Well, Steve Lohr of The New York Times recently wrote about how researchers can draw “romantic insights from maps of Facebook networks.” Apparently, “[i]t’s not in the stars after all. Instead, it seems, the shape of a person’s social network is a powerful signal that can identify one’s spouse or romantic partner — and even if a relationship is likely to break up.”
This is a fascinating study, but is there any other evidence that a party can know about a breakup ahead of time?
Oh yeah, almost forgot: Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye of NBC News recently broke the story that the Obama Administration has known “for at least three years” that people would be forced to part ways with their healthcare plan.
Somewhere between “50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a ‘cancellation’ letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law,” wrote Myers and Rappleye.
This unwanted “breakup” is not fair to the American people who were promised that they’d be able to keep their preferred insurance plan.
The authors cite several examples of people who are “perfectly happy” with their current plan, and are outraged that the rug is being pulled out from under them.
The Affordable Care Act seems to have a new mess every day. The law is simply too massive, complicated, and expensive to function properly.