WINDERMERE, Fla. - A woman was transported to hospital from Tiger Woods’ Florida home after firefighters responded to a medical call early Tuesday, NBC News reported.
According to Orlando-based WESH, the adult female was taken from the $2.6 million home “on advanced life support” after firefighters received a call at 2:36 a.m.
A radio log showed an adult female was transported to Health Central Hospital, WESH reported.
Footage obtained by WESH appeared to show a blond woman on a stretcher being attended to by emergency services.
Orange County Fire officials were unable to disclose further information about the incident.
Desi seems to be back blogging somewhat regularly (more than I’ve been anyway). The snarky, conceited beauty has been sorely missed by many and it’s great to “see” her back even if I’m not blog-rooled anymore sniff…sniff
At a committee hearing yesterday, three health-care specialists testified that insurers go to great lengths to avoid responsibility for sick people, use deliberately incomprehensible documents to mislead consumers about their benefits, and sell “junk” policies that do not cover needed care. Rockefeller said he was exploring “why consumers get such a raw deal from their insurance companies.”
Many Americans pay higher premiums for the freedom to go outside an insurer’s network of doctors and hospitals. When they do, insurers typically pay a percentage of what they call the “usual and customary” rates for the services. How insurers determine the usual rates had long been opaque to consumers and difficult if not impossible for them to challenge.
As it turns out, insurers typically used numbers from Ingenix, a wholly owned subsidiary of the big insurer UnitedHealth Group. Ingenix had an incentive to produce benchmarks that low-balled usual and customary rates and shifted costs from insurers to their customers, the report said.
Ingenix got its data from the same insurers that bought its benchmark information, the report said. Insurers that contributed information to Ingenix often “scrubbed” their data to remove high charges, and Ingenix further manipulated the numbers, removing valid high charges from its calculations, the report said.
This is why any congressman who defends insurance companies as useful or competitive are evil lying assholes..am I being too subtle? Why do our “elected representatives” continue to allow them to rob Americans? Why?
It is becoming all too clear to the Repugnican Party (and Fix’d Noise) that allowing the general public to wander around freely expressing their opinion can be detrimental; not only to Party loyalty, but to political power in general. Even Diane Feinstein who enjoys a certain Democratic cachet seems to be having doubts about giving the public even the shortest shrift these days…
The “party faithfull”, those willing to keep repeating the party line at ever increasing volume unil everyone with a brain and factual information get annoyed or bored or discouraged enough to just go away…well, they have basically decided to just stop listening. The increasingly crazy attacks (SSocialistts, Communists, Obama is scary, Be Afraid, Be very afraid…)
Marilyn Chambers, 56, the onetime Ivory Snow model who became the star of the pornographic film “Behind the Green Door,” a salacious sensation that helped hard-core movies find a mass audience and a measure of public acceptance, was found dead April 12 at her home in Santa Clarita, Calif.
Before her career in pornographic films, Ms. Chambers was an advertising model, and her girl-next-door face appeared on boxes of Ivory Snow detergent with the slogan “99 44/100 percent pure.”
She was not aware that “Behind the Green Door” was to be a hard-core film when she answered a casting call in San Francisco. She was about to leave when the film’s producers, brothers Jim and Artie Mitchell, persuaded her to stay. She negotiated a contract for $25,000, plus a percentage of the profits, which proved lucrative when the $60,000 film ended up earning $50 million.
“I’m just your basic girl next door,” she told the London Independent newspaper in 1999. “I’m naughty and I’m nice. And I love sex. I hope I die having sex.”
Marilyn Ann Briggs was born April 22, 1952, in Providence, R.I., and grew up in Westport, Conn. She was a diver, gymnast and cheerleader in high school and appeared in commercials for Clairol and Coca-Cola. At 18, she had a small role in the Barbra Streisand film “The Owl and the Pussycat” and was working as a bottomless dancer in San Francisco when she signed up for “Behind the Green Door,” adopting the last name of Chambers.
Ms. Chambers had problems with drugs and alcohol in the 1980s but always seemed to rebound. She landed a few small parts in movies, wrote a sex column in Club, a men’s magazine, and made a semi-serious stab at public office, running as the vice presidential candidate of the Personal Choice Party in 2004.
