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Obama Care Distortions to ring in the New Year – before you want to ring someone’s neck.You could lose your health care policy because it is sub-par even though it’s a good policy.And you could have signed up – but those first few days of January you might not be able to go to the doctor.Or you could get hit with a 55-thousand dollar hospital bill for appendicitis.  You will have to hear this to believe it.  But you will understand the screwed medical delivery system in our country – the same one our esteemed and paid off speaker of the house calls the greatest. It is Tuesday, December 31, 2013 – coming to you from Sunset Beach, NC.Our Informed Not Inflamed Health Care expert is Michelle Katz.  She is a nurse, patient advocate, and a blogger.You can catch Michelle on ABC News as a health contributor.  Her website is health care hacker dot-org.  She comes to us from Southern California.

It’s our final weekly NFL regular season preview.We look at the playoff implications.Issues we’ll touch on. Arizona Cardinals could finish with 10-wins and sit out the playoffs while an 8-win team goes.  Do we need some changes here? And could the NFL come to Las Vegas? We’ll talk a little inside Vegas politics and inside football.We’re looking ahead to the final week of the NFL regular season -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder. He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. He comes to us from the gambling capital of the world – Las Vegas -- today.This is nerdy inside football stuff.  It reminds me of primary night in politics.  Election night is the Super Bowl – which is easy compared to primary night.  Primary night is a ton of info and numbers -- that takes a while to get through.  So let’s get into the weeds here, my friend.

Today we look at today’s games and the playoff implications. Cards vs. 49ers. Panthers hosting Saints. Patriots and the Ravens. Plus Colts and Chiefs.  And will the Cowboys choke again in December.Issues we’ll touch on. How do you keep all these playoff possibilities straight? Gruden to Austin? Seahawks-49ers fans getting feisty good. And sure you want a white Christmas but a white Super Bowl?We’re looking ahead to the NFL Week 15 -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder. He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. 

 It’s our weekly NFL preview. It’s week 15Today we look at these games:Cowboys-Packers, Pats-Dolphins. Panthers-Jets. Saints-Rams. 49ers-Bucs. Ravens-Lions.Issues we’ll touch on. RG-3 Shanahan controversy. And Mack Brown retiring from the Longhorns. And the exhumation of the body of Jovan Belcher.We’re looking ahead to the NFL Week 15 -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder – who was a Texas Longhorn.  He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. He comes to us from Las Vegas.

It’s our weekly NFL preview. It’s week 14Today we look at these games:Pats-Browns. Seahawks-49ers. Saints-Panthers. Cowboys-Bears.Issues we’ll touch on. The firing of Gary Kubiak.  Tebow going to Italy. Reaction to Tomlin fine. My bias against dome teams.We’re looking ahead to the NFL Week 14 -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder.  He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. He comes to us from Las Vegas.

I want to introduce you to a new form of news network – that I use and I am a part of. It’s called The Breaking News Network.  Check it out at www.TheBreakingNewsNetwork.com.You will see the best media and blog feeds from 350 different US cities. But The Breaking News Network is more than just news. It’s branding for your company and it is also helping the social good. The creator is Patrick Kitano.  Patrick is an entrepreneur in the technology and financial fields.  He is also a friend and colleague. Patrick comes to us from San Francisco.  Patrick, welcome. For disclosure’s sake: Patrick and I – along with my business partner Susan Anzalone in NOWtv – are working on a number of projects, some of which we will discuss here today. Patrick, before we get into some of those, let’s introduce people to what The Breaking News Network is.  It is called the largest hyper-local network in the US.  What do you mean by hyper-local? Why is this needed?  Is this replacing or complementing newsrooms?  How can we news cons

OK, I’m conservative.  No wait I’m liberal.  Huh?  Maybe I’m libertarian.This is the funny, much contrived, and funny conversation I have with myself – when people who try to label me.It get this a lot.A friend who identifies with the Republican Party will say to me, “you are so liberal.”A half-hour later, a friend who leans Democrat says, “you are such a conservative.”When I tell another friend about those two earlier conversations, that friend says, “you’re a libertarian.”And although I agree with Ron and Rand Paul on some things – I am no follower.In fact, I follow no one.Now, I love these reactions.  It means I am waking up people.  But granted, I like to challenge my friends’ beliefs – and see where they really stand.And that’s what you should be doing.  But if you say to someone, “you are so liberal” or “Good God, you’re conservative” and you leave it there – most times you are trying to divide or denigrate someone – who doesn’t believe what you believe.

I have a confession.  I sometimes post on social media just to see the diversity of reactions.  I consider it testing for Informed Not Inflamed.Check out my Facebook page on Sunday night December 1st for my latest test. I posted an article about Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s remarks -- opposing Obamacare. Primarily, he – and the Church – are against businesses being forced to push no-cost contraception – something Catholic institutions would be against – due to Catholic teachings – in the health care policies they have to offer now under Obamacare.I said that Dolan’s remarks defied logic. I wrote:So you’re against abortion.  Ok.  But you’re against contraception too?  Talk about either/or stupidity.  You want to believe it, fine. We don’t.  We want a reasonable society.Someone said that seemed a little inflamed, on my part.  Maybe so.  I would consider it impassioned – as were the responses.The most impassioned were for those in favor of Cardinal Dolan and the Catholic Church position.One person wrote it is about

When it comes to foreign policy – Americans are speaking out quietly and loudly. Unfortunately, our political leaders and the media elite seem to be listening to foreign money – and not us.Here’s what we’re saying.  We have had enough.  Look at the reaction to these recent events:The interim nuke deal with Iran.The US reaction to the Syrian chemical attack.Now look at the polls.  The most recent was the Reuters poll a week ago.  By 2-to-1 Americans are in favor it.Here’s what I am hearing from folks that seems to confirm the polls:It’s these 3 simple things:We’re tired of war. Take care of your own mess.  We’re going to get to work and make money now.

It’s our NFL weekly preview. It’s week 13Today we look at these games:Pats-Texans. Saints-Seahawks. Chiefs-Broncos. 9ers-Rams.Issues we’ll touch on. Is Gruden going to the Raiders.  Who is moving to LA? And did last week’s LSU-Texas A-&-M game change the NFL Draft next spring.We’re looking ahead to the NFL Week 13 -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder.  He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. He comes to us from Las Vegas.

The Panthers seem real.  The overlooked game of the week.  And Pats and Broncos seems like an AFC preview or is it? And the potty mouthed ref.We’re looking ahead to the NFL Week 12 -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder.  He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. 

Michael Horowicz, a TV colleague of John Daly's, tells the story of his father who made the famous pink suit that Jackie Kennedy wore on that infamous day November 22, 1963.  Here is Michael's story in the Daily Beast.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/21/my-father-made-jackie-s-pink-suit.html

Kids HungerDo you know how many school kids go hungry each day in America?Do you know how many school kids are on federally subsidized meals at school?The numbers will stagger you and embarrass you.Hi folks.  It is DAY AND DATE.  Coming to you from LOCATIONThere is a program nationally that is trying to help these kids.It’s called Blessings in a Backpack.It provides elementary schoolchildren -- who are on the federal Free and Reduced Price Meal Program -- with a backpack of food to take home for 38 weekends during the school year.It’s something you can do in your area.

We’re talking Obamacare Distortions again.  The web page screw ups have led to more political wrangling that only helps politicians on both sides of the aisle raise money, while leaving many Americans scratching their heads.Michelle Katz is our health expert.  She is a nurse, blogger, and patient advocate among other things.  Her website is health care hacker dot-org.  She comes to us from Southern California.We will avoid the politics of this and get to – what people need to know and what to do.First, cancellations went out because current or old policies did not meet the requirements of the new Affordable Care Act. People could still get a policy – on the exchanges -- that will be better but not necessarily cheaper or more expensive.  The problem is getting on the website to get to those newer policies.

Are the Chiefs and Panthers for real? Big name trade rumors.  And the latest on the Martin Dolphins investigation.We’re looking ahead to the NFL Week 11 -- with our Informed Not Inflamed Football Insider Eric Snyder.  He’s on the Power Hour with J T The Brick and Paulie on 920 AM in Vegas. 

We’re focusing too much on investor value and not on American value – or jobs.Two stories might prove this.  First, the Affordable Care Act.  Sure, it is a debacle. But it was a debacle from the start when the Obama Administration made a deal with the health insurance industry.  They make profits.  Cutting costs for them does not lead to profits.  Thus you see policies being cancelled.  It was inevitable.The second story is the merger of American and US Air.  The new airline will be the biggest in the world.  DOJ forced the new airline to give up some routes so there would be more competition.  The truth is the airline stocks soared.  What we haven’t seen yet – are job layoffs and increased fares for travelers.  Granted, DOJ had no real case to stop the merger – because of the precedents set with United and Delta mega-mergers before. The system is gamed against workers – and entirely for the investor – because of big corporate and special interest money.Our informed Not Inflamed financial expert – Hugh Anders

We are going to the dogs today with John O'Hurley, actor, singer, comedian on TV, in film, and on stage.  And he’s an author and composer.  You know him as J Peterman from Seinfeld.  You saw him on Dancing with the Stars.  But he also hosts the National Dog Show that comes up on Thanksgiving Day.  Plus he has another book coming out about dogs.  Let’s say hello to John O’Hurley.

Informed Not Inflamed's NFL Insider is Eric Snyder.  He'll talk about what's coming up Sunday.  Are the Chiefs that good?  Is Nick Foles for real?  And is Incognito now a verb?

I know I am a broken record at times.  But most of us don’t realize that the solutions to our fiscal and debt problems are already laid out. It’s called the Simpson Bowles Plan.  The official name is National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  Google Simpson Bowles PDF and you can read it there. The Commission was headed up by former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and former Democratic White House advisor Erskine Bowles. It lays out a plan for spending, taxes, and entitlement reform.  Since most politicians won’t pay attention to it – because it will hurt many special interest groups – it is up to the people to push for this. It is essential to our survival as a country. And it will help us all individually too – in the long run. Let’s bring in our Informed Not Inflamed financial expert Hugh Anderson – coming to us from Las Vegas. Hugh is with High Tower Las Vegas, a financial consulting firm.

The city of Boston celebrated the Red Sox world series win with the traditional parade through the city.  The Duck Boats took the players around as millions came out. But the team also stopped and paid homage to the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing back in April – by placing the trophy at the finish line.  I tweeted. Not a dry eye in New England. This is what we call Red Sox Nation.  So what is Red Sox Nation really? Bobby Donlan is a member of Red Sox nation – officially.  He lives in Atlanta.  He is part owner of one of my favorite restaurants New York Prime – in Atlanta.  He is originally from Massachusetts and a graduate of UMass.  He is talking to us from Atlanta.Greg Pearson has written the book, Fenway Fanatics: 50 Boston Red Sox Fans Tell Their Stories.  It’s a great Christmas gift