plan” eliminating many of the ACA’s requirements. But the Department of Health and Human Services wrote a rule that undermines the ability of an insurer to really keep a plan grandfathered. The solution is breathtakingly simple:…